Antibiotic Tablet & Liquid Form Fun
Vet told me to just drop it in there.... oh i wish it was that easy... i have been trying on and off for the past 20 mins and am trying not stress Wilbut out but i cant get him to take the tablet... Im thinking i may need an extra pair of hands... Ive knelt behind him with the sofa next to me to kind of stop him going anyway then tried to open his mouth at the sides... ive tried hiding the tablet in food whatever ive tried he wont take the tablet... then on top of that i have a syringe im supposed to squirt in his mouth - theres a lot of liquid in there too... i did it yesterday and think more ended up on me then in his mouth after he coughed back up...  |
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| Try some peanut butter on soft bread. Stick the pill in the peanut butter and fold the bread so he can't see the pill, try not to let him see you do it or he won't take it. There are also pill pockets (I think that's the name) that you can buy for just this purpose. For the liquid if he likes yogurt mix the medicine in with a tablespoon or so and let him eat it from the spoon like it's a really special treat. |
| Hmm, does the stuff react with food? if not maybe put it inside a hot dog?
I don't know if this will work but the way we stopped our pup from biting hard may work to get his mouth open. if you can get a little separation of the teeth, fold the side of his lip between the top and bottom of his bite. they don't like clamping down on there lips... the farther back you go the wider he will have to open. That said it will also be alot harder. If you try this I would play with him and his mouth before you do it. otherwise he will associate you touching his mouth with the slight pain or the meds. That may be an incorrect way to teach the dog but it worked for me 
Oh and if you can get his mouth open and the pill toward the back, hold his mouth closed and back, rub his throat with one hand , his natural reflex should be to swallow. Again not sure other peoples view on the humaneness of this, but its quick and use to be really effective for are dogs.  |
infoseeker wrote: That may be an incorrect way to teach the dog but it worked for me
Oh and if you can get his mouth open and the pill toward the back, hold his mouth closed and back, rub his throat with one hand , his natural reflex should be to swallow. Again not sure other peoples view on the humaneness of this, but its quick and use to be really effective for are dogs. That's exactly the prescribed way to do it and it's more humane to do that than have a sick dog... I haven't had to do that for years because my guys are such pigs they will eat pocket lint if I offer it to them. But I remember taking care of one of their breeder's old guys when we put him on an NSAID (meaning every day - yee, horrors!) 12 years old and still strong as the proverbial ox. I thought I'd need a crow bar just to open his mouth. Thing is, practice does help...but I always dreaded it. And it didn't matter what you tried to hide it in. He KNEW  And then he'd give me that: "Do I LOOK stupid?" look.
Kristine |
| I have had great success with dipping the pill in peanut butter which in the process gets some pb on your fingers. I put the pill in the dog's mouth and he/she focuses on licking the pb off my fingers and in the process automatically swallows the pill. |
| We have success in getting our dogs to take their pills by folding them in a piece of velveeta cheese. Just make sure that the cheese if wrapped completely around the pill and our dogs think its a great treat.
Jennifer, Baxter, Cassiopia and Sharkey |
| I agree with all the ideas that others have shared in terms of hiding it in a treat like cheese or peanut butter however, sometimes you have a dog that will outwit you every time with that. My oldest dog would keep the pill in her mouth up to 5 minutes afterward and then I'd find the pill spit out on the rug in the other room. The only way that works with her is to just do the pill popping method. I find this method most stressful for me but, unfortunately, it's the only way. It's the one time that it makes me happy that the other 2 are pigs and will eat anything! |
| If you still can't get the dog to take the pill, you might
have to stick it on the back of the tongue and slide it as far as your finger can reach. I have never had a problem with this method, but it may take a few tries till you get the hang of it. Just remember to give a really good reward immediately after, so he associates your fingers in his mouth with good stuff. As for the liquid, soak it up with a piece of bread and give it just like a treat. Shellie |
| cool well i took about a quarter of wilburs liquid medicine in my eye this morning! LOL
and did a work around on the food/tablet to some success - will head off to the store later today to buy pb and hotdogs! LOL thanks for all your tips! 
5 days with having wilbur and loving every minute... and we where supposed to have got him for our little boy!  |
I walk up behind Chaunce, raise his head scratch his neck/chin, then open his mouth and drop it at the base of his tongue. Then I close his mouth and rub & scratch him some more. Sometimes I'm not sure he notices. He has never fell for the hide it in a treat trick. One reason he's been difficult to train is he is not food driven ( you could dangle a T-bone in front of him, unless it his idea, he's not gonna do it ) 
Our lab ( OTB ) would sell his soul for a treat. He thought his heartworm RX was a treat. He would sit, lay, whatever...he just wanted it. |
Chauncey wrote: I One reason he's been difficult to train is he is not food driven ( you could dangle a T-bone in front of him, unless it his idea, he's not gonna do it )
Our lab ( OTB ) would sell his soul for a treat. He thought his heartworm RX was a treat. He would sit, lay, whatever...he just wanted it. Oh, challenge! I love it!! What DOES Chauncey like? It doesn't have to be food. You might be surprised if you let him tell you what he considers rewarding. (and mine will maul me for their HW meds too - no one every accused them of refinement or taste  )
Kristine |
| Our two dogs have always (well almost always) taken pills just by putting the pills in folded mushy bread (y'know, like white bread, wonder bread).
When we started with Jake, we forced open his mouth and put the pills in the back of his throat and he'd swallow, but it was quite a wrestling match. Thank God we "came up" with the hiding the pill in a treat. It changed everyone's life, no exaggeration! He used to hate getting pills, we used to hate giving pills, and it was 3 times a day. 
Every so often he'd find a pill in the treats so we came up with a method to get him to swallow his treats quickly. We'd give some of the slice of bread with no pill, then follow with the pill doses, then follow with more non-pill bread. Sort of a medicine sandwich. He'd taste that first bit, find no pills and then he'd be good to go. The bit at the end was to cleanse his palate, and to ensure the last dose went down. |
| We are a Pill Pocket family. Tazz takes his pills for CHF every single day in one - with excitement!
The other dogs are sooo excited when they get a med, because they think they are special getting a Pill Pocket too! |
wilbursa wrote: cool well i took about a quarter of wilburs liquid medicine in my eye this morning! LOL
You're not alone. My vet gave one of our dogs Strongid for worms and said it was good, tasted like custard. He'd gotten sprayed before a few times.... and claims he doesn't have worms.  |
Dixie was on 9 pills a day at one time...and she was on a strict diet that did not include anything other than her kibble. We couldn't hide anything in food... 
We (or rather "I") stood behind her, pried her mouth open, and shoved them down to the back of her throat. then held her mouth closed and rubbed her throat till she swallowed. Very gently, and as fast as I could do it...Lots of lovins before and after... This went on for about 4 months...She never complained.....What a sweetheart... |
| With our old dog, you could never use the same trick twice. One time and he had it figured out.
Since I have 3 dogs at home now, I use the competition method. No matter what you have, if you offer it to one dog the other 2 come running. So, you just hold a pill out for one dog and everyone gets so excited that they eat whatever you offer them! I'll also put some peanut butter on a spoon and stick the pill in there. They are so busy trying to get all the peanut butter off of the spoon that they are worried about the pill and it saves my fingers! |
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