Wow you really had your hands full with Garbo. The way I give pills is you take the cat by the scruff of the neck (like a Momma cat does with her kittens) and this kinda makes them immobile. You can open their mouths fairly easy and hopefully drop the pill into their mouths. Let go and massage their throats and they hopefully will swallow the pill. This has worked for me. I have to give Spencer Tagament really often since he has an upset stomach a lot. This is a pretty trickey procedure - if the pill doesn't go down and the cat doesn't swallow properly - you got a real problem, frothey cat!!! and watch out for those back feet claws!!!!!