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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 08:17 AM
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Do they make sleeping pills for cats?
Why won't they let me sleep?! Ugh
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 08:21 AM
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1. Have you ever tried giving a pill to a cat?
It's pure torture for the piller and the pilled.
Cats sleep 16 hours a day. I think you have to work on keeping them awake all evening. By bedtime, the cats should be so tired that they will sleep through most of the night.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 08:24 AM
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3. I've tried keeping them up all night
Didn't work. But thanks for the suggestion.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 09:33 AM
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7. Not around here.
I simply put it in a small wad of wet food and it's gone in one fell swoop...or gulp. LOL Then they can have the rest of the can. Works every time. :hi:
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 11:04 AM
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8. You're lucky
I have had to give pills to one of my cats and he is rather fussy about food -- no gobbling for him.
Besides, the other cat pushes him out of the way and eats up the rest of the first cat's food. The second cat is a gobbler and may end up taking the medicine meant for the first cat.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 11:08 AM
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9. Yeah, I've got three so
I do know what you're saying about watching for the gobblers. Especially the two that are under a year old. I usually give them some of the wet food to keep them occupied while I slip a small piece of baby aspirin into the 12 year old's little wad of food. By them, she's so jealous she snarfs it right up. :rofl:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 08:22 AM
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2. They sleep plenty
Just not when YOU want to sleep ... Believe me I understand. 3am is cosidered prime playtime in my household.....:eyes:
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 08:25 AM
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4. Mine are ok until the sun rises
Then all bets are off. For some reason, they didn't adjust to daylight savings time, though. So Pumpkin started meowing in my face around 7a.m. :-(
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 08:27 AM
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5. It comes in a can.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 08:40 AM
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6. You mean food?
:shrug:
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