Those who have a cat or a cat at home are faced with the need to treat their pet from time to time. After the examination, the veterinarian can prescribe local procedures, prescribe medication - in pills or injections. Sometimes the owners decide not to deliver the cat for an injection to the veterinary clinic, but to carry out such procedures on their own.
Injecting your cat is easy. The biggest challenge is keeping the animal still. It is better for such a procedure to enlist the support of one of the family members. An injection can be made in the hind paw, that is, intramuscularly, and also subcutaneously - in the scruff.
Some owners prefer to fix the cat on the bed - it turns out to be done with one hand, albeit with some skill. This is done as follows: if a person is right-handed, with the forearm of the left hand it is necessary to press the animal to the bed, while the cat must be positioned so that its back is pressed against the person and is, as it were, under his arm. The injection will be done with the right hand. The medicine must be prepared and drawn into the syringe in advance, otherwise it will be extremely difficult to do it later. If the procedure is carried out with an assistant, he must firmly take the cat by the paws, and preferably also hold it on top.
For the injection of cats, it is better to take an insulin syringe with a fine needle. To thrust into the paw, aim at the fleshy surface at the back of the leg. The needle should enter the muscle - you can easily feel it with your fingers, unless the cat is exhausted.
Insert the needle not very sharply, not very deeply, so that the bone is not scratched. Hold the syringe not perpendicularly, but as if parallel to the muscle, so that the needle can be inserted not from above, but from the side.
To perform a subcutaneous injection, the skin on the nape of the cat must be pulled back. We fix the animal in any convenient way, pull the fold with the fingers of our left hand and pierce the skin. Next, you need to slowly introduce the medicine.
Remove excess air from the syringe before giving the injection. To do this, lift the syringe up with a needle and press on the plunger until a drop of liquid appears at the end. The injection site does not need disinfection - the feline organism, unlike the human, will perfectly protect itself from inflammation.
