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Originally Posted by Rowan123
I'd try American cheese. Put the pill in it and roll it up in the cheese so it forms a ball. Have a second piece of cheese ready. Give him the first piece of cheese with the pill in it. Immediately give him the second piece of cheese. The trick is to get him to swallow the first piece with the pill fast so he can get the second piece.
Alternatively, you could try hiding it in a little wet cat food (the pate kind). Dogs usually love cat food.
You beat me to it. ;D
That's exactly what we do, except with shaved turkey sandwich meat.
Wrap the pill in a smallish piece of turkey, hand it to the dog in one hand while you're holding a great big piece of turkey to offer as soon as he's finished eating the small one containing the pill.
Done. Works every single time. He doesn't even notice there's a pill in the first piece, which he would definitely notice if he weren't trying to wolf if down.
Put a can of Underwood deviled ham in the frig. When it gets cold it gets thick because it has lard I think that's why it tastes delicious instead of tasting greasy. It doesn't take a lot to coat a pill. My dog will fish a pill out of peanut butter but she just gobbles it up with deviled ham.
I'd try American cheese. Put the pill in it and roll it up in the cheese so it forms a ball. Have a second piece of cheese ready. Give him the first piece of cheese with the pill in it. Immediately give him the second piece of cheese. The trick is to get him to swallow the first piece with the pill fast so he can get the second piece.
Alternatively, you could try hiding it in a little wet cat food (the pate kind). Dogs usually love cat food.
[boldd] That's the trick I do that when needed. As for the treats used - the American cheese sounds good but I've also used the shaved ham.
We had a little fusspot and the meat/cheese/peanut butter ideas didn't work. She'd figured them all out.
What did work, was getting jars of meat baby food (Gerber's chicken or beef). I'd freeze it on a cookie sheet in 2 tsp portions and thaw them out as needed. Ours was a toy breed, but if you have a larger dog, you'd go through it quicker and might not have to freeze it.
Anyways, we crushed the pills and mixed it with the 2 teaspoons of baby food in the bottom of a short shot glass. We then dipped a tiny amount on our fingertip and she licked it off. Repeat, repeat, repeat until it was gone.
You do what you've got to do, right?
BTW, you can buy pill crushers at any pharmacy. They turn pills into fine powder.
My dog is on a very restricted diet due to a digestive disorder. However, once she developed a urinary tract infection, my options for hiding her antibiotic inside food were extremely limited, including no possibility of using Pill Pockets, peanut butter, cream cheese, etc.
Her vet recommended that I place her medication inside about a tablespoon of Hill's Prescription Diet a/d Urgent Care with Chicken Canned Dog & Cat Food, and it worked like a charm.
I have used raw Hamburg made into meatballs in the past. If the pill is big enough to choke a horse, break it in half with a serrated steak knife and stick the halves inside two Hamburg balls
Mine is on enalapril and vetmedin but is 13 yo with bad teeth/chf. I grind up tablets with head of the syringe and add a tsp of very hot water and stir til dissolved and add a few drops of honey and draw it up in syringe and squirt into her mouth. She likes it now and looks fwd to it. The vet said it was perfectly fine to do it this way and they also do it this way when she is boarded with them.
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I do that when needed. As for the treats used - the American cheese sounds good but I've also used the shaved ham.
