Calling All Cat Owners......

[ladybirder]

Our vet has suggested I sprinkle Ipakitine powder on my 18-year-old cat's food. It is supposed to be odourless and tasteless. Not to Maggie it isn't. She won't go near any of the tasty morsels I have put down for her with a little of the powder buried in there. As she hasn't eaten for 24 hours I've given in because she is very hungry and she's so thin and scrawny it felt cruel not to. Has anyone of you managed to get your cat to take Ipakitine?

[Barmaid]

My old lady was on Fortekor. She WOULD NOT take those wretched pills. So how I used to get them down her was chop it in half, cut a king prawn into four, make a small hole in two of the bits and insert the pill halves in there. First bit without a pill, second bit with a pill, etc.

Now I realise I sound absolutely bonkers.

[ladybirder]

I do the tablet/prawn thing exactly like that barmaid. It lasts about a day till she cottons on then I find the pill on the floor a few hours later. She's 18 - she knows every trick in the book. Obviously nothing wrong with her sense of taste or smell.

[mccfluff]

murph is a bugger for this the only way i get worming powder into her is to mix it in yoghurt and then she wolfs the lot, no use if your's doesn't like yoghurt's tho!

[ladybirder]

Errrm what flavour mccfluff?

[mccfluff]

lol just plain although i'll have the vanilla one's and we have a right fight over it

[willowman]

boxtops - here at the cattery we always say that KD food looks as if it has already been eaten once, and after running the cattery for 7 years we have not had one cat that will eat it.

[boxtops]

willowman, I so much agree. After his diagnosis Rover was put on KD food, he cried when I gave it to him the one time I tried, he was so hungry and the stuff looked disgusting. I soon moved him back to decent senior food - better happy than refusing to eat.

[LoftyLottie]

Any more sightings Boxy?

[boxtops]

No lottie, sorry to say, not. He's in the local paper again this week. Thankfully the one which had been handed in dead wasn't him, the RSCPA said that one wasn't microchipped. We are back in wait'n'see mode again now.

[Frannick]

My 15yr old cat has 1g of Ipakitine food mixed in with his food each meal time. He eats it no problem and is one of the most fussiest eaters ever. Because he has to have medication twice daily for hyperthyroidism as well, I switched to Gourmet Gold and he eats it no problem and we are all in a great routine with no stress about medicating etc. The Ipakitine also seems to have worked wonders for his CRF as well. He eats most of the Gold varieties, but the Pate ones are his favourite. It's great for an older cat as very easy to eat. Try mashing up your cat's food to a mince/pate consistency ...it just helps the old timers out more.

[ladybirder]

Boxy I hope you read this. I took your advice and today asked the vet for Fortekor having tried most of the other suggestions and failed. She didn't have any in stock but gave me something very similar and lo and behold Maggie ate half a tablet as prescribed out of my hand this evening. So fingers crossed she'll do the same tomorrow and the day after.... Amazing. Thank you, at last she's doing something to help herself.