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I need tips or tricks Brutus is on liquid meds for the next 8 days. The first time went ok. Now if he sees the medicine he runs. It takes 2 people and it's still not an easy task. He hates it, claws, shakes his head from side to side, has his teeth clenched and squirms so much that it is hard to keep him still. He honestly did better getting shots than this. Anyone have tips to make this process easier as I now think I dread giving him his meds more than he does. |
They have gelatin capsules sold at health food stores. I melt a little cheese in microwave and put that on pills and let the cheese harden, they never lick the cheese off, they swallow the pill whole. Some people swear by cream cheese, but you want to use something that they like so much that they will swallow whole. How big is the dose? I'm wondering if smearing cream cheese on a dropper would help? |
It's given using a syringe as it is liquid. His dose is .5 ml. He refuses to open his mouth to get the syringe in - he may be little (7 lbs) but when you are holding a wiggle worm, he seems VERY strong. The vet said to give it to him on the side of his mouth, so I guess they have experience that dogs hate the taste of it. He is on Clavamox Drops. Any tips would be great! |
I'll try smearing cream cheese on the dropper - I only worry how his tummy will tolerate it - he has a very sensitive tummy and has been on a diet of half i/d soft food and half kibble. |
I hate to tell you to be sneaky with liquid dosing, but I have had to at times...even with skin kids. I have put the dose in a syringe and then squirt it all at once as far back as possible, then hold the head a bit upward and stroke under the chin. Be ready to do this quickly...get everything put together a bit ahead and wait and watch for the opportunity. Come from behind with your baby looking the other way, if you're right-handed use your left to hold his head and the right to administer the dose. Learned this trick on my oldest skin kid after wearing a lot of phenobarbitol but found it works with animals, too. Also, I have sometimes had to wait for the dose until the animal falls asleep (cats don't like bubblegum flavored Clavamox...lol) , then put the syringe tip under the cheek toward the back as far back as possible without waking him, depress the plunger...the animal will most likely wake up immediately, and lift its head toward the side you put it in and maybe open its mouth, so be ready to close it so the dose doesn't just run straight through the other side...have some toweling handy...lol...you'd want to be ready to steady it, keep the mouth closed and the head lifted for a few seconds until the swallowing is completed. Also, if the medicine will freeze, you can then break it into pieces, coat each in a smidgen of peanut butter or wrap it in a hunk of butter...whichever your pet likes...cats don't seem to care for peanut butter...lol...and give every other piece as a treat, first a frozen bit with nothing in it 'cuz they might be skeptical of the first one, then meds...which if they taste it, might make them skeptical of the 3rd, etc. Did this trick with a tablet, too, using p-butter for a Chi with a pill flea protection. My bigger dogs would catch their meds 'cuz I'd make a pill-pocket out of and wrap them in butter, hype the dog up for the treat and give it a flick into the air. No pill ever hit the floor at my house...lol Whatever you do, do not make a 'production' of it. The 'sneaking' of a much needed med into your baby will be defeated if the animal has a clue, and one thing that all the animals and kids I've had to do this kind of stuff to have taught me is they have more than one clue! lol Good luck...sorry he needs meds in the first place...poor baby. |
I'll try giving it during sleeping also, but he is quick and smart. He rarely sleeps when we are home unless it's bedtime and we are in bed together. If action is going on, he isn't going to miss out. His neuter site is infected - got neutered the day after Thanksgiving - so how odd is that? The first meds we had for him made him vomit, so this is our second try. Thanks! :) |
I found some gelatin capsules made for dogs they are flavored with bacon, beef, or chicken. DOGcaps™ & CATcaps™ Here's the chicken flavored in, I think, the size you need. DogCaps™ Chicken Flavored Capsules Size 1 Pack They do have Clavamox in the pill form, maybe you should get that next time. |
My mom had bad problems giving Sammy his antibiotic after his dental so my dad bought a needle and they injected it into a chewy dog treat and he ate it with no problems. |
I dip the tip of syringe in nutrical (which he loves) and once he starts licking it off I squirt it in! Not sure if your baby likes nutrical but Tank does so this worked extremely well, he was on a liquid med for 2wks and before I figured out this trick it was awful trying to give him his meds! I hope you find a trick that works for you! |
for actual pills, I use the pill pockets, they are great |
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