Hercules: World's Greatest Masochist! Attempts to pill cat while NAKED!
(If I had a dollar for all the times my late kitty managed to spit it out ANYWAY… Loved this one, Chuck!)
Oh yeah, there were times that we had to give the cats pills, it was such a fun time.
Our very first cat was not 'our' cat. She was a neighborhood cat that stopped at various houses, and ours was the only one she would come in, and we were the only ones she trusted enough to sit on our laps.
One day, we had to take her to the vet, and she was cooperative, until we got home and had to give her pills.
My mother sat down by her on the floor, and started talking to her as if she understood, held a pill up, and said "Do you see this, you need to take it."
The cat hunched herself up, and (I swear to God) said "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and then let out such a hiss. I get it, it was a high pitched howl, but it sounded just like she was screeching "No".
My mom got up, smashed the pill in water on a spoon, and held it out in front of her, and said "You need to take this. Either you take it this way, or we'll need to force you."
Hand to heart, that cat walked up, licked the spoon clean, and that's how we gave her every pill after that.