butter and hairballs

My kitty has been tossing her cookies every now and then. I finally decided she might need to go see the vet. Or as they call her at the clinic, the cat wrangler. She is the ONLY vet at the clinic that will venture to pick my evil nasty hissy sweet kitty up. She always laughs when she sees us coming. Our kitty cat has been known to take her on quite a ride.

First off, they weigh her in the crate. There is a sticker on top that tells how much the crate weighs. So all they have to do is subtract 3.9. And they never have to touch her. Perfect. But then the vet tries to 'palpate her abdomen' and she comments under her breathe that she's not sure she can even feel what's inside a cat 'this big'. I know she's big, but she's not ginormous or anything. Although she is tipping the scales at about 15 or 16 right now. She swings a little bit when she walks. She's supposed to do that, right???

The vet suspected a hair ball too far down to hack up. Nasty, I know! Anyhoo, she gave her antibiotics. Pills. But we have a pill popper. It's this little thing we can plunge the pill down her with. The hubby is an expert with the pill popper. I get everything 'ready', which really means putting butter on the capsules so they will slide down. sweet. He rubs her neck until she's in a little kitty trance and then down the hatch. A little more rubbing, one more pill and still a little more rubbing. And it's over in about 10 seconds. Ta-da!

She likes to lick the butter mustache off herself. I don't blame her.

The other nasty gooey medicine is something for hairballs. And I am so not kidding when I tell you what it is. It's a fish flavored 'vaseline' type product in a tube. She gets one inch per day. According to the vet, she's supposed to like this and even lick it up all by herself. Um...right. We have to put it on the tops of her front paws and she licks it off after we put her in the bathroom for the night. When we let her out in the mornings, her paws are clean as a whistle and she doesn't even smell fishy any more.

But to top it all off... something we're giving her causes her 'business' to smell like an actual skunk has visited the premises. The fun ever stops.