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Some drugs are available online / locally through compounding pharmacies as transdermal creams that you apply to the inner surface of the cat's ear. From a qui

Some drugs are available online / locally through compounding pharmacies as transdermal creams that you apply to the inner surface of the cat's ear. From a quick search, it looks like cerenia is available in this form. Your last sentence, "[pilling cat] (without drama) is by putting it deep into his mouth" must mean you have a very chill cat [emphasis mine].

georgemcbay 3mo ago
Can confirm, transdermal maropitant (cerenia) worked very well for my cat who was dealing with both CKD and IBD in her later years (she passed away in December). I bought it off of Chewy, but there are other places that compound it into a transdermal as well. > Your last sentence, "[pilling cat] (without drama) is by putting it deep into his mouth" must mean you have a very chill cat [emphasis mine]. I'm not the person you are replying to, but for my cat putting any pills deep into her mouth meant using a piller device. Luckily my cat was totally non-aggressive, so when it came time to take pills she would try to evade, but never attack, but she was pretty good at undulating her tongue to try to swat pills out. Over her last year or so she was getting multiple medications per day (and subcutaneous fluids 3x a week) so being able to do some of them as transdermals helped lessen the stress of getting everything into her.
- jsiepkes 3mo ago
  > Some drugs are available online / locally through compounding pharmacies as transdermal creams that you apply to the inner surface of the cat's ear. > Can confirm, transdermal maropitant (cerenia) worked very well for my cat who was dealing with both CKD and IBD in her later years (she passed away in December). Thank you both for the tip! I'm going to look in to that. Sorry to hear your cat passed away :( > Luckily my cat was totally non-aggressive, so when it came time to take pills she would try to evade, but never attack, but she was pretty good at undulating her tongue to try to swat pills out. Exact same thing here. The cat is totally relaxed, no biting, clawing, etc. Only tries to "go in reverse". Which doesn't help him, since I'm sitting behind him. But he has gotten good at trying to swat pills out of his mouth with his tongue. But with a piller, it is do-able.
  - georgemcbay 3mo ago
    > Sorry to hear your cat passed away :( Thanks. She made it to ~18 (just over 16 years with me and she was estimated to be about 2 by the shelter I adopted her from, but they weren't exactly sure) despite the various health issues, so it wasn't a big shock when she passed away but its still awful to lose them. Be good to your guy while you still can. The one other thing that helped with my cat for some medications is, where possible, stuffing the pill into a gel cap (you can buy bags of like hundreds of caps pretty inexpensively) that's just big enough to fit the pill. This increases the size a bit, of course, but for any particularly bitter medication it at least masks the mouth taste. They even have some vet-specific gel caps made to taste like chicken, etc. Those never worked any better than non-flavored ones for my cat, though anecdotally I guess they do work for some cats enough that they will voluntarily eat the pill.

georgemcbay 3mo ago

Can confirm, transdermal maropitant (cerenia) worked very well for my cat who was dealing with both CKD and IBD in her later years (she passed away in December). I bought it off of Chewy, but there are other places that compound it into a transdermal as well. > Your last sentence, "[pilling cat] (without drama) is by putting it deep into his mouth" must mean you have a very chill cat [emphasis mine]. I'm not the person you are replying to, but for my cat putting any pills deep into her mouth meant using a piller device. Luckily my cat was totally non-aggressive, so when it came time to take pills she would try to evade, but never attack, but she was pretty good at undulating her tongue to try to swat pills out. Over her last year or so she was getting multiple medications per day (and subcutaneous fluids 3x a week) so being able to do some of them as transdermals helped lessen the stress of getting everything into her.

jsiepkes 3mo ago
> Some drugs are available online / locally through compounding pharmacies as transdermal creams that you apply to the inner surface of the cat's ear. > Can confirm, transdermal maropitant (cerenia) worked very well for my cat who was dealing with both CKD and IBD in her later years (she passed away in December). Thank you both for the tip! I'm going to look in to that. Sorry to hear your cat passed away :( > Luckily my cat was totally non-aggressive, so when it came time to take pills she would try to evade, but never attack, but she was pretty good at undulating her tongue to try to swat pills out. Exact same thing here. The cat is totally relaxed, no biting, clawing, etc. Only tries to "go in reverse". Which doesn't help him, since I'm sitting behind him. But he has gotten good at trying to swat pills out of his mouth with his tongue. But with a piller, it is do-able.
- georgemcbay 3mo ago
  > Sorry to hear your cat passed away :( Thanks. She made it to ~18 (just over 16 years with me and she was estimated to be about 2 by the shelter I adopted her from, but they weren't exactly sure) despite the various health issues, so it wasn't a big shock when she passed away but its still awful to lose them. Be good to your guy while you still can. The one other thing that helped with my cat for some medications is, where possible, stuffing the pill into a gel cap (you can buy bags of like hundreds of caps pretty inexpensively) that's just big enough to fit the pill. This increases the size a bit, of course, but for any particularly bitter medication it at least masks the mouth taste. They even have some vet-specific gel caps made to taste like chicken, etc. Those never worked any better than non-flavored ones for my cat, though anecdotally I guess they do work for some cats enough that they will voluntarily eat the pill.