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Old Jun 19, 2011, 02:09 PM
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Hi Echoes ~ Thank you for your reply The medication comes in either a capsule or a pill. What I do is open up the capsule and dilute it in broth and use a syringe to get it into his mouth. Injections are out of the question with his flight response. I had it compounded with special flavoring and he still fought me. When I could get to him, he would clamp his mouth shut, so I just it flow along his gum lines and most of it ended up on the floor than in him.
If it is available in liquid form, as my cat's recent medication was, it is easy to use a syringe (no needle) to measure and squirt into the mouth. My cat liked it so much that he let me give him water that way too. He's well now, but had to be on the medication twice a day for several months.

I hope you get some good suggestions.