Mowgli’s medicine
My kitten Mowgli has been sneezing since we got him about 3 months ago. Besides that he acts totally fine and seems healthy but clearly there’s something going on in there because he could sneeze up to 20 times a day (it’s actually quit cute!)
Because of this we have given one medication to try. It was a white powder to put in his food. We’ve been doing this since day one but we didn’t see any difference. Then the vet told us that they often prescribe a child’s medication (yes, I do mean a human child) which josh and I joking call Cherry Monkey flavour because there is a picture of cherries and monkeys on the front of the box, Needless to say Mowgli despised it so we had to sneak it into his soft food.
Anyway, getting to the point! None of this seemed to be working so the vet gave us a third medication to feed him. It’s a small bottle of liquid that smells like cat food accompanied by a very skinny syringe to use to give it to Mowgli. I asked the vet if he had any tips for giving it to Mowgli because last time it was pretty much impossible to get the Cherry Monkey down Mowgli’s throat. He told me that I should put the syringe a bit down Mowgli’s throat when I give himt he medicine and then blow in his nostrils because that will force him to swallow.
The first two times went great! The third time is when I got over-confident and thought the quicker I do it the better it would be for the both of us – get it done as fast as possible. Well, that wasn;t the case. I shoved it down his throat as always (gently of course! I do love Mowgli and don’t want to hurt him 
) Except I noticed Mowgli was acting strange afterward, he was breathing weirdly and I put him down to see what he would do. I just walked a few feet away slowly and started to gag… for about a full minute! I was so worried about him but I knew the worst thing that would happen would be that he would throw up… although that seemed pretty bad to me at the time.
I just watched him to make sure he was ok and tried to control myself from putting my fingers in my ears but eventually my anxiety and my phobia took over and I just covered them without actually making the conscious decision to do so. I then told myself, no, it’s ok, you can do this. I waited until he stopped gagging, he eventually stopped and he didn’t throw up but my anxiety levels definitely went up.
He was pretty tired after the incident and just slept for the next few hours and he seemed ok so I wasn’t too worried but still, giving him the medicine since then has been pretty difficult for me (but I have done it and am pretty proud of that!)
