Steroids are horrible drugs.

[snarp]

I'm jittery, hyper, sweating, and obsessed with how everything smells. Every odor is an assault that leaves me reeling today, like that Andre Norton book about the perfumist girl who's oppressed by her boss's hygiene. (Not Norton's best - as someone who genuinely is seriously preoccupied with perfume, I didn't really buy the way the heroine related to it - but it's solid enough.) I've got incense burning in two rooms and I keep going through my perfumes and teas. If there were a car here and I were allowed to drive, I might have taken off for the greenhouse to stick my head in the rose bushes.

My cat seems to be aware of situation; she keeps rubbing against me. She's previously been voted the worst-smelling cat in the world, this cat. She did a lot of campaigning, she studied the issues - really earned it.

Unrelatedly, we just bought some pill pockets to try and get her old-cat stuff into her without using a pill gun. And they're working really well. She loves them, and they're really easy to fold around the medicine and seal up - sort of cat-food play-dough. I totally recommend this strategy for cats who aren't paranoid about accepting treats. (The other cat, a deeply traumatized young man who's allergic to his own fur, has to be wrapped in a towel like a burrito and pilled by hand.) It's so much easier than fooling with the pill gun.

So, so, hyper, but too dizzy to move. I hate these pills.

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[mikkeneko]

In my experience, the pill pockets work fantastically -- for the first one or two instances. After that the feline catches on and will refuse to take any more.

I've been feeding my leftover pill pockets to my kitty with no pills in em to lower his suspicions, but what he'll do is chew them suspiciously apart and leave the mess lying on the rug. :p

[snarp]

We're on day three of her gulping the pocket down with great relish, but yeah, I'm watching warily for that. Fortunately her pills are really tiny in comparison to the pockets. Part of the reason the other cat won't take them is probably that his are bigger and more noticeable in there.