Hi everyone, Meg has been taking medication for approx 6 months now. I bought Arden Grange Liver paste to wrap her tablets in. Up until Saturday night she would take them, no problem. Sat night and Sunday morning she refused and I had just ordered 5 more tubes so have had to cancel the order. I have now sent off for pill pockets, has anyone used these? This morning I had to give them to her physically. Don't like doing that, she has 5 to take at the moment in the morning but only one at night so that's not too bad. Pill pockets should arrive today so will try them tonight and let you all know. Jen
Re: Fussy Meg not good. I hope they work. I'm lucky that Harley will take all medication without being in wrapped or covered in anything
Re: Fussy Meg [quote author=lablover link=topic=4308.msg51958#msg51958 date=1391441717] Hi Karen, Yes she will, but she's not stupid, eats the cheese and spits tablet out. [/quote] Oh gosh, you've got to love them.. :
Re: Fussy Meg When one of my dogs had to have twice daily anti seizure drugs , I used to buy tubs of pate from the supermarket , the most highly smelling one possible, and dip the tablet in to coat it well , always worked for Lily x
Re: Fussy Meg We use wafer thin turkey ham, again because it's smells so strongly! Could you mould it inside of a cheese slice maybe, they're like plasticine (that doesn't look right written down).
Re: Fussy Meg I used pill pockets once but I don't remember them working too well... I've always found cheese to be pretty good. I had a dog that was really unwell with kennel cough in one of my kennels once. He wouldn't eat anything but had to have meds. I used to cut up about six or eight cubes of cheese and hide the tablets in one or two. Gave him a couple of 'empty' cubes first and then a tablet one then an empty one etc so he never knew which one had the meds in. Pate sounds like a good idea, you could roll it into a small ball around the tablet.
Re: Fussy Meg Peanut butter can work as a pill coating. We also use the cheap cheese method. Or a cube of ham with a pocket cut into it, into which you put the pill. 5 tablets is a lot of ham cubes though... TM, yep, that's how you spell plasticine
Re: Fussy Meg Thanks folks, Don't think pill pockets are going to work. She's very suspicious is my Megs bless her. I like the idea of the pate and peanut butter. Will try that. I've tried cheese and ham and like I say, she's not stupid, she eats the cheese or ham and then spits the pill out. The arden grange paste was like pate but thing is with Megs she gets bored with having the same thing so will go and buy some peanut butter and pate. At least if she won't have it I can!
Re: Fussy Meg Will she catch food in her mouth if you throw it? My old dog, a weimeraner, would snap up food thrown, so we'd hide tablets in cheese, chuck a couple of empty ones & praise her for catching it, then the pills would be chucked & finish off with an empty one. She'd gobble them down so quick. If we just hand fed it, she'd literally suck off the cheese and spit the pill out
Re: Fussy Meg Hi Kate, This'll make you laugh. Meg never caught a ball in her mouth if you threw it to her when she younger. Think I've got an odd ball for a lab. She would never retrieve a ball if we threw it for her, didn't matter how much training we tried, she preferred to play football, tap the ball to her and she would tap it back, but if a child threw a ball she would go and retrieve and bring it back. Make you laugh don't they?
Re: Fussy Meg Got some pate today and yay, no probs with tablets. Another problem solved. Thanks to everyone for advice. Jen
Re: Fussy Meg very happy you solved the problem!! As much as i curse Odin's "everything that fits in my mouth is for me to eat" attitude sometimes, i was very glad he wolved down his diarrhea pills like the were made of Kobe beef ;D ;D ;D ;D
Re: Fussy Meg [quote author=lablover link=topic=4308.msg52398#msg52398 date=1391602819] Got some pate today and yay, no probs with tablets. Another problem solved. Thanks to everyone for advice. Jen [/quote] Super, really pleased she likes it!
