Things You'll Need:
- PATIENCE!!!
- treats (optional)
- toys (optional)
- LOVE (required)
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Step 1
Make sure you are calm and relaxed. Have the medication (usually a pill) in your right hand (if you are right handed).
Have ready your dog's REWARD, whether it be a food treat, their dinner, an activity, or any other special reward that your dog will enjoy. -
Step 2
Call the dog to you and have the dog sit. Stand behind your dog, straddle your dog so that your legs are on either side of them but close enough that your dog cannot wriggle out behind you.
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Step 3
Comfort your dog (make sure you are relaxed as well) and pull the dog's nose up with your left hand until the dog's snout is stretched upwards. At this point it is easy to open the dog's mouth with your right hand and shove the pill down the dog's throat - as far as you can. The dog may wriggle, but if you move quickly, it only takes a few seconds.
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Step 4
Once the medication is in the dog's mouth, hold the mouth (snout) closed with your left hand - keeping the snout upwards!! - massage the dog's throat with your right hand and gently blow in the dog's mouth.
The combined action of throat massage and blowing in the face will NATURALLY require the dog to swallow. Hence the medicine will be swallowed!!!
I have followed this routine for many dogs and once you establish a trust they relax and understand the routine. Good Luck!!!
