mruffruff - I see your point. However for my area, and the hospital I work at, both price comparisons were high.

DianeSnizzy - Getting a cat to take a pill can be easy or difficult depending on the cat. I can't be sure what I do with mine will work for all cats, or all people for that matter but here's what I do. Ya gotta get a visual picture of how dingy I look doing this ROFL

Have the pill in your fingers before you even start. I get on the floor on my knees with my ankles crossed and my rear touching my heels. This odd position allows me to keep the cat between my knees so it can't back up, go right or go left, and limits the cat's ability to escape, since my cat's don't often give me a second chance. lol

Once I have the cat cornered there (not necessarily squeezing if it's not fighting me), then I place my hand over the cats head with my thumb and middle fingers at the corners of the cats mouth, this also effectively keeps the head from thrashing. Push in until the cat opens it's mouth.

Once open slightly I use my middle finger of the other hand to gently lower the jaw enough I can slip in the pill that is held between my thumb and index finger of the same hand I opened the jaw with. Gently poke the pill back quite far into the cats mouth but quickly. (my cats usually try to gag and spit rather than close the mouth on me).

Once the pill is in, slide the hand that was holding the head around and underneath to then hold the mouth closed, and head in an upright position. Using your other hand gently rub the cats throat to encourage swallowing. Once you either see the cat swallow or it's been long enough to think it may have swallowed, then release head. DON'T LET THE CAT GO YET! You don't want to have to go catch her again, or have her spit the pill out where you can't see her.

Watch cat closely to see if it seems like she's chewing or trying to spit the pill out. Try again if she spits it out. This does take some practice and a little flexibility on your part to use this method, having longer legs also helps with this method. If after a couple times you still can't get it down her, let her go and give her a break, then lots of attention before you try again, otherwise your kitty might just become a tiger.

I've used this method on very fussy/aggressive cats in our hospital with good success. I've even gotten so I can pill cats better than the boss!! Dogs are another story though!!! LOL

Good Luck