How to dispense soft tablets?
ok my dog takes children's benadryl for allergies (yes the vet said to give it to him and gave me the dosage). the problem is he hate it. i can hide pills in peanut butter easily and he loves that but how do i bring liquid medicine in him? i hold tried syringe and eye dropper but that's a big fight and rarely works out.
how do you sneak a dog liquid drug? i hate to hear him cough.
You could try mixing it with canned food but it that doesn't work you could jump back to using a syringe, put it in his cheek instead of down his throat and never feed him his dinner in the past he has taken his medicine or always follow meds near a treat. I'm sure he's smart and if food is a good motivator for him he will swot quickly that its worth the reward. If he isn't food motivated, you could always follow meds with a team game of fetch.
My dog doesn't like getting the juice medicine either however, I use the syringe method. I fill the syringe, instigate his mouth, tilt back his head and squirt it down his throat. he hates it, but it works. tilting the director back is the key I think because it go to the back of his mouth and he really has to swallow it. I immediately distribute him a treat, usually a piece of cheese or some other thing that he really loves.
Answers: i have to give my dog solution and he hates it.. so i went to a pharmaceutical company and purchased some empty gel cap. i open them and put the medicine in them. next i hide the pill in some food.
The syringe is the only mode I can do it. Stand behind him while he is sitting, hold his snout and put the syringe back by his molars and squirt. You can give him a treat quickly after to reward him and it may become easier b/c he'll associate the meds with a treat. That's what we did for my dog's ear drops (he hated) and now it's a piece of cake. Sorry if that wasn't what you required to hear, but I hope it helps you out! :)
Take a look at the dosage. Then if it is less than a human benadryl pill buy the human chewable charitable and downsize it to the right amount. Now hide the pill and administer the way youv'e been have no problems when giving a pill.
Just open his mouth and squirt it in. Or close his mouth and put it in fundamental the back molars.
Try to find something that isn't flavoured. Even if it is a generic brand (read the label guardedly as the ingredients may be different).
Why do you need to use liquid medicine? If he can enjoy pills fairly easy, why mess with a moral thing?
have you tried making a smoothie for your dog with the medicine within it?
or maybe freeze it into ice blocks...i know dogs LOVE ice cubes...
Squirt the meds on his food, but make sure to slap an extra blob of PB on it too. That will cover up the smell and overall engineer it irresistable for the dog!
If you cannot get the juice meds into the side pouch of the cheek, then here's what you do:
Go buy some Velveeta. Take a scoop of the "cheese," make a globe, then flatten it out into a pancake in the palm of your hand.
Now shape the Velveeta into sort of a pouch, put the gooey medicine in there and cooperatively close the pouch.
Give your dog one piece of normal Velveeta (no meds) and make a game out of it. Give a moment piece. Give a third piece. Now give the piece that has the liquid meds and the briskly follow up with another piece of the cheese that has no meds.
Velveeta is some of the grossest stuff on the planet, but it is a wonderful vehicle for medicine! Normally dogs will swallow it right down whether you give piece after piece after piece so this is a great way to get meds down a dog short any kind of fight or hassle.
Good luck!
