How to Give a Cat a Vitamin B12 Injection

We all know how difficult it is to give a cat a pill. However, giving them a needle is much easier, as long as you know how to do it correctly. You must be very careful of the angle that you insert the needle into the tent of skin between the cat’s shoulder blades or you will do damage to the spinal cord. Anyway, this is How to Give a Cat a Vitamin B12 Injection.

Take a new syringe from the package (syringes are single use only, call or visit us to get refills on syringes when needed.

• Draw up 0.25ml of the red Vitamin B12 solution (measure from the top of the black plunger).​
• Pull up the skin between the shoulder blades to create a skin “tent”
• Insert the whole needle into the skin (pointing downward towards the body), make sure the needle has not exited the skin on the other size of the skin “tent”.
• Inject the total volume of Vitamin B12 under the skin.
• Discard the used needle into a Sharps container, syringes are single use only.