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i know this will sound stupid... but dont discount it unless yu have tried it because if it works it is so easy and stress free that you will wonder why you didn't try it earlier.. crush the tablet to powder and sprinkle it on the food.. of course some tablets you aren't able to do this because of the special coating on them so check with the vet first.. But i feed tablets to Harri this way... just give her a small portion(maybe a tablespoon) of wet food in her bowl.. with the tablet powder on top... the powder "disappears" into the wet food.. the only thing to add is that sometimes i give her a smelly /fishy food so if the pill is a little bitter the strong taste of the food masks it |
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It depends on the medication I suppose doesn't it Jo, and what it tastes like! I know on the couple of occasions I tried this method I had to discard both food and medication as it was a no-go. But certainly worth trying once to see if it works . . . |
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the other thing i just remembered... and im not sure if it's available where you take your pets....my vet will (if asked) grind up suitable medication, make into a liquid and flavour with fish/chicken/beef or any other of about 15 different flavours.. then it can be dispensed either into food.. or squirted into the mouth with a syringe.. I had this for Tinky Winky earlier this year.. but because of his protein allergy the vet just sweetened the liquid because a lot of the flavours had protein in them.. much easier to shoot a small amount of liquid in the mouth than a pill! |
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I agree that liquid is easier t administer. Leia is impossible to pill, but when she had cystitis I was able to get the liquid antiinflammatory in her! |
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I love pillgivers! Save my poor fingers  Another trick which I sometimes use, depending on the medication of course, is to crush the tablet, pop the powder into a small (2ml) syringe and add a bit of warm water then syringe into the mouth-not quite as easy to spit back out.  |
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