Ever seen TV and heard the phrase "Lets give it to mikey...He'll eat it" they then go on to say "Look Mikey likes it!" Well lets just say that has been the complete opposite story with my Mikey. The first time I gave Mikey his dose of Clindamycin the other day, I ended up wearing Most of it...The water appearance was nothing like Mikey thought he was going to get...I think he was looking forward to the cephalexin (pink stuff) he's usually been getting. At first, I scruffed him, and his little nose started sniffing like crazy trying to smell that sweet smell of the pink stuff, only to be met by a foul smell of a nail polish type odor...He sensed something was going terribly wrong, and he crossed his front paws that were supposed to be limp, and started fliping them up and down like a little fish in the water trying to get away. I somehow managed to squirt the first taste in his mouth and all hell broke loose. He hissed, then screamed at me, and I let him down for a few seconds...He lept off the bed and dove straight under the dresser where I could hear him cackling and spitting, and trying to throw up the nasty medicine that I so rudely put in his Majesty's mouth. I rolled my eyes, and snatched the ferretone bottle, and coaxed the sly weasel out from under the dresser...Let's try this again, I said... With my right hand scruffing him, and my left hand holding down his swimming fish feet, and the syringe in my mouth, I managed to squirt the last few drops in his mouth. He was squirming and hissing so much, I nearly dropped him on my bed, I placed him down, and He started cackling, and pawing at his mouth...He made a bee line for my pillow, and spat up some medicine on it, then went under the covers and started rubbing his chin on the bed like he just had a dose of ferretone, only this time he wasnt trying to lick it back up. He THEN had the nerve to come back up to me expecting a treat...boy did he ever get one :) Bananna flavored Yogurt... yummy.... Since that first dose, he's held a small grudge about 30 minutes after I give him his medicine. Today, I was sitting at my computer, and he comes up to my leg, sits on his back feet, and proceeds to claw my leg like a cat does to a scratching post with catnip in it. I picked him up and held him to my face and asked him what he wanted... and he gave me a kiss. That meant the world to me because The last time he gave me one was the day before he got into the chemicals on the boot...So I'm happy to say he is doing a lot better. There is almost no swelling on his chin/mouth and he doesn't tremble when he opens his mouth (maybe once or twice but nothing compared to last week)But just because he's feeling better doesn't mean he gets out of another dose of the evil medicine... muahahahaha :) -valerie, mikey, kokie, jack, buckie, and rosie ===== ~*~*~ VALERIE ~*~*~ ,',', __ \ `'`,/ \ ()o=; `'`','`/ . \/ / ( / \" / \(_ \(_ ~*`~*`FERRETS RULE~`*~`* Missing Noodles at the Rainbow Bridge [Posted in FML issue 4273]