Cat scram:We recently branded as rather obvious...

Cat scram:

We recently branded as rather obvious the instructions on some cat medicine to give the animal two tablets “by mouth.”

Don’t assume anything, counters Gayle Robison, a Woodland Hills vet. She recalled the unusual case of one feline patient.

“The cat was presented for a moderate case of diarrhea,” Robison said, “and I dispensed a liquid medication similar to Kaopectate with instructions to administer one big squirt, twice a day. The client called back in a few days to beg me for an alternate treatment. When I asked why, he replied, ‘Well, he yells and screams and bites terribly when we grab ahold of his tail and try to squirt it in.’ ”

Adds Robison: “Now you know why we have to be so explicit about those little pills!”

The vet also brings up another point: “Kind of makes you wonder what half the people in the country are doing with their Kaopectate. . . .”

IN A FOG? Speaking of ambiguous doctors’ instructions, we wondered if a photo by Bob Padgett of Manhattan Beach indicated that one local hospital had a section for cases it wasn’t sure about.

Then, again, “Unclear Medicine” would also be a pretty good description for this era of managed care.

THE SMELL OF SUCCESS? There isn’t much at Dodger Stadium. Watching the Dodgers, we were reminded of a pungent product that honored Chavez Ravine years ago (see photo). Sorry, it’s no longer being made, in case you were thinking of buying it for Father’s Day.

L.A. INSULT OF THE WEEK: A colleague saw a license plate that said NO ON LA--in San Francisco, of course.

Which reminds us that the two bond issues for a new San Francisco football stadium were approved by voters up there, ending the 49ers’ talk of moving to the City of Angels.

In other words, Bay Area voters said NO ON LA.

Of course, a 49ers move down here might have resulted in a lawsuit being filed by Cal State Long Beach, whose teams are also nicknamed the 49ers (the school was founded in 1949).

We’ll never know now whether San Francisco would have taken our suggestion and renamed the team the 405ers as a salute to our freeway culture.

LAUNDRY LIT: Our latest passage of washing instructions came from Merv Kopp of Thousand Oaks, whose Australian-made jacket warns the wearer: “Do not wash with detergent or soap powders. Do not dry clean. Do not machine wash. Do not iron. Do not leave soaking.”

So what can you do?

This: “Sponge down or hose off any surface dirt. . . .”

Maybe this treatment should be applied to the Dodger players to snap them out of their lethargy.

miscelLAny:

Joe Nevarez of Monterey Park noticed that the 1997 Mexican American Historical Calendar points out that in 1930, “the U.S. government declared that Mexican immigration was becoming a serious problem and had to be controlled.” The calendar adds that a century earlier, the Mexican government declared that American immigration into Mexican territories was becoming a serious problem and had to be controlled.