Medicating Moggies Just Got Easier!
It starts with trying to get your cat into the basket and to the vets after rushing home early from work and often ends in tears with those damn pills the vet has prescribed anywhere but in the cat.
New products now mean that it is now possible to wake up from the nightmare of giving your cat tablets. Read on to find out about these exciting developments that will make your cat's treatment less stressful and more successful!
Getting a Convenient Appointment
We have always operated an appointments system with consultations from 9am until 6:30pm or 7:00pm. But did you know we have a late night surgery at our Footscray hospital from 8:00 until 9:30pm?
At most other vets you will either have to travel to a different practice at this time, or pay a huge out-of-hours fee. All you'll pay with us is our standard consult fee plus a small evening surcharge.
We also have a networked database of your pet's clinical records so we can access your pet's notes from any of our clinics or hospital, meaning any vet you see will have full access to your pet's notes at any time of day or night.
Getting Your Cat in its Basket
The first real challenge for most cat owners but you can take steps to make it much easier:
- Relax and act normally - if you are wound up before you even start then your cat will sense something is up.
- Get the basket ready in another room behind closed doors so your cat cannot see or hear you preparing.
- Position the basket with the door open and the back resting against a wall so it cannot move when you put your cat inside.
- Go get the cat. Scoop it up, hold it firmly and move quickly towards the basket.
- Put your cat down in front of the basket with its head facing away from the basket - you are going to put it in bum first.
- Lift its bum and back legs inside the basket with one hand under the tummy, whilst with the other gently push backward on its head. Try to do this in one movement.
- Close the door pronto.
You will of course have to practice this but putting a cat into its basket bum first is a lot easier then head first and avoids the scrabbling and obstructive claws!
In really bad cases it may be advisable to leave the basket out all the time so your cat doesn't associate its appearance with going to the vets and disappearing.
Giving Tablets
The words "and give these tablets" can cause despair in even the best of cat owners. That normally friendly mouser that inhabits your home can suddenly develop an attitude that defies explanation.
Help is here. We have:
- Long acting antibiotic injections that can replace a 14 day course of tablets.
- Spot-on flea and worm treatments that can be simply applied to the skin.
- Nurse clinics where if all else fails you can bring your cat back for a nurse to give the pill free of charge.
- Palatable tablets for many medications to help if there is no other option!
This mercifully means that there will be fewer occasions requiring pills to be popped down the sharp end.
We're Trying to Help
Visiting the vet never seems a convenient or simple experience so Parkvets tried to help you with:
- Available appointments that realistically match most people's working day.
- No outsourcing of emergency services. Your emergency is a Parkvets one. No late night dash across strange suburbs of London to a never before visited clinic. It's the Parkvets hospital every time that's open all day every day.
- We constantly look for new products to make the management of your pet's problems as easy as possible.
- We're always looking for feedback on how we can give you a better service. Why not contact us right now with your thoughts.
