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07-18-2010, 07:26 PM | #1 |
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| How Do You Give Your Dog Medicine I'm curious. How do you give your dog medicine? If I give Cooper a pill, I have to give about 1/4 jar of peanut butter (so it seems) for him to take it. If I try a syringe, it takes 6 people to hold him down and then 1 to shoot it all over the kitchen. So, I have found the perfect method. Cooper now takes 5ml of Zyrtec per day. I poor 5ml of the medicine into the dosage cup and then put about 2 ml of water in with it. He licks it up like it's the best treat in the world!
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07-18-2010, 07:30 PM | #2 |
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| I usually try to have it compounded into a chicken flavor liquid and then use a syringe to give it to them. If it is a pill, I use cheese and make it like a treat.
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07-18-2010, 07:54 PM | #3 |
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| Cheese! I wrap the pill up in cheese, give it to Jackson, and then softly hold his mouth closed while he swallows it (otherwise, he will spit the pill out!)
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07-18-2010, 07:54 PM | #4 |
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| I use a pill popper (bought from my vet). Have the dog sit between my legs on the floor, gently grab the upper jaw with my left hand, stick fingers in both sides till mouth opens just wide enough to insert pill popper, gently and slowly advance pill popper preloaded with pill, till way back in the throat, expell the pill and hold the mouth shut till dog swallows, and usually sticks her tongue out when swallowing. If not, I blow gently into her nose (will make them swallow), and massage the throat. This is what I did when she first was put on meds. Now, after a year, she'll come to me and just lets me do it, no restraint at all. It can be a pain, as this med cannot be given with food, so that limits many options, but she gets a lot of praise and a toy after taking her meds. She especially likes being told how pretty she is... and being made over and kisses. The liquid I give her measured in a syringe, then stick the tip between her teeth on the side of her mouth, while holding her head up, expel the contents into her mouth, holding her head up till she swallows it all. I used to put it in her food, but it's very sticky and she ended up with alot on her face fur. I don't use the pill popper on my CT dog. His pill I hide in chicken baby food, but I give him a little taste first before hiding the pill in the second 1/4 tsp of baby food. Then another taste to be sure he swallowed the pill. Your method is great. Any way you can get them to take their meds that works is good. The less stress the better. It is different, too, when medicating a dog that is on meds for the rest of their life, as opposed to two weeks or a month of meds for a curable problem.
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07-18-2010, 07:57 PM | #5 |
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| When I give them their heartworm pill I put it in cheese.
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07-18-2010, 08:33 PM | #6 |
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| For pills, I stick it inside a piece of chicken. If it is for Daisy, I stick the pill inside a blueberry. For liquids, I just shoot it by syringe into their mouths and always give a treat after and tell them how good they are.
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07-18-2010, 08:38 PM | #7 | |
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I learned not to make a huge ordeal about it, not to chase her around the house and she is now very accepting. She's such a good girl.
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07-18-2010, 09:05 PM | #8 |
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| For pills, I put them in a little peanut butter. For liquid, it depends on the dog. With my picky Maltese, I grab a little bit of her hair under her lower jaw to hold her face still, then put the dropper in her mouth and in it goes. For my previous Yorkie, all I had to do was start to put the liquid in the dropper, ask her if she "wanted her medicine," and she would some and sit next to me on the floor. As I lowered the dropper, she would tilt her head back and open her mouth, even for the nasty tasting stuff. She would eat anything. For Jezebel, I have only had to give Sentinel (heartworm/flea pills), and Peanut butter works fine .... haven't had to try liquid meds yet.
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07-18-2010, 09:20 PM | #9 |
YT 500 Club Member | GREENIES PILL POCKETS seriously guys there awesome they come with a hole cut out you pop the pill in pinch it closed and hand it over my picky penny LOVES them. Penny also knows the command Open with a finger on her nose and a finger on her lower jaw she pops her mouth open for me
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07-18-2010, 09:22 PM | #10 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | I use Greenies pill pockets. They are little cylinder-shaped treats with the consistency of playdough. They have an indentation in the middle so you can put the pill in and then pinch it shut. Every month, Thor will do around six tricks in a row for these, he loves them so much. Since they are so soft, he doesn't chew them, so I never have any problems with him discovering heartworm meds inside. I've never had to give him liquid medicine. ++++ I see I posted at the same time as PenniesMom. Yeah, pill pockets rock.
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07-18-2010, 09:35 PM | #11 |
YT 500 Club Member | lol i would have never tried them but our vet gave her one i said she wont take treats from strangers she goes i bet she'll take this and darned if she didnt shes way to smart for cheese she eats the cheese off and leaves the pill but like Quicksilver said there sooo soft they just gulp them
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07-19-2010, 03:35 AM | #12 |
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| I use greenies pill pockets too... I wish I had known about them when our first dog, Freeway was sick. He got meds everyday and the only way I could get them into him without shoving them in cheese (and even then, he'd eat the cheese and spit out the pill) was to grind them up, mix them with water, and syringe them into his mouth. It was a battle each and every day. Mya and Oliver LOVE the pill pockets, I never have to worry about them not eating their heartworm meds. Mya was on liquid meds after her spay, they gave them to me in pre-measured syringes which was great. Just gotta make sure you get the syringe in far enough, but she did great and seemed to even like the taste. I kept a few of the syringes just in case!
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07-19-2010, 04:12 AM | #13 |
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| My guys are too trusting...if I say "Sit" they think its a treat, and just eat it. Suckers My vet always quarters any medicine, so they are always tiny pills. |
07-19-2010, 04:23 AM | #14 |
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| For liquids I use a syringe for pills I use liverwurst they think it's the best treat in the world. I did use cheese before finding they liked liverwurst but they cAught on
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07-19-2010, 06:30 AM | #15 |
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| I've never heard of Greenies pill pockets. That might work well for Sentinel.
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