My cat has stopped taking her Prozac.
Just within the past three days after successfully consuming her soft Whisker Lickins (with a half tab of Prozac hidden inside) for months, she has lost all interest in eating the traet. This is not good because when she’s off her meds, she pees. Usually she pees on my bed.
If I go back to the liquid form, she will end up hiding from me because having a plastic syringe forced into her mouth is not welcomed. I’ve tried to mask it in soft food, but she just ends up not eating any of it.
The only thing I suspect will work is to freeze her out. Meaning, stop feeding her entirely until she gets so hungry she goes back to the Whisker Lickins treats with the medicine inside.
I hate this because I feel like a monster. Now, it’s unlikely that she would go for a whole day without food, but I have to stand firm. The truth is that I can’t have her peeing outside of her box. And after not taking her meds for awhile, she will almost certainly do this.
Her looking at me with the eyes that seem to say, “Why won’t you feed me? I’m hungry!” are hard to digest (pun intended). It’s nice to know I have a heart and all, and that the guilt machine can be flipped on. But to not feed my cat for awhile… Ugh.
I mean, obviously, I still beat her and all. That’s more recreation than discipline.
But no food while she’s hungry? Cruel.
itshopeyo92 says:
crush that shit up and put it in some wet food yo
D.J. Paris says:
I did, yo. Didn’t work, yo.
WEH says:
have you tried Greenies pill pockets? My very pill adverse cat eats these up with out spitting out the pill every time!
D.J. Paris says:
Yes – both the dog and cat version. She likes neither, the b*tch.
therealbirdman says:
Get a tranquilizer gun. It will also improve your marksmanship.
D.J. Paris says:
@therealbirdman I do enjoy hurting things with guns.
Kelly says:
This is too funny, I had to use this technique on my cat too when I started adding olive oil to her food to prevent kitty dandruff. She would sit there and look at her food and then look at me like “WTF is THIS?” Sometimes she would take 2 bites and then spend 5 minutes cleaning the oil off her fur glaring at me like I was a monster. After about a week she got used to it and started eating again…and she barely even hates me now!
D.J. Paris says:
She hates you plenty. God told me.
apodd2012 says:
My cat is in heart failure and I have to give him a pill and liquid every day. Twice for the liquid. I tried to do the whole hide the pill (canned cat food worked the best) but then I realized if I bribed him with snacks after the meds he was pretty decent about it. Granted I overfeed the little guy, but hell he was supposed to be dead 2 months ago, so why not let him get fat and be happy.
D.J. Paris says:
@apodd2012 This post was way too goddamned sad. Stop depressing my readers! Ha.
apodd2012 says:
You are welcome!
Katjaneway says:
My cat one day decided he didn’t like his dry food anymore, so he stopped eating it. I kept looking at the bowl, seeing it full, and I was like “ok, Justin must be feeling him”. So, like, 3 days later, I asked. No, he hadn’t been. He thought I’d been. Hmm. Cats are big hold outs. My cat is a huge, 14-pounder (he’s got like, Maine Coon in him I swear) and can barely go 6 hrs w/o food, let alone 3 days. But, as soon as we bought him something else, he was scarfing it, so it wasn’t like he was sick. Just stubborn. And dumb.
But, how is it going with the natural, Jackson Galaxy treatment? Maybe you should stop the prozac anyway and see if it’s helping.