How to Give Shots to a Cat

To treat the diabetes usually you have to put insulin shots, besides that his veterinary can provide intravenous medicines that could save the life of your cat, for example in the case that he is in dangerous for suffering an anaphylactic shock after he has pricked by wasps or other insects. Although the idea of to put a shot can intimidate a while, really is very easy to do; in many aspects, more than administering medicines by oral way.

1. Introduce the medicine in the syringe.
2. With the needle up, give a few flicks in the syringe until all the bubbles of air rise to the mouth; then, push the piston to expel them until the first drop of liquid goes out.
3. Immobilize the cat on a table
4. Meanwhile you talk soothing words to him, take a plait of the skin of the neck, in the zone placed between the sternums. (It is a part of the slightly sensitive skin).
5. With a determined movement, penetrate the skin with the needle up to the subcutaneous tissue, but without coming to muscle, and inject into this space the content of the syringe. (There is another alternative method; his veterinarian can instruct you about the way of injecting directly into the muscles of the back leg some capable drugs of saving life. Follow the instructions strictly).
6. Praise the cat for his obedience and give him a delicacy as remuneration.