Subject: RE: [RC] OT -- Question On
Giving Dog Oral Medication -- THANKS!!
haha! I tried that with my little Aussie.. she's too smart! When we have
storms, she needs doggie downers. She just comes unglued! I've never seen a
dog react to storms the way she does. She'll take her Ace in a piece of cheese
just fine. But if I put it in a hot dog, she completely ignores it. Wont' even
taste it!
HA!
Let me give you a five second tutorial on "making" pill pockets. Buy some
hot dogs, cut them into 1" chunks. Use a sharp knife to cut a slit into
one of them, insert the pill (or half of it, or whatever if its
large), set it aside. Line up all the dogs in the household and start
high speed feeding of chunks of hot dog. If the offered chunk isn't
gobbled, the next dog in line gets it instead. Once the Target Victim
figures out to grab the hot dog chunk while the getting is good, offer
the hot dog with the meds inside, and immediately follow up with another
non-medicated chunk. They'll never even taste the meds as they fly
past.
Susan Garlinghouse, DVM, MS
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Thanks
to everyone who responded with help! One of the best things about the
endurance community is its willingness to share information
and experience.
Here is what we ended up trying: part of Maggie's
treatment for this condition is low fat food. The vet prescribed both
canned and dry food from Hill's Science Diet called W/D. It didn't take
long for my picky dog to reject it, and we were very concerned with her
eating as we didn't want to give the pseudomonas any more opportunites
than it had already taken.
Went to PetSmart today to try to find
something called Pill Pockets, which Lee recommended to me. My next stop
was going to be the grocery store for liverwurst (recommended by Ju li
and by Maryanne) -- which is pretty yucky in my estimation, but whatever,
it was for the dog. The dog "talked" me into taking her to PetSmart -- I
am very well trained, apparently. Unfortunately our local PetSmart
doesn't carry Pill Pockets and then I realized I couldn't leave Maggie in
the car while I schlepped to the grocery store for liverwurst. So I
bought some "aromatic" canned food by Science Diet with a 5% fat content.
It worked like a charm -- for now. I'm still going for the liverwurst and
will order the Pill Pockets online.
I am also going to take Susan G's
advice and use a syringe, since my little rat won't take one of the pills
which is now crushed and sitting in the freezer in fat free frozen
yogurt. Those pills are just too danged expensive to waste!
Thanks
again.
Laurie
Underwood
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