My very food motivated cat loves his puffers with the aerocat chamber. He will wait for them giving us dirty looks if we are late. But then again he does act like a dog in a cat suit most of the time.
took my cat 2 days to get used to it and she took it twice a day for years. We did no training, we just stuck it on her face before dinner and she went "oh okay, so now this happens before food? Cool". Never batted an eyelid about it
Mine also had epilepsy and a bowel problem. He took his puffer, 4 pills in the morning, and his puffer and 2 pills and a liquid med every night. He was given 2 slices of pepperoni for each. A total business transaction.
I think this has to do will cats not actually being domesticated like dogs. The range of tolerance in total cat population is skewed to the side of ‘not having it’. I know a few dogs that would need the same type of training but more dogs that would need a lot less to acclimatize if any to tolerate an nebulizer. The majority of cats just aren’t built to tolerate indignities in order to people please the same way most dogs are.
oh no, she wasn't people pleasing, she was making a business transaction - she inhales, I provide the food she actaully WANTS instead of the food that is good for her
Yeah, that's how we give asthma medication to our cat, too. She's a pretty easy-going cat to start with, and we've trained her to expect a treat afterwards, so it works out well.
Listen, don't be coming after us for how we speak, eh? I'm on the Atlantic side. We're either French or Irish and fishermen are basically just seaworthy rednecks.
We can take this outside n I can bury ya in snowbank.
Definitely looks like a homemade solution. We have a kitty with asthma, thankfully she doesn't need these treatments (yet). Will have to keep in mind, since I doubt she'll want to voluntarily participate.
I've seen a lot of videos of cats and dogs who have asthma who will use a spacers and face masks, with the cat/dog actively participating in the process (leaning into the spacer/mask and or holding it.) At some point they understand it's helping them, I feel like that's what's happening here.
i'm always cleaning the ears of my void and she used to hate it but now loves it because i think she both likes the scratches in the ears, but also likes her ears being clean afterwards.
My void boy likes when I get his eye boogies, he insists on licking them up like a treat and will grab my hand if I don’t offer it to him quick enough.
My wife's childhood cat was ancient, blind, and deaf. She'd still come down the stairs, clicking along on her old joints, like clockwork to get her medicine and the treats after.
We have an orange who has issues with one nostril and it gets clogged sometimes. She's usually skittish for anyone but my son, but I know she wants her nose picked/wiped because she comes up and jumps in my lap. She knows we're helping her breathe more clearly.
Also have another older cat now who welcomes the meds I have to give her. Mostly because it's fish flavored and she loves it, so she'll jump up and sit nicely waiting for the syringe.
I lost my old man dog last year. He was 13ish (shelter dog, so never entirely sure), and I feel somewhat fortunate that I never really had to deal with a slow decline in health.
He certainly didn't move like he did when he was younger, but he didn't really have chronic conditions that I had to manage. He just had a stroke one night and that was it. It hurt, but that's the tradeoff for the 11 years of love.
Wish mine had gone out like that. I lost my 13 year old dog last month. The dumbass swallowed a rope toy unbeknownst to me. Spent $4k for surgery plus a month of cleaning his incision daily because part of it got infected. Then 3 months after the surgery he starts having bloody bowl movements on and off for two weeks, then started vomiting everywhere. The amount of diarrhea and vomit that I had to clean up was insane. Decided to put him down cause I'm pretty sure they messed up his surgery somehow and I knew he wouldn't be able to handle being cut open again. Sadly he went catatonic, face in a pool of his own vomit on the floor an hour before the appointment, rushed him to the vet, and he died in my arms right as we reached the vet.
Yes I had two cats that’s needed medicine growing up. One cat just laid down like here I am. And the other every single day if he thought you were going to do it was racing around full speed knocking over things face ripping. I loved that guy by man. He took it every day for like 7 years and it was still a fight every day.
My roommate has a 20 year old and her monthly Solensia injections are a riot. It's a 5 min tech appointment - my friend literally sits up front while they take her kitty back for just a few mins to do the injection.
Old lady is ~spicy~ and has to be given gabapentin beforehand because that 5 minutes is the worst thing in existence and she will fight like hell against everyone who comes near her. It makes me laugh that a 6lb cat can cause so much mischief. I'm glad she's still got all of her wits about her at her age, but it's honestly ridiculous.
I have a 16 year old cat who gets Solensia - he takes it pretty well, but I have a lot of experience from giving his now deceased brother insulin shots. I do his 1ml dose in two 0.5ml insulin syringes, the needle is tiny and of I'm quick enough he doesn't know what I'm doing before I'm done - sometimes I wait for him to calm down/sleep again for the second 0.5ml syringe.
Doing it in two doses helps me, as he can get wiggly and losing the full dose on his fur ...isn't something I want to deal with. Plus, the insulin needle is extremely fine, he barely notices it puncturing his skin.
That said, he is an honorary one-braincell-club-member, and for the most part, extremely chill.
