How to Give Pets Oral Medication
A spoonful of sugar might be worth a shot in getting your pet to ingest a needed pill, but here's a more successful trick to help the medicine go down.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Give your pet a treat without medication to whet his or her appetite.
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Consider the following for dog treats: a bite-size portion of hot dog, cheese or peanut butter.
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Offer cats a clump of butter; give horses grain with molasses.
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Use the same treat to disguise the pill.
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Break the pill into small pieces if necessary, and wrap entirely inside the hot dog, cheese, peanut butter or clump of butter.
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Grind up the pill for horses, and add to the grain with plenty of molasses to hold the mix together.
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Be sure the treat is large enough to cover the pill or pieces of pill, but not so large that your pet will chew, discover the medicine and spit it out.
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Comments
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very cute god, useful info about pet medication. thanks for sharing.
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very cute dog, very useful info about pet medication, thanks for useful info... Reptile lighting.
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adontos
Jan 14, 2010
Take the end of a hot dog (Maybe a 1/4 inch depending on the size of the dog) and using a knife carve out a round pocket. Insert the pill into the pocket and replace the carved out morsel. Then, voila, give it to your dog! Follow it quickly with another piece of hot dog. -
rainmanmom
Jun 14, 2009
5 stars all the way! thanks! rainmanmom
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xina6
Mar 10, 2009
Encasing the pill in some margarine or butter has always worked well for me, with both cats or dogs.
