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If your cat has had a not very good experience, and requires medication via pill, this article is for you. I have suffered through about 28 pillings so far, and have found the best tricks for shoving that little thingy down their littler throats. First, get a pillgun. This looks like a wacky syringe, and works like one. You just load the pill in the front, open the cat's mouth, insert the pillgun down a few inches, and push the plunger. The pill comes out, goes down the cat's throat, and eventually ends up in the stomach, where it is ready to be barfed up. How do you get the mouth open? Some literature says that you just put your fingers someplace on his jaw, and pull back. That doesn't work on my cats. So, I get a partner to pry its jaw open (I get a partner to do that because cats occasionally bite), and when the mouth is open... <jab> <poink> <wretch> <barf>. Easy! In easy outline format: I. Load the pillgun A. Set pill on counter B. Put pillgun nozzle on top of pill C. Push down on pillgun assembly until pill goes into pillgun barrel II. Open the cat's mouth A. Pry it open 1. Try Jaws of Life 2. Or brute force B. Hold it open III. Shove pillgun down throat A. Hold onto plunger brackets B. Shove down throat (the cat's, not yours) IV. Shoot! A. Push plunger DOWN. B. Pull pillgun out fast. C. Let go of mouth fast. D. Rub cat's chin fast until it swallows. Easy as 3.14157! Of course, that only works on dead cats.