(, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 22:47, archived)
I feel the need to (again) point out that you're part of the reason we ended up with our little self-entitled fuzzy bastard of a cat.

Thanks ;)
(, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 23:04,
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Thanks ;)
Our little bastard is now a little bastard with a thyroid and kidney problem.
£30/month supply of tablets and has to have medicated food (£20/2kg), neither of which she'll eat without a fight.
(, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 23:08,
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£30/month supply of tablets and has to have medicated food (£20/2kg), neither of which she'll eat without a fight.
The thyroid problem happened with one of our cats, ages back. Each day was a fight to cover the tablet in something she'd eat. Unfortunately she was the smartest cat we've ever had, and quickly learned that the food she got in the mornings/evenings that the other cats didn't was some unpleasant lump covered in gorgeous pate. So she'd lick the pate off/chew the chicken slice off/EAT THE WHOLE THING AND THEN SICK UP THE TABLET and not take her medicine. Damned smart, beautiful cat; had to make it hard for us.
Good luck finding a way of getting her to eat the stuff. We found pate still worked best in the end, but there might be better ways...
(, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 23:14,
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Good luck finding a way of getting her to eat the stuff. We found pate still worked best in the end, but there might be better ways...
or when she's wrapped in a towel and my arms are torn to shreds.
Then once every 3/4 days she'll eat it in her dry food without a second thought.
(, Sun 24 Apr 2011, 0:04,
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Then once every 3/4 days she'll eat it in her dry food without a second thought.
You have my sympathies, one of my cats is a fat grubber and eats whatever medication he has to take if you hide it under a pile of dry food in your hand. The other one however could probably detect a single medication molecule in an ocean of pate and would snub it.
(, Sun 24 Apr 2011, 8:00,
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And I'm sorry to hear that. Getting cats to take any form of medication is never an easy task. :/
(, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 23:15,
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The legislation for vetinary medicine was changed a few years ago to try to loosen the grip vets had on both prescribing and supplying drugs for animals. It didn't really work.
Let's just say that speaking as a pharmacist, private prescriptions for animals are even more of a pain in the arse than private prescriptions for humans, but even so... if you can persuade your vet to write a private prescription and take it to a pharmacy, you'll probably pay a lot less for the drugs themselves.* But the vet will probably be really fucked off that you've twigged that, and ramp up his fees instead.
* I am talking about thyroid medication here, by the way, specifically levothyroxine (which is dirt cheap). I've done prescriptions for one or two diabetic cats in the past, some of the stuff they get prescribed is more expensive.
(, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 23:58,
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Let's just say that speaking as a pharmacist, private prescriptions for animals are even more of a pain in the arse than private prescriptions for humans, but even so... if you can persuade your vet to write a private prescription and take it to a pharmacy, you'll probably pay a lot less for the drugs themselves.* But the vet will probably be really fucked off that you've twigged that, and ramp up his fees instead.
* I am talking about thyroid medication here, by the way, specifically levothyroxine (which is dirt cheap). I've done prescriptions for one or two diabetic cats in the past, some of the stuff they get prescribed is more expensive.
I am a cat-hater who is allergic to cats, so I'm probably going to agree with you there, but I am fully aware that I'm quite biased.
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(, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 22:52, archived)
muhahahahaaaaa!!!

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