Two person method - how to pill a strong cat

Make sure cat is hungry.

One person lies in bed and does NOT think about pilling (This is important as cat will read mind).

Other person (dad) slowly closes all doors to rooms with big furniture where cat could hide under. Goes to kitchen and starts to clean the bowls (which in this household means: breakfast time). Cat is in kitchen now.

Other person, still NOT thinking of pilling comes down and walks leisurely in the kitchen. Takes liver pate from fridge.

Dad closes kitchen door. Cat is still a little "nipped" by smell of liver pate.

Put 1,5 pills (1/2 antibiotics, 1 pred) in little dollop of pate. Cover with more pate.

Dad puts garden gloves on, corners cat and keeps cat down. Opens mouth. I put the dollop pate on the end of a long icecream spoon. Put it in mouth. Dad closes mouth and begins to massage throat until cat swallows a least two times. Then favorite dry treats are server. Cat swallows more times

If done properly, this does take less than one minute.

I checked the pill popper we bought yesterday with artificial sweetener tablets (and without cat ). I noticed that it did not popp very well- sometimes the tablets fell out of the sides and as we have to give him a half of antibiotics I could anyway not fit that in. But the long and thin end of the icecream spoon worked very well. In addition Tigris didn't think the liver pate itself was too bad and while he was being pilled Filou went up and ate pate