TimesToCome

Kazoo has been prescribed metronidazole. This is a medicine that cats are particularly adverse to taking. While looking for tips I ran across this:

How to give a cat a pill:
(1) Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby, place right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat’s mouth gently apply pressure to cheeks and pop pill into mouth, allow cat to close mouth and swallow.
(2) Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa and repeat process.
(3) Retrieve cat from bedroom and throw away soggy pill, take new pill out of foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm holding rear paws tightly with left hand, force jaws open and push pill to back of throat with right forefinger, hold mouth shut for a count of ten.
(4) Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and the cat from top of wardrobe and call spouse from garden.
(5) Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws, ignore low primeval growls emitted by cat, get spouse to hold firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth, drop pill down ruler into mouth and rub cat’s throat vigorously.
(6)Retrieve cat from curtain, get another pill from foil wrap, make a note to get a new ruler and repair curtains, carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from around the room and set aside for gluing later.
(7)Wrap cat in a large bath towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from the towel, put the pill in the end of a drinking straw, force mouth open with a pencil and blow down the drinking straw.
(8)Check label to make sure it is not harmful to humans, drink a bottle of beer to take taste away, apply plaster to spouses forearm and add carpet cleaner to shopping list to clean blood from carpet.
(9)Retrieve cat from next door shed, get another pill, place cat in cupboard and close door on to cats neck so head is just showing. Force mouth open with a large spoon, and flick pill down with an elastic band.
(10) Fetch screw driver from shed and fix cupboard doors back onto hinges, apply cold compress to cheek and check records for last tetanus jab, throw away torn and blooded t-shirt.
(11) Ring fire brigade to rescue cat from tree across road, and apologize to motorist who crashed into a tree while trying to avoid cat, get last pill from the foil wrap.
(12)Tie the little devils front paws to the rear paws with garden twine, and bind it tightly to the leg of the dining table, find heavy duty pruning gloves from shed, push pill into mouth followed by a large piece of steak, be rough you will not be beaten this time, hold head vertically and pour to pints of water down throat to wash pill down.
(13)Get spouse to take you to the nearest casualty dept.
(14)Arrange for the R.S.P.C.A to collect the mutant cat from hell and ring the local pet shop to see if they have a hamster for sale.

And I’m thinking, this guy must’ve had the cousin of Kazoo. As funny as it is it still doesn’t tell you how to get the damn cat to take the pill.

I did find a solution. I crush the pill, mix it with a little Vaseline and put it on Kazoo’s front paw. Same as you would do if the cat had hair balls. He then grooms it off, no one gets bloody and he doesn’t even put up a fight. Especially if he is sleeping when I start. Some stores have flavored Vaseline to use on the cats. You could try adding anchovy paste to the Vasoline but probably only on outdoor cats.