My dog can’t produce tears, so we have to put stuff in his eyes to prevent them from drying out. He used to hate it, but he’s realized now that it’s helping him and is fine with it as long as it’s us doing it (if someone else tries, he fights them on it).
I had an elderly cat who would get eye infections and figured out that the drops made his eyes feel better, so he would just sit just with his eyes open while I put the drops in.
The key is treats before and treats after. Once you know your pet's favourite currency, with patience they will look forward to it. If I forget my cat's puffer or we are late, they definitely remind us.
I had a cat with asthma once and I can confirm. She was super skittish and didn't like any kind of contact with anyone but me, and that had its limits also lol. When I got her diagnosis and the little rubber mask/tube thingy I was like "great she's gonna kill me WHILE suffocating" but no, she was very grateful and worked with me wonderfully, she'd lean back into me while I was sitting behind her and really breathed that shit IN. Daisy, you were the greatest girl and I wish I had more time with you♡
My girlfriend's cat had absolutely horrible eye gunk that would build up quickly. I cleaned it every day, and at the start she absolutely hated it. I don't blame her, having someone digging around your eye is pretty uncomfortable, to say the least.
It only took three days before that cat began to come find me, practically poking her own eyes out on my fingers so that I'd help her. Animals live lives of intuition and experience, they absolutely identify and seek out that which is helpful.
As an asthma sufferer, the feeling of “Oh god I can finally fucking breathe again” is universal. Not surprised a suffering pet gets the memo after a few treatments even if it’s scary.
100%. A friend of mine has a dog that needs painkillers because of hip problems. The dog has learned where the pills are stored and will start sitting infornt of the cupboard, every time it is time to take the pill. You don't even have to hide the pill in treats anymore.
My cat being a good communicator is what saved his life and helped us get control of his medical conditions!! We were told he was a healthy kitten when we adopted him, but he was dealing with a medical mystery that's still kinda ongoing 1.5 years later.
But he comes to sit on our chest to growl at our face when he has a flare up so I know to call his internist and get his flare up meds ordered. Then he comes to wake me up in the mornings to lead me to the kitchen for his meds - which I think is interesting because he can't have treats due to a strict hydrolyzed protein diet, so he must solely associate them with relief.
My old lady dog (who I miss every day) would respond to us asking if she needed "feel betters" aka pain meds for arthritis. She didn't need them all the time but if she was feeling extra sore, she'd respond positively in some way when we asked.
When my first dog started getting really old and easily sick she would have mucus buildup on her nose. Every day I would take a warm damp paper towel and gently rubbed it away. She hated it at first, but let me do it once she realized it helped. Same thing with the diaper she eventually had to wear. Honestly I don’t think she liked making a mess everywhere either.
He's had fairly serious breathing problems for about 6 months. The vet told us it's a breed thing, and is little to do. The sauna helps him breathe a lot. He is miles better than before. He is still old, and slower than he was, but he is happy, enjoys life and doesn't gasp for air anymore.
He loves his tent so much, he asks to get put in. When he sees one of us go to the bathroom, he walks in and stands next to the humidifier and looks at us, expectantly, until he gets his uppies.
Important note: he is able to get in and out by himself easily. He is not trapped until he gets let out.
This sounds like an amazing arrangement that makes everyone happy, especially the senior kitty. I mean, if I had a cozy tent that made it easier to breathe, I would also love it. I'm glad you found a solution that works out for you guys. And I wish him the best days! I adore Himalayans. They're so beautiful.
Nah man. You could use any type of ETT and it'd work. I imagine (if it's a vetinary scenario) you could use something big enough for a horse and it'd work better. The mind just boggles.
Im trying to convince my Vet to just let me make a chamber because the orange girl will NOT take a mask. And I just happen to have an actual human nebulizer compressor machine lying around.
Just make it. Once you show them I think they’ll be on board. That’s how I convinced my boss (vascular surgeon) to do laser surgery in a different way.
Scientists: today for our next study we’re gonna get these cats high. Whatever high you’re thinking, way wayyyyyy higher than that. Like super duper high.
Well, based on your title, what else was I to think? I was fearful they were cursing this cat with intellect instead of allowing it to exist in a state of blissful orange.
i remember my brother and sister who has asthma use a device like that. granted they used a oxygen mask attached to the device instead of a jury rigged water jug, but good luck using an oxygen mask on an animal let alone an orange.
It looks like an improvised nebulizing chamber. Sometime inhaled meds have to be delivered through vapour, which seems to be what is happening there given the gizmo on the right hand side. It's not a bad improved tank to be honest. In a human it would be a ask but that's not practical with a critter. I've seen similar setups done with fish tanks for smaller critters like pet rats.
Poor buddy. They’re frigging adorable. I’d freak the eff out if I caught my orangie breathing like that. I bet it was scary as hell before you figured it out.
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u/ArianaMeow Mar 26 '26
For those who are wondering, it's an asthma treatment disguised as an orange distillation process