Angel Poppy - was My Poppy has cancer

[phesina]

Would a pill pocket work for her?

What I did with Zoe was crush the tablet and mix it with some water. Then I drew that up into a syringe and slowly squirted it into her mouth.

Thanks for the suggestion, Candace, and Heidi!

This evening I crushed a Mirtazapine appetite stimulant tablet and dissolved it in about 1ml of water, gave her a squirt of that this evening. She isn't crazy about the squirts (the Prednisolone suspension is also 1ml of squirts).. but she sure finds that less awful than my trying to stuff a pill down her throat! I usually divide the Pred into 2 .5ml squirts, which I may also do with the Mirtazapine.

I've been doing this for a long time with Sparkler's Gabapentin that she gets 1/2 capsule of 3 times each day. I dissolve the capsule contents in about 2ml of Chicken Broth! (vet's suggestion, which she seems to like enough that she comes out to get her squirts!), then make 2 servings of 1ml each. sometime the whole 1ml in one of those 3ml syringes, otherwise 2 .5ml squirts each in a 1ml syringe.

[phesina]

It doesn't seem to be going real well, dissolving the mirtazapine pill in water and syringe-squirting it down her throat.. she does not like that! I pet her and gently rubbed her throat and talked to her afterwards, and I thought she'd swallowed it all. Then I found a few spots on the rug where she'd managed to spit some out.

I don't know how well all this is going. She doesn't have much of an appetite now, even with the Mirtazapine. She doesn't give any indication of being in pain. She is still breathing steadily, and when I lie my head against her side and pet her in a couple of places, she purrrs away.

[cats4ever]

It doesn't seem to be going real well, dissolving the mirtazapine pill in water and syringe-squirting it down her throat.. she does not like that! I pet her and gently rubbed her throat and talked to her afterwards, and I thought she'd swallowed it all. Then I found a few spots on the rug where she'd managed to spit some out.

I don't know how well all this is going. She doesn't have much of an appetite now, even with the Mirtazapine. She doesn't give any indication of being in pain. She is still breathing steadily, and when I lie my head against her side and pet her in a couple of places, she purrrs away.

Pat, I'm sorry that giving the medications is somewhat difficult. Kitties are famous for being troublemakers in that regard.
Since her appetite hasn't improved, make sure you watch her weight.
I'm glad that her breathing is ok. You are doing an excellent job taking care of Poppy.
Love and headbumpies from Heidi and the kitties

[tatsxxx11]

You know I'm thinking of you and Poppy every day, Pat. I know it's so hard on you, emotionally, and we all can relate to how difficult it can be to medicate them. But how lucky your beautiful girl is, having you as her devoted mom. You truly are her hero.

[cassiesmom]

You know I'm thinking of you and Poppy every day, Pat.

I am too

[phesina]

Thank you, Heidi and Sandra and Elyse, from Poppy and me (and Sparkler too, of course).

[phesina]

I wonder if she'd like the Mirtazapine dissolved in chicken broth! (I wonder if chicken broth would interact badly with the Mirtazapine...)

Sparkler comes out to get her Gabapentin-in-chicken-broth squirts!