 Purred: Fri Aug 14, '09 4:25pm PST |
 | |  | | Since Smokey has to have pills 3 times a day, and she is not good about, learned alot too, mol.
If the pill is really small, you can also put it in a hunk of wet food, about the size of your fingernail.
Found this out, by accident, when I dropped one of her pills, in a hunk, that I bribe her with, to get her to open her mouth, she swallowed it in one breath. Hmmm, that takes care of 2 pills, I just mix them in her wet food, and she eats them all up. And this is med, that as liquid, was not gonna get done, it was all over her, me and the counters.
Her other pill, which is bigger, and not going to fool her with that one, I first dip in in baby food, so she has that taste in her mouth, and will swallow it. I first let her lick a few licks of baby food, so she is thinking about that, them put the pill, dipped in baby food, in her mouth, hold it shut, she swallows it, tastes like baby food, then I give her a few more licks of baby food, as a reward, and to make sure she has swallowed the pill.
This is still a little bit of a struggle, but nothing like it was in the beginning, when she fought like a wild cat.
For horses, if they won't eat it smushed up in their grain, we smush up the pill, mix it with applesause, and shoot it in their mouth. Can't hold down a 1200 lb horse, and shove it down their throat, mol, so one way or the other, always works.
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