Stubborn Kitty:

Are you one of those people who doesn't like to see a Doctor or get a shot?  What about animals.  Do you have any animals, including kids, that run and hide when you have medicine to give them.  I have four rescued cats.  I love them dearly, they are my children, family and my companions, but when they get sick it's expensive and a pain.  It started off with Braveheart the Warrior. He got an eye infection and now all of them have it. 

He's really quite the warrior.

All of the cats are walking around with  one eye closed and I know it hurts them.  So I have been taking each cat and putting them in my lap to administer the medicine, antibiotics and an eye cream. 


Well I have one fighter amongst the group.  Juliet.   She is the only female and the most fickle.  Not about food, but about taking medicine. 


Every time I try to give her the antibiotics she clamps her mouth shut and pushes out of my lap with her strong arms and legs.  She fusses so much the medicine usually ends up on her face rather than her mouth.  I can't blame her she is scared, but she's making it so much worse.    When I finally do get it down her throat she gags like I gave her something vile like liver or something.   (Liver would be gross to humans. )

The Antibiotics taste like Pina Colada.

Then when I put the eye cream in, she squirms and I almost poke her eye out.  When the torture is all over and I let her down off my lap.  Of course immediately she takes her paw and cleans her face almost removing all the eye cream medicine.  After all that fuss her look to me and response is WHY? 

Over the last week all of them have been getting better but Juliet.  Her recovery is slower, although she is not as fussy.  I guess she finally decided since she is feeling a little better, what I'm doing to her is good and she just might behave.

I lavish her with tons of love and affection when she allows me to semi get it in.  So hopefully the eye will be healed and she will be back to her lovely mommy kitty self.  I think that is it.  Like a Doctor, they make horrible patients.  Juliet is the mommy kitty and hates to be a patient. 

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