Tasty, smarter way to help your dog’s medicine go down at treatment time—without trying to hide pills in human food like messy peanut butter or cheese Before you start giving your cat pills, build up a positive daily routine with them. At the time you want to give the pill, provide a tasty treat that your cat will look forward to. Do this for several days before introducing the pill into the food.

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I don’t use much, a blob the size of two pieces of kibble once a month to once a week if the cats are coughing a lot, and things all go down a lot easier that way.Kitten pate is specially formulated to be ridiculously tasty to cats, and in my experience, all my adult cats go absolutely bananas for it. Great tips here for cat owners, I know when I had mine if I had to give them a pill I used to have to hide it and stand over them Reply

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You simply put the pills inside the cap, close it, and then you either hide in the food or give it by hand. I have never had to give our cats pills, but I can imagine it would be a challenge. These are great tips and good to know! Reply I know if I had to, I could use petroleum jelly to mask medicine because of how much my cats like it. Unless your cat decides to eat the pill on her own (highly unlikely,) you’ll have to give the tablet by hand. There are a few issues with the two options you’ve listed, which I’ll go over first. One of the two is viable if you do it in a specific way, but I’ll get into that in detail.

Another bad alternative? Your cat might end up eating part of the food/medicine, but not ingesting the entire lot, and thus not getting all the medication he or she needs.