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Originally Posted by lizbits  So my little man got his surgery last Monday. He is doing well. The hardest thing has been keeping him from jumping. If I turn my back for a second, he's jumped on the couch. I tell him no and try to watch him very carefully, but he still gets a couple by me. We have a check up this Monday.
I have been having an awful time giving him his antibiotic and pain medicine...we hide them in peanut butter balls with the pill in the middle, but sometimes he just eats the peanut butter and leaves the pill! Then he stopped eating peanut butter altogether because he figured out that where we hide it. I tried grinding it up in his food, but he just eats around it somehow. I got an oral syringe to shoot the ground up pill with water in his mouth but he spits about half of it back out ... I got him to eat peanut butter balls today and last night...but he's so tricky!!!! |
I can not stress enough to you the importance of keeping your boy from jumping during this time he is healing. The last thing you want is for him to re-injure it.
A friend's yorkie broke her leg, and my friend had to crate her the 12 weeks it took for her leg to heal. She wasn't taking any chances.
The best way I have of getting them to take the pill, is to open their mouth and poke it way back, then close and hold their jaws, they will swallow it - most times
Good luck and I hope he is all better soon!