Giving a Dog Medication

By

jdrinkwater

My dog had to take 3 pills 3 times a day for a couple of years and she always outsmarted me until I tried cheese. If I made the ball of cheese too big she would eat the cheese and spit out the pill, but a small cushiony ball of cheese she couldn't resist and it worked like a charm.

By

Beth

For pills I had to give my pets I always ground them into a powder and then put it in a very strong smelling wet food that they couldn't resist. Strong smelling is good because it masks any flavor of the pill better. I don't know about the liquid, but you could try to hide it in food as well and have her lick it off your fingers like a real "treat."

By

glowormglo

Our vet used a piece of cheese; worked great and when we tried it. It worked again.

By

mrsjulz

I use a syringe to get liquid medicine down. Pills I use grated cheese. It warms in your hand to completely enclose the pill or place a small amount onto a plastic spoon and pop in the microwave for 10 secs until it starts to melt, poke the pill into it and roll the cheese around. Careful it's hot, but my Topsy loves it.

By

chicken momma

When mine needs pills, I plan on giving the treat in 3 pieces. I break up, lets say cheese, bologna, peanut butter on bread,etc, I feed him the first piece with no meds. second piece gets pill, third piece no pills. If I give him med in first sampling, he figures it out and wont trust another piece. I use a syringe for liquids. good luck. :)

By

wasshrunk

I find that putting the pill in a bit of peanut butter works. Just roll the peanut butter into a ball with the pill in the middle. It works. I used to have a dog that when I gave it a pill in a bit of ground beef, would eat the beef and spit out the pill.

By

HesterRegan

Try a small spoonful of peanut butter. I mix my dogs pills with this. might work to mix in the liquid meds first, then roll pill in this mixture. Most dogs swallow small bits of food whole so this might work.

By

Lorelei

For the liquid, use a syringe w/o needle and if you cut a hot dog up and insert the pill inside one piece, the dog may eat it easily and not even notice the pill. I take a paring knife and insert it through each middle piece and the pill inserts easier w/o going through the middle and out the side. I do this with my dogs and have no problem with them getting it down, but sometimes it takes a second try.

If this doesn't work for your chi, try crushing the pill and mix it with vanilla pudding or as Cricketnc stated, meatloaf.

By

Cricketnc

Does she have a special treat that she loves? Something wet? A little bit of meatloaf, a small amount of canned dog food, even a little bit of people soup (not the creamed kind, but beef soup is good) or stew. Doesn't take much. But put the liquid meds into the food and also grind the pills up and put them in there too. Don't use much food. Just enough to get her to eat it, but only enough so it's not a meal but a treat for her. She should gobble it right up. Especially if you make a big deal out of "it's treat time!" so she thinks she's really getting something special.

How can you give a dog medication if he won't take orally?

Have folks found any treats that work for giving dogs liquid medicine? Our dog will be cared for by a cat-lover who is intimidated at having to open her mouth to squirt the syringe contents in.