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Having Trouble Medicating Fido?
September 4, 2007 |
Have you ever experience this? When opening Fido’s medicine box, Fido is no where to be seen? Hiding somewhere hoping you can’t find her?
This is really common experience for most dog owners. Dogs simply hate medication! Some do not mind though, e.g. My dog casper just swallow anything I feed him, treats or medication alike. I’m so amused and blessed. But he is just one of the many dogs I owned that is easy on medication! The rest absolutely hate medicating!!
Here’s some tips when medicating Fido.
Place tablets in tasty treats they love. Something that he loves so much it is unlikely that he would spit it out. e.g. Cooked pork or beef liver, you can wrap the liver around the tablet. Remember, not to give liver treats regularly. Just when you need to medicate her so she looks forward to the awesome rare liver treats. This works mostly if they swallow the treats. If they start to chew, they will get to the tablets and the yacky taste will cause them to spilt out the treat & medicine.
If that won’t work for your dog, you need to learn this technique. Tilt Fido’s head slightly back, open her mouth and place the pill at the back near her throat and in the middle of the tongue, then close the mouth, gently stroke the throat. Release only when you know he swallows. If not, Fido might just spit it out.
For liquid medication, this is a bit more tricky. You need to make sure you squirk in the medication into his mouth and not outside since Fido might be struggling. Do this by tilting the head back (same as tablet style), place the tip of the syringe in the pouch of the cheek. Then close Fido’s mouth till she swallows. SYRINGE WITHOUT THE NEEDLES! :o)
These methods works for me all the time for my dog Mitzi which I have no other way of tricking her into taking her medication. Of course, after the “ordeal”, I treat her….she knows to expect something good after having fed her medication. Just be confident and quick in your action, your dog wont mind it if it’s fast. Gota be quick, else, she will start to struggle off.
Remember to reward Fido after giving her medication. Who knows, she might not mind it in future since she is getting something good in return!
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