Battle Against Mochi

The vet had given us antihistamine for 5 days and also eye drop. It is half a pill each time, once in the morning and once at night, after food. I think nothing of the tablets, it was quite manageable when we had to give Mochi tablets the last time for his cat flu. 

The eye drop sounded scary. The vet said that it would be a team effort. I like how she puts it. Lol. Anyway, she suggested that we burrito Mochi, pried open his eyes and administer the eye drop. I think Mochi will hate us. 

In the end, the eye drop isn’t so bad. One of us just have to hug Mochi very firmly and the other does the eye drop. I don’t think the eye drop stings or makes him uncomfortable. However, Mochi still runs away every time after we finished the eye drop. 

The tablet proved to be the challenging one. On the 1st evening, we tried forcing the half down his throat. He somehow managed to spit it out and started foaming. I think the medicine must be super bitter. We eventually succeeded by hiding it in his snacks. Temptations not resisted. 

There are wins and misses. Daddy Lim and Nana each have some successes in shoving the tablet down his throat. It depends on whether we managed to push the tablet deep enough into his throat. Otherwise, we see Mochi making funny faces and out popped the tiny pill from I duno where and in cases like this, we missed our only chance and it would be impossible to try again. It is ok, I think he will be fine missing some dosages. 

My only successes are when I tried hiding the tablet in his food/ snack. It doesn’t always work. One time, I crushed up and mixed with a little wet food and offered to Mochi during dinner time. I left the rest of his dinner on the kitchen top. Somebody left the kitchen door opened, he didn’t touch the food with the pill but sneaked up and finished his table on the kitchen top. Zzzz. 

Another time, I did the same but this time, add the wet food back into his dinner bowl. He rather skipped his dinner, tried eating the part not “contaminated” by the medicine, then meowed for more food. I gave him kibbles; he rather eat the kibbles than his favorite wet food. 有骨气. 

Yday, after we failed with the wet snacks, I tried sneaking the pill into the snack bowl. He finished the snack and cleverly left the medicine in the bowl. See that yellow speck in the bowl? Zzzzz. 

I duno if the medicine is making him better. 

Some days, he looked really bad, but I am not sure if the medicine is not helping or it is the eye drop that made the eye area even more moist and thus raw. He tends to look better after I clean him with gauze. Can’t afford to be lazy now. Other days, he looked like he had gotten better.

If it is really allergies, then why did he suddenly develop ah? I tried recalling but cannot pinpoint what had been changed to result in an allergy and why one eye 1st? Allergy may be the bigger problem bcos he could be allergic to anything! How to find out ah? Pls do not ask me to feed Mochi medicine for a long time. I cannot. Zzzzz… 

We have another 3 days of antihistamines and will see how it goes. Another thing - we have noticed him sneezing and maybe a little stuffy nose too after the vet visit. Is it the antihistamines? Pls don’t let that be another cat flu. Zzzzz.

Mummy Lim