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09-19-2012, 07:11 AM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Town Creek, AL USA
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| Milo won't take his pill's anymore I have the hardest time getting him to take his flea pill and heart worm pill. He use to take them really good but now he won't. I have to crush them up and put it into something for him. How do u get your yorkie to take his pills?
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09-19-2012, 07:28 AM | #2 |
Izzy's Momma Too! Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stuart, Florida
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| I take some cheddar cheese, the extremely sharp and smelly kind, and wrap it in that and mold the cheese completely around the pill. Mine gulp cheese down so they don't even chew it LOL Some have had good luck with those Pill Pockets made by Greenies, but I've never used them myself. Good luck!
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09-19-2012, 07:31 AM | #3 |
and Khloe Mae's too! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Eastern Washington
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| I would suggest that you crush them up and mix them in with some yummy wet dog food. He won't know that you put his pills in there, and he will get a delicious treat
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09-19-2012, 07:33 AM | #4 |
♥Momma's Bambino♥ Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Ca
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| I will use Organic baby food, usually like sweet potato or carrots- he seems t o favor those, or I will use Peanut Butter.
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09-19-2012, 07:37 AM | #5 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Well Callie takes her heart worm preventive fine and looks at me like ummm that was good more please. But other medicines I a use a pill shooter the hospital where Callie got her leg surgery done at gave me. It sounds bad but its not it doesn't shoot the pill it just drops it down there throat. Callie has an amazing ability to eat everything around the pill and then spit the pill out. Also when she had to take tramadol there is no tricking her into that medicine I had tried everything. The pill shooter doesn't hurt them unless you do it very wrong. If you get a pill shooter you need to make sure the end/tip is rubber though.
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09-19-2012, 07:43 AM | #6 |
My furkids Donating Member | they eat their heart worm pill like it's a treat! however, when they need antibiotics I take soft food, stick the pill in it and make a tiny meatball out of it...worked everytime! they thought they were getting a treat!
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09-19-2012, 07:47 AM | #7 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Tibbe could spit out his tiny Interceptor pill sometimes but he gulps down his Heartguard in pieces until long gone. When he's balked at other pills, I just put some meat or liverwurst or even peanut butter around the pill or just put it down the back of his throat & hold his muzzle vertical until I see him swallow. Then he gets a praise and hugs, sometimes a treat.
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09-19-2012, 07:57 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Kentucky
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| Heart worm preventive is easy for both of mine but other meds, I will use a small piece of cheese. Works pretty good.
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09-19-2012, 08:02 AM | #9 | |
and Shelby's too Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Millbrook, AL
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09-19-2012, 08:51 AM | #10 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Delaware
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| I remember when my cat was a kitten and we had to give her some medicine in pill form. Do you know it took two of us to get her to take a pill? It was so funny because two 100+ people could not hold her still long enough for her to get her to take a pill. Zoey weigh about 3bls then. Of course we didn't want to hurt her. We would try and disguise it in food, crushed it up, nothing work. She needed to take this pill once a day for like 7 days. It was a struggle the whole 7 days. |
09-19-2012, 09:17 AM | #11 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: benton, ar, united states
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| Sasha has to take a potassium pill every day to prevent bladder stones. They changed the formula and he refuses to eat the new ones. Peanut butter worked for a while but then he started licking it off and spitting the pill out so for now I'm using cream cheese and so far so good. |
09-19-2012, 10:33 AM | #12 |
YT Addict Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Town Creek, AL USA
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| I think he can smell the tiniest bit of a pill. I have broke it into little pices and put it in peanut butter but he will lick around it and lick off cheese so now I will try meat. One day I tried for 30 min trying different thing to put it in. He did start out taking them like it was a treat. Lol. I guess he is smarter that I think.
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09-19-2012, 10:36 AM | #13 | |
♥Momma's Bambino♥ Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Ca
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http://www.petplace.com/dogs/how-to-...dog/page1.aspx Like that I dont "blow on the nose" I rub the throat up and down
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09-19-2012, 10:37 AM | #14 | |
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This is such a hassle, I stopped the Heartguard and am going to try the Trifexis. (ie: kill two birds with one pill...maybe)
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09-19-2012, 10:58 AM | #15 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: At Home
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| I use Low Fat Cream Cheese for mine, they never know pills are in there.
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