How To Give A Cat Liquid Medicine By Mouth

Gently restrain the cat and put the syringe without a needle into the side of hisher mouth.

How to give a cat liquid medicine by mouth. Push the plunger on the pilling device with your thumb or index finger to deposit the pill far back in the cats mouth. Begin by subtly emptying the contents of the syringe into the cats mouth until heshe takes everything. Fill the dropper or syringe with the prescribed amount of medicine. To try this hold your cats head with your non dominant handwith the cats ears under your thumb and index finger.

Do not tilt your cats head back. Some cat pillers have a dual purpose and can dispense pills or liquid medicine. Then open you cats mouth by gently pressing on the sides of its mouth with your thumb and forefinger. You do this in much the same way as with a pill.

This may cause him to inhale the medicine. The medication is quickly squirted into this pouch the mouth is held closed and the neck stroked or the nose sharply blown on to encourage the cat to swallow. How to syringe feed a cat. The easiest way to give your cat liquid medication is to mix it in with some canned food.

To give your cat liquid medicine start by wrapping a towel around its body so that it cant wiggle or escape as you give it the medication. Shoot some of the juice out the tip of the syringe so your cat can quickly take a liking to the taste. To ensure that your cat swallows all of the medication it is best to mix it into a small amount of canned food that you feed by hand rather than mixing it into a full bowl of food that the cat may not completely eat. Holding your cats head still with one hand insert the tip of the dropper or syringe into a corner of the mouth between the cheek and the teeth aiming toward the back of your cats head.

You try to open the cats mouth and give the dropperful of medication directly to the cat.