A bunch of useless crap
Not as easy as it sounds
Published on September 8, 2006 By MasonM In Pets & Nature
Geez, who knew a cat could be so damned hard to hold on to. I'm putting the drops in Socrates' ears as the vet instructed in order to get rid of the ear mites. Of course he doesn't understand why I'm putting something wet in his ears and doesn't appreciate it much at all.

It's a real struggle to hold on to him and get the drops in his ears and then rub it around so that it makes contact where it has to do so. He fights me every step of the way. I don't want to hold his head so tightly that it hurts him so it's tough to hang on to him while he is struggling to get loose.

There has to be an easier way.

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on Sep 08, 2006
yes - get someone to hold him for you! Otherwise have fun!  
on Sep 08, 2006
Reply #1
yes - get someone to hold him for you! Otherwise have fun!


Nah, I'm a one man band. Fun? Well I guess that does have a pretty subjective definition
on Sep 08, 2006
Knees!  Sit on the floor, and hold him with your knees.  Then do the drops.  The Indians knew that secret before the stupid white man mucked things up!
on Sep 08, 2006
Reply #3
Knees! Sit on the floor, and hold him with your knees. Then do the drops. The Indians knew that secret before the stupid white man mucked things up!


If I were physically capable of sitting on the floor that just might work

I'm thinking along the lines of a lasso and hog tie his ass.
on Sep 08, 2006
I'm thinking along the lines of a lasso and hog tie his ass.


White man's way! Works too!
on Sep 08, 2006
White man's way! Works too!


on Sep 09, 2006
Maybe if you squirt the stuff in his ears instead of counting drops.
on Sep 09, 2006
Reply #7
Maybe if you squirt the stuff in his ears instead of counting drops.


I tried that. He likes it even less.
on Sep 09, 2006
Get a blowgun and tranquilize him.

Cats are evil little creatures when you're trying to do something that involves liquid to them. They're too flexible and you can't keep them in one position...now a good ol' dog you can hold down with brute force...a cat twists like a yoga girl...but those are more fun to try and hold down.   

~Zoo
on Sep 09, 2006
Reply #9
Get a blowgun and tranquilize him.

Cats are evil little creatures when you're trying to do something that involves liquid to them. They're too flexible and you can't keep them in one position...now a good ol' dog you can hold down with brute force...a cat twists like a yoga girl...but those are more fun to try and hold down.


Yeah, they can be a handfull.

Cats too for that matter.
on Sep 09, 2006
He likes it even less.


Not the point.
on Sep 09, 2006
Okay Mason, I am going to put you out of your misery.

Put the cat in a towel, wrap him up snug as a bug, put him under your arm then put the drops in, the towel must be wrapped tightly from the neck down the lebgth of the body, snug snug snug.
on Sep 09, 2006
wrapped like a cocoon, no paws - no claws!  
on Sep 09, 2006
Not the point.


It is when it makes him fight even more.
on Sep 09, 2006
Reply #12
Okay Mason, I am going to put you out of your misery.

Put the cat in a towel, wrap him up snug as a bug, put him under your arm then put the drops in, the towel must be wrapped tightly from the neck down the lebgth of the body, snug snug snug.


wrapped like a cocoon, no paws - no claws!


Yeah, I may have to do that. He doesn't try to bite or scratch, just wiggle free. The towel idea may make it easier to hold on to him. I'll give it a try this evening.
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