Inducing emesis in cats: what's to be done?

Cats do not tend to ingest poisons as often as dogs do, this we know, and therefore the scenario in which one may be considering inducing emesis in a cat is encountered less often. That said, the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS), based in the UK, gets more or less one telephone enquiry a day about a cat that has ingested a toxin (personal communication, 2014) so it is not totally unheard of! I am going to skip some of the other talking points about gastrointestinal decontamination, especially in cats, here and just consider the circumstance in which it has been decided to induce emesis in a cat. What are the options?

Journal bits 'n' pieces 001 Dog blood types and Methocarbamol CRI

These ‘journal bits ‘n’ pieces’ blogs are meant to be summaries of the background to and findings of interesting journal articles I come across without any intention to discuss the methodology or critique the papers.