OK, gang, I need your help.......

[poltr1]

I've realized that I can't do everything alone. And as smart as I am, I certainly don't know it all. I need to get advise and/or expertise in the following areas:

• Giving pills to a cat. One of my cats -- Oreo, the 17-year-old black-and-white one -- has a heart condition. Our vet has given him some pills. But when we give it to him, he spits it out. Our next step is to grind up the pill using a mortar and pestle, slip it in his moist cat food, and keep the other cats away while he eats.
  
• Setting up Windows 98 SE to send and/or receive faxes. I'd like to be able to do this from home instead of running over to the local Kinko's for faxing.
  
• Memory management in Windows 98 SE. I have 256 Mb of memory in my system, and it appears that it's no longer enough. I sometimes hit 0% availability, which causes all sorts of snafus. (I can probably put one more chip in, if 100-MHz SD-RAM (I think) memory is still available.) Is there a program, similar to NT/2000's Task Manager to show me what background programs are taking what percentage of memory? I've tried to trace memory leaks, but I haven't found any.
  
• Advice on wireless routers. A low priority on my wish list is a wireless router (802.11g) and card for my laptop. I'm in a condo where I share walls with neighbors. Can signals seep through these walls? Will simple encryption be enough to prevent any of my neighbors from hacking in?
  

Comments

[trystel.livejournal.com]

Cat pills - My folks have an older cat as well, and have to give her pills twice daily. There is an injector-type tool that they use (and I've used while they are on vacation) that totally works. It looks like a long, thin syringe. You put the pill in the little claw at the end, then stick it way down their throat and release it. It's too far back for the cat to spit it back out.

[poltr1]

Can you tell me more about this pill-injector device? Sounds intriguing.

[trystel.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the delay. Was at Baycon, and not much online. Now back home and just did a brief search. Here's a link that describes it fully.

Pill Gun

[poltr1]

Ah. I picked up something like this at the vet yesterday.

I've also tried the mortar-and-pestle approach: pulverize the pill, slip it into some moist cat food, mix it up, and give it to the cat who needs the meds. The two problems I found with this approach is 1) the cat who needs the meds might not eat the food (mine often walks away from it, especially if the other cats are nearby), and 2) other cats will want to eat the food.