good pill tricks

amazonstarlight · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

You mean there is something easier than hog-tying and sitting on top of your dog while saying "please swallow, please swallow"?!?!

Those are some really good ideas. Both of my kids are pretty good at snarfing down anything they can fit in their mouth.

simis · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject:

Have you used a softer, more spreadable cheese - a pub cheese or cheese wiz works well. I get Boursin or Allouette type ones because they are a treat for me too and since I like the ones with garlic flavor, she likes it that much more! Spread it generously over the pill so it's like a nickel sized ball totally covering it.

If Heidi's really good at sniffing it out, you can do the 3 ball trick - give the first ball to her as a treat (no pill in it), she'll want another so have the pill ball ready and follow it up quickly with a third ball of just cheese again. Works on my inlaws CKCS who really knows how to avoid pills.

You can also buy kong stuffing that is like cheese wiz but liver flavor, etc. which works pretty well sometimes it's a bit too runny IMO for pill hiding. Cool whip/Reddiwhip might work too, haven't tried those for pills yet.

NenaGunther · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject:

When we started Nena's Lyme treatment, she wouldn't take the pills, she would find them in the raw food and pick them out! Shocked

So I would take out two small slices of ham (from the deli) wrap them both up, one with the pill and the other with nothing. She would always eat the first one to get the second one!
The first one had the pill, the second didn't.

Lynn is right, liverwurst works good too. Very Happy

cheekycharlie · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject:

charlies a pill finder too if i put it in his food he'll eat around everything. if i try and hide it treats even meat he'll find it, but we have our solution. he loves bananas so i take a piece and slot the capsules right in the middle he so pleased he's having banana he forgets i've put a pill in.

G-Smith · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

If your dog doesn't chew like mine, you can wrap a little bread tight around the pill and pitch it in....

ChloeArnold · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:48 am Post subject: pills

I just center the pill inside a dollop of cottage cheese on top of Chloe's regular dry food. Works every time!

JacksMommy · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:54 am Post subject:

wildlifecr13 · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

canned dog food seems to be working well for now.
big goopy mess of it in with the dry kibble and she cant tell what is kibble and what is pill - it just all goes down.