Conference misery::feline_v1

    I'm happy to hear about Ginger.
    
    If I recall correctly, a vaporizer has some type of heating element
    in ti that makes the vapor come out as hot steam.  And a humidifier
    uses some other method to make the steam which is a cool steam.
    I always remember using the vaporizer when I was sick, yet we use
    our humdiifier 24 hours a day in winter so that the air won't be
    as dry.  
    
    If you already own one or the other, that's the one I'd use, but
    if you have to go out and buy one, I'd probably buy the Humidifier
    since you could use it more often.  Also, since it's so hot and
    humid out no anyway, I wouldn't want to add any more hot steam to
    my house.
    
    Good luck with Ginger.
    
    	-Nancy

    Thanks!  We bought a humidifier last night.  She must feel a little
    better since she leaped from the waterbed last night and hit the
    screen door on her bedroom when she saw Whiskie.  Her back was up
    and boy did Whisk jump and run.  
    
    What I now need help on is advice on giving meds.  Dr. Nord said
    that Ginger has 2 kinds of worms (that med I put in her moist food).
    It's the eye sauve.  She won't hold still for that.  My hubby held
    her rear paws in one hand and front paws in the other but she still
    got loose, clawed him and her eyes look no better.  HOW DO YOU HOLD
    A WILD CAT??????????????/  God ............. the strength she's
    getting. 
    

    place her flat on her back on your lap with her head toward your
    knees - have someone hold her 4 paws with one hand and have them
    use their other hand to hold her body.  You take your left hand
    and put it up and around her head and with index finger and thumb
    raise the eye lid with right hand squeeze gooey stuff along the
    rim of the lower lid - then release lids from left index finger
    and thumb and sort of very gently rub lids together to make sure
    the gooey stuff spreads around. reverse directions if you are
    either right or left handed.  If you do not have a 2nd person
    wrap tightly in a bath towel and then lay cat on your lap with
    head toward your knees - use your left elbow to hold cat's body 
    then lay your arm up the tummy with wrist on chest, cup hand around
    the cat's head and then position left index finger and thumb to raise eye
    lid. 
    When procedure is complete, release towel, release cat, and run
    like hell cause the cat is probably very mad!  Just kidding!
    Kitty will love you because you released her, but she will
    figure out that she feels better and may not mind at all.
    It's when she does feel better, she will think that she
    doesn't really need this gooey stuff any more even though
    she does! After you do it a few times you will get better
    at it.  Wear long sleves, just in case.
    
    Good Luck,
    
    E.T.
                                           

    I've always had better luck by standing the cat on it's four feet,
    and holding one hand firmly around the face, gently lift the head
    back slightly and with the other hand squeeze some of the stuff
    in the eyes.
    
    Of course, I've got persians and their used of me messing with their
    eyes, so they might be a little more easier to handle.
    
    cin
    

    I use a laundry sack with a drawstring. Put the cat in the sack,let
    the headpop out and draw the string. You now have a cat head only
    to deal with. This works well as I don't have anyone to help me
    give meds.