How To Teach Your Dog To Take His Medicine
If you have dogs you know how difficult it could be to give them medications. They hide, run, fake that they took their pills and later on spit them or they hold the pill under their tongue. Dogs can be very creative when it comes to not taking their pills. As a dog owner who care about your dog, you need to make sure that your dog take his medication and/or vitamins. If you want to learn more about how to easily give your dog it’s medication read below.
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Title: How To Teach Your Dog To Take His Medicine
Author: Dr. Mayra Alfonso
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With todays advances in veterinary medicine, many dogs live long active lives, as with their human families when they get older it may become necessary to give your dog medication.
This can be either a trial or a little simpler, it is seldom easy!
Again as medicine advances more and more medications for dogs have a tasty flavor in a chewable tablet. Some dogs will take these easily, however, there are some that have a bitter taste, and you must force your dog to take them.
As I mentioned earlier, some dogs can actually keep a pill in their mouth for a while and spit it out when you leave the room, yes, they can be very deceptive about this.
Always go to your dog when giving medication, if you call him to you to give it to him, he may begin to fear coming to you, especially if it is given at a specific time of day. If you always call him at 7 a.m. and give him a pill, eventually he will stop coming to you at 7 a.m. even though he might still come to you at any other time of the day!
The best way to teach your dog how to take a pill, is by giving him/her some commands. To give your dog a pill, give your dog the sit command, use one hand to open the mouth, a command such as “open” may eventually make this process easier if you give your dog pills frequently.
Tip the head back and using the other hand drop the pill as far down the throat as possible, close the mouth and rub the throat, when the dog swallows the pill has been taken.
If he/she is an escape artist, try holding him with your knees behind his head. If you are unable to give your dog a dry pill, try hiding it inside part of a piece of meat, piece of cheese or peanut butter, but be aware that a dog can and may separate the pill from the food.
It might be necessary to crush the pill, mix with sugar water and give it to him with a syringe, to do this, put the syringe in the side of the dogs mouth and squeeze the medicine in.
Cough syrups or any other type of liquid medication is given this way, and your vet will provide you with a syringe for this purpose.
A dog can be taught to take medication, it is a long process, don’t loose patience with him, it is worth the work.
I hope you enjoyed the information I shared with you in this article. I know how frustrating could be to beg your furry best friend to take his/her pill and not been able to do much about it, every time they spill it out, now you have some tools on how to do it easy and relax manner.
Have a great “cool dog” day,
Dr. Alfonso
