In this clip I teach you how to turn a pill popper into a delicious food dispenser! This technique will allow you to medicate your cat without any restraint and minimal handling! This is a very positive medicating strategy! Be sure to check out all of my medicating, behavior and training videos at fundamentallyfeline.com!
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Train Your Cat to Accept Eye Drops
This video walks you through step-by-step instructions for administering eye drops to cats. By keeping training fun and positive you will see that the cats willingly participate and are actually eager to get their medications! Cats can be medicated and its easier than you think! No more restraint contraptions or squishing them between your knees! Learn to administer treatments to your cat before they need these treatments for their quality of life and yours! Prevention is the best medicine!
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Train Your Cat to Accept Topical Medications
This video will review the steps needed to desensitize and counter condition (DS/CC) your cat to accepting topical medications. Some cats hate the smell, others dislike the sensation of the cool liquid on their skin. This video will help you train them to accept this treatment so it is not an ordeal to administer.
Using Shaping to Allow Handling for Oral Medicating
In this video I teach you how to use the training technique, shaping, to desensitize and counter-condition your cat to allow their head, neck and jaw to be handled and manipulated to allow this type of pilling technique. For context and to see what your end goal will look like, check out my video, “Train Your Cat to Accept Oral Medications” and others!
Train Your Cat to Take a Pill in Four Easy Steps (the short version)
This is the quick version! Learn the steps to pill your cat using only training and positive reinforcement, no restraint required! Please see the myriad of other training videos available on my website @Fundamentally Feline (.com) and You Tube channel for more detailed medicating tips.
Mat Training as a Treatment Station (and a step-by-step pilling guide)
Some pet parents (and their cats) find it easiest to train their cat to come to a specific location and medicate them in that spot. The cat learns that this location is a place where good things happen and are often agreeable to handling in these areas. If the targeted location is movable, like the mat demonstrated here, anywhere can be a positive location to medicate! You can even bring your cat’s mat to the veterinarian and place it on the exam table. I’ve done this! It works! High fiving the vet and getting an exam all with fun and treats. The end of this video also offers a step-by-step pilling tutorial.
