How To Give A Cat Liquid Medicine With A Syringe

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How to give a cat liquid medicine with a syringe. With your other hand gently insert the dropper or syringe into your cats mouth by their cheek. Use one hand to gently but firmly hold your cat under the chin. 4 if youre not sure which technique to use talk to your veterinarian. After the syringe is in this corner of the mouth position the medicine can slowly be dispensed as the cat swallows the medicine.

If your cat is not interested in licking the liquid gently take the cat by the scruff of the neck and pull the head back as shown in the illustration. 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. With a syringe draw up the required medicine dosage for your pet and empty that into another clean cup. Draw some of the juice you kept in the first cup into the syringe while making a mental note to keep enough syringe space for the liquid medicine too.

Squeeze the dropper or depress the plunger to administer the medicine directly into your cats mouth aiming to deposit the liquid near the back of your cats tongue. Liquid medications should come with a dropper or syringe for administration. Its worth noting that some veterinarians suggest trying to give liquid medicine without tilting your cats head up. Today i will be showing you guys how to safely and easily give a cat liquid medication from a syringe.

Fill the dropper or syringe with the prescribed amount of medicine. Go for the liquid medicine next and draw some of it into the same syringe. A quick search on the internet will tell you that the best way to give a cat liquid medicine is to fill an oral syringe with the proper amount and place the syringe gently into the side of the cats mouth and work it back up into the corner of the cats mouth. Pick up the syringe in your free hand and rest the hub of the syringe the open end just behind the cats lower fangs the long teeth at the front of the lower jaw angled over the tongue.

First allow the cat to lick the medication from the tip of the syringe as you slowly depress the plunger many cats accept medication more readily if it is warmed to room temperature.