How do you get your yorkie to take medicine?

[Marcellacml]

if they don't take it willingly or with a treat..I open theyre mouth as wide as I can and put it far down their throat so they can't spit it back up.

[periwinkle]

This is the easiest way to give a dog a pill. Take the pill, if its a whole pill, cut in half. Get some peanut butter, coat entire pill with the peanut butter (you don't need that much). Let the dog sniff it. Make him think you don't really want to give it to him. Gently open his mouth, deposit the pill on the roof of his mouth. He will chew it with no problem. I have never had a problem with this method - it works every time. My dog thinks he's getting a real treat and actually goes to the cupboard when it's time for it!

[I Love Bailey]

Originally Posted by periwinkle

This is the easiest way to give a dog a pill. Take the pill, if its a whole pill, cut in half. Get some peanut butter, coat entire pill with the peanut butter (you don't need that much). Let the dog sniff it. Make him think you don't really want to give it to him. Gently open his mouth, deposit the pill on the roof of his mouth. He will chew it with no problem. I have never had a problem with this method - it works every time. My dog thinks he's getting a real treat and actually goes to the cupboard when it's time for it!

Well, I have done this a few times and it worked ok; this morning though she spit the pill out and licked the rest of the peanutbutter off the roof of her mouth, sat down, glared at me, got up & stalked off. My son was laughing so hard... I bought pill pockets and those didn't work, she would take them and hide them in the corners of different rooms around the house. I gave her amoxicillian this morning by squirting it on a piece of chicken, she ate that.
We are going back to the vets this afternoon.

Michele & Bailey

[periwinkle]

You have to get the pill back far enough on her palate so she can't spit it out.

[chattiesmom]

I am having to give Chattie some meds twice a day right now .... I cooked some beef liver and put it through the grinder and made a pate'.... It is in the refrig, and I take an English pea sized glop of the liver pate' and smuch the pill in the middle. She never knows the pill is there.....

I have also used real butter and cream cheese. You can also get some roast beef lunch meat and wrap the pill -- the trick is to use something that your furkid has placed a very high value upon and only use just enough to "hide" the pill. Usually they will swallow the little tasty tidbit AND then always chase with another teeny tiny tidbit or two. Food bribes ALWAYS work in our house.

[BLowry]

Originally Posted by I Love Bailey

Thank you for all your suggestions. I am going to look for those pill pockets today and see how they work for us.
Last night I felt so horrible shooting the liquid med down her throat and then trying to get her to take the tablet. (that she kept spitting out)
I did finally try peanut butter, it stuck to the roof of her mouth and then she just swallowed it. She doesn't really like cheese, so that didn't work, she just sniffed it and walked away....picky girl.
This morning I crushed the pill and mixed it in with her rice and chicken, now I have 2 more to wrestle with her until this evening when I start all over with all 3......sighhh this is worse then trying to give my kids meds when they were toddlers.

Michele & Bailey

Hi Michele!

Knocking on wood! I haven't had to give either girl meds..yet but, I have had to give meds to my cat...I find squirting the liquid in the corner of the mouth makes them lick and they get spit it out..this has always worked for me.

[I Love Bailey]

Thank you for all the tips, Bailey doesn't really like treats much, unless she smells chocolate , but she doesn't get that...
The vet said she was doing better, she just got a bug of some kind, her labs are all normal, she gained back the couple of ounces she lost and is getting her energy back, she slept so hard last night, she didn't move for most of the night. I wish I could sleep like that LOL


Thanks, Michele & Bailey

[SnowWa]

I've never had any problems.

I just wet the pill or rub butter over it - so it will be slick.

Then quickly (key word - quickly) - I open their mouth - put the pill in it - and with my finger, I push it as far back as possible (way back).

Then their gag reflex takes over and it's gone. I follow this quickly with a treat - a bite of chicken or something that helps make sure the pill went all the way down.

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I don't even let my dog see me getting the pill - when it goes in their mouth, it's a total surprise to them - and it's down before they know it.

Good luck - Carol Jean

[Connie]

Maddie is impossible to give a pill to without disguising it. Two vets tried and wasted one after another. I've tried as I've done it fine with other dogs, but Maddie is a stinker. What works for me is I buy the baby food chicken finger sticks and take about 1/3 of one of them...squish the pill inside and she gobbles it right down! She loves the stuff and doesn't even know there's a pill in there! Good luck!

[Dan & Corinne]

Liquid Medicine:

Squirt the prescribed amount into a piece of bread. Then wrap that bread in a piece of deli meat (turkey) the really thin kind. They gobble it up.

Pills:
I just wrap it in the same deli meat and gulp! It's gone! No mess!

They just think they are getting the best treat ever! I shake the pills and say "want some treat" and they come running and begging for -shhhhh Medicine!

[periwinkle]

I also shake the pill bottle to make Gizmo think he's getting a treat. He will wake up from a deep sleep and come running. It's a big deal because I don't give my dog many treats.

[RLC12345678]

One word.........CHEESE!!!!!! I use sharp cheese bc it is thicker and I can stick the pill in the middle of a small chunch of cheese. Both of mine will swallow it whole using this method. Works everytime!

[magnolia]

If it's pill form, I crush it and mix it with a dollop of plain yogurt - both Gabby and Gage love yogurt and they never know there is any medication in it If it's liquid, I have a baby medicine dropper that I put it in, open their mouth, and squirt in the side of their mouth, near the back - goes down with no problem.

Others have posted some really great advice - some I'm gonna start using

[wnturner]

Wrap in cheese. Works everytime

[missPenny]

We had a large family dog when I was younger. With him, we would just open his mouth and put it so far back on his tongue that he had no choice but to swallow it.

Penny, on the other hand, has had her share of meds. If it's liquid, I force her mouth open and stick the syringe in far enough so that it shoots directly down the back of her throat. If I don't get it far enough back, she will spit it back on me! With pills, I've never had a problem. I act like it's treat time. Get out the peanut butter, put a small amount on either my finger or a spoon, stick the pill in the middle, cover it up, and let her lick it off. The pill always goes right down with the peanut butter.

Maybe if you did it once or twice with the pb and no pill, then try it later with a pill. She won't be expecting it.

I hope you find something that works! Good luck.