Giving Your Pet Medication Just Got Easier

Written on April 7, 2008 by Holly · Filed under Pets

Pill Pockets Giving medication to your pet is sometimes worse than getting your child to swallow that disgusting spoonful of cough medicine. They refuse to take the medication willingly and in most cases, pet owners must resort to holding their pet down and slipping a capsule into their mouths and hope they don’t just take it into another room and spit it out.

I got my cat spayed about a year ago and while still at the vet office the next morning, she had ripped all of her stitches out and within a few days of bringing her home, she had an infection from the stitches and the vet having to restitch her. In addition to the normal medication I had to give her, I also had to give her an antibiotic for the infection. Now, I have an unnatural love fr my cat, I treat her as well as people treat their children and seeing her in any kind of pain or discomfort at all had me welling up with tears, so giving her the two medications twice a day was agony for me–and she didn’t like it much, either.

I recently found a great item that makes giving pets medication easier than ever–Pill Pockets. Staying true to hiding capsules in food, Pill Pockets, made by Greenies, are treats for pets that you can easily put a pill in and feed to your pet. They are made for cats as well as for dogs and would most definitely be an asset for any person having trouble with giving their pets medication.

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  1. Mark on April 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    First!! I always wanted to say that! This is great. you really have no idea. I watch my girlfriends cat from time to time and i have a heck of a time trying to get her to eat her medication. Even if i put it in the food she still won’t eat it. I’ll take a look at this and maybe give it a try. Thanks for the info.

  2. Jolene Blalock on April 8th, 2008 at 6:22 am

    Great article! I Too have to take care of my friends pet every now and then, and this info is quite useful!

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  3. Destiny on April 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Thanks for sharing this. For sure, it’s definitely helpful. When I went to the vet, that’s what she did, hid the deworming pills in some chewable treats and the dogs ate them with no complications. ^_^

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  4. Carolyn on April 8th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    My otherwise loving dog is vicious when it comes to taking pills. Disguising them in food doesn’t work - he caught on to that years ago. Pill Pockets are the only thing that works.

  5. Aurelius Tjin on April 9th, 2008 at 2:00 am

    Thanks for this great info! I am a pet lover and this information will surely come in handy when I needed it for later. :)
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  6. Ohyeaa30 on April 9th, 2008 at 9:31 am

    This is fantastic. I get to tired of stuffing the pill into velveeta only to have the dog lick the cheese and leave most of the pill!

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  7. Gadget man on April 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    If only they did this for parrots, have you tried giving medication to an African Grey!? Not easy!

  8. Heather on April 10th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    We’ve given up trying to give our cat pills. This is about the fourth cat between the two of us and he’s a small bear. Even two of us working together cannot get a pill in him. It’s so bad we’d rather just pay the vet, we’ll give this a shot, hopefully he’ll actually eat it.

  9. Sandra on April 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am

    This is brilliant! At least it’s worth trying, I will.

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  10. Faraz Ahmed on April 14th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    When my dog gets sick and its time to give her some medicine, I hide the pills in some food like bread or within a piece of meat and then put it in her mouth, yup in her mouth, if I put the food in her plate she seems to lick the food and leave the pill :)

    but when I put it in her mouth myself she does not want to spit out the food and just swallows it :)

  11. Dog Beds on April 14th, 2008 at 3:56 am

    Very nice post thanks for that information…Actually I got dogs and 2 of them always got sick, Mha-ih and Sangro…I find so hard dealing with them when they are sick…Hope I find the right and easy way to deal with them when they are sick…

  12. Woody on May 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    My chocolate lab hates taking pills too. I will have to check these out, thanks for the article!

  13. Puppy Training on May 8th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    Although my chocolate lab will take pills with no disguising required, I think this idea is great for many pets that, unlike my dog, don’t swallow anything and everything at a moment’s notice without asking questions! Good product.

  14. Animal Shelter Support on May 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    I have never seen these before but what a great idea.

  15. Labradoodle on May 31st, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    I heard of these before but didnt know the make or much about thm at all. My labradoodle just plain refuses to take any kind of medication, hopefully now i can try these instead. thanks for the post!

  16. canine cremation urns on May 31st, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    Every time I see a great product I say why didn’t I think of that. Simple but effective.
    My trick for giving pills to my dogs is wrapping it with some cheese, but then again sometimes they pick it out.

  17. Monavie on June 9th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    I’ll have to grab some of these for my dog, he has seizures so I have to hide his pills in bread. He gets rather suspicious of it now though. I don’t think he’ll be able to resist the smell of these treats though.

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