right we've got Milly here and today I'm going to show you how I'm going to worm
her and the best way to give your cat a pill by yourself first time
every time Hi, I'm dr. Alex from ourpetshealth.com helping you and your pet
to live a healthier happier life this is Milly and so she's due her worming
tablet and so I thought I'd show you how I go about giving that so I'm gonna try
and give you kind of my perspective as well which is why I'm wearing this
camera and we'll see how we get on so the first thing is is that we can have a
couple of different types of tablets so we've got one tablet here that's wormer
and we've got another much smaller one here and that's the first thing is to
make your life easy certainly if you've got a cat who's difficult to tablet is
to use maybe a smaller tablet it'll just make your life that much easier so
that's the first thing you can do right the next thing we can do now bear in
mind that I'm left-handed is that we can get her sitting down here and then what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab her head like this and I'm gonna lift her head up
to the ceiling so if you do that yourself it just means that it's harder
for you to close your mouth and it's the same with her and then what we're going
to do is we're gonna try and put that tablet right on the back of her tongue
that's gonna cause her to swallow before she knows what she's doing is just
stimulating that swallowing reflex and she's gonna take that tablet really
nicely so we'll go for the smaller one shall we so what we're gonna do
is we're going to just grab her behind the back of her head like this we're going
to lift it up and we're gonna open her mouth so I just use one finger to open
her mouth and then just pop it drop it and poke it down with my finger
and this as easy as that and she's just had that worming tablet really nicely
is we're going to just grab her behind the back of her head like this we're
going to lift it up then we're going to open her mouth so I just use one finger
to open her mouth and then just pop it drop it right down poke it down with my
finger and it's as easy as that and she's just had that worming tablet
really nicely okay so now we've got Molly here so Molly and Milly are
sisters so they're probably about they must be close to 18 months old now
they're fantastic cats yeah Molly is probably the one who likes a little bit
more attention you can't hear it now but she is actually purring and so we're
going to do the same thing so just going to turn her to face my left side because
I'm left-handed I'm gonna put my hand behind the back of
her head like that we'll just move her a little bit in there a little bit like
that okay and then we're gonna lift her head up to the ground I'm going to use
the bigger tablet just to prove that that's absolutely fine as well so with
my middle finger I'm just gonna open up her mouth I'm gonna drop that down into
the bottom of her throat and there we go she swallowed that okay so I hope that
helps you give your cat a tablet really nicely see she doesn't seem too bothered
now does she so yeah give the give the tablet first time every time
that's really ideal if you do it that way it's really low stress they don't
really know what's happening they don't mind at all and yeah you certainly won't
end up covered in scratches either it can help if you've got another pair of
hands just you can have them behind the cat holding on to their front legs it
just helps them not reach up with their claws and scratch you and just stops
them reversing away so definitely having two people is it's helpful but yeah
certainly we can always tablet our cats with just one one of us as well now
there are a number of other strategies that we can use to medicate cats to give
them pills and I've got another video planned coming up all about that so make
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I'm dr. Alex from our pets health because they're family