Giving Your Pet Medication Just Got Easier
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 for 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.
Mark on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 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.
Jolene Blalock on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 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!
Destiny on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 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. ^_^
Carolyn on Tue, 8th Apr 2008 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.
Aurelius Tjin on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 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.
Ohyeaa30 on Wed, 9th Apr 2008 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!
Gadget man on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 1:01 pm
If only they did this for parrots, have you tried giving medication to an African Grey!? Not easy!
Heather on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 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.
Sandra on Fri, 11th Apr 2008 10:03 am
This is brilliant! At least it’s worth trying, I will.
Faraz Ahmed on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 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
Dog Beds on Mon, 14th Apr 2008 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…
Woody on Sat, 3rd May 2008 2:20 pm
My chocolate lab hates taking pills too. I will have to check these out, thanks for the article!
Puppy Training on Thu, 8th May 2008 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.
Animal Shelter Support on Thu, 22nd May 2008 2:05 pm
I have never seen these before but what a great idea.
Labradoodle on Sat, 31st May 2008 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!
canine cremation urns on Sat, 31st May 2008 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.
Monavie on Mon, 9th Jun 2008 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.
Anita on Sun, 17th Aug 2008 10:33 pm
I was looking for a solution for giving medication to my dog who suffers from German Shepherd’s Pyoderma.
I’m sure this will help.
Anita
Vet Media on Mon, 13th Oct 2008 6:00 am
I met Dr Marty Becker recently (he’s the vet who promoted pill pockets on Good Morning America). As far as can tell, Dr Becker’s promotion is quit genuine. I haven’t tried them but most sources suggest that they work really well. Dogs are unbelievably skilled at detecting pills! Amazing!!! If only they could detect all the lose change I’ve dropped over the years.
Jan on Sun, 30th Nov 2008 10:40 pm
For the first three weeks that I gave my cat Tiger the medication in the pill pockets she took it happily, but now when I open up the pills she runs and won’t even take with the pill pockets. I have been scratched and hissed at just for her to spit the pill back out. I am wits end with her. She needs to take this medication two times a day because she has epilepsy and she is only two years old. Are there any other solutions or flavors besides chicken or seafood? Please help.
linnie on Fri, 26th Dec 2008 9:07 pm
Your pet will love Pill Pockets but one thing is very important….Don’t let the medication that may get on your fingers touch the outside of the Pill Pocket. If you always use a clean hand to handle the Pill Pocket and the other the medication your pet will not catch on. Just like human medicine, pet medicine has a bad taste and that can transfer from your fingers to the Pill Pocket resulting in the pet refusing both.
Entwicklung Medizinprodukt on Sun, 18th Jan 2009 7:59 pm
Great idea, pets are hard to feed for their medication now it will make it easier..
Fabuloustalk on Sat, 14th Mar 2009 3:22 pm
I used to have a pet rabbit who always refuse when it comes to medicine. She will turned away or run away whenever we feed her medicine. However, it is still important for us to feed her the medicine in order to keep her healthy back, so we sort of have forced it on her.
Norte Vita on Fri, 24th Apr 2009 1:04 pm
I really appreciate this post! Thanks for the great ideas shared i learn a lot from it. I love to use “Natural Products” proven and safe in our health. I will come back often.
Thanks,
Norte Vita