Giving pills?

[slleipnir]

Any easy way to give dogs pills?

Josie is very easy. She takes one phenobarb a day, which I put in her food. She inhales everything. If it was bigger, I would put it in a hotdog. She doesn't usually chew when she eats

Zeke, however, is the opposite. He chews everything. The vet told me to give Zeke one benedryl every 12 hrs for 14 days to see if it clears his "allergies". I put it in a hotdog, but he just spits it all out and eats the hotdog. I can get him to swallow it, but it's not that easy, and I need to sort of hold his mouth closed or else he spits it out. Any easy way to give a pill??

[borzoimom]

We use "magic cheese" alias a slice of cheese, and femka inhales it every night- prances to the kitchen when we say " magic cheese" . she gets thyroid mediction twice a day. ...

[JenBKR]

Oh man I waas going to suggest the hotdog idea, that's what we do w/ Roscoe. Any other soft dog treats that you could use? That's a tough one.....

[My Peanuts]

This is not a problem in my house, but you can try liver sausage or cream cheese. Something that sticks to the pill might help.

[Glacier]

Cream cheese works great for most of my dogs. Stick the pill on your finger, scoop up a big dollop of cream cheese. Dog licks it off without noticing the pill. Anvik is currently on big Cephlaxen pills. This is how he takes them.

I use chunks of Roll-Over too for hiding smaller pills in. Deuce gets his benedryl in those. He'd probably take my whole hand if I gave him cream cheese!

[borzoimom]

Zubin hurt his neck and I did the same with cream cheese.. With femka its daily "magic cheese" and all the others get a piece too...

[dab_20]

Is the benadryl in those caplits? (sp?) If so, you can break them in half to get all the powder out and put it on a peice of bread, cheese, or something else. We used to have to give my RB cocker, Missy, benadryl because of her dry skin and food allergies. That's what worked for us.

[Lady's Human]

Some dogs are just miserable to try to medicate. When we had our ST Bernard when we were kids the only way to get her to take a pill was to toss the pill into the back of her throat and stroke her throat with her nose held high.