Editor's note: Lee Pickett is on vacation. This column first appeared in 2019. Q: I adopted my grandmother's cat, Sally, who is supposed to take medication but often puts up a fight. How do I get her ...

Giving a cat a pill easily is not as big an issue as it once was since so many alternatives are now available, but a 2017 survey showed that about a fourth of medications sent home for cats are never ...

Next to bath time and nail clipping, administering medication may be the most dreaded chore for pets and their owners. Even the best-trained cat or dog is likely to squirm and claw their way out of ...

Dear Miss Behavin’: My cat, Artemis, doesn’t like taking his prescribed pills. I have tried adding it in his kibble, but he’ll eat around the pill. Are there ways to make the pill more interesting?

At various points in my cat’s life, I have been confronted with the unpleasant task of feeding her a pill. Cats are inscrutable demons whose motives are never quite clear; if I had to feed a dog a ...