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- [Narrator] You've just gotten back from the veterinarian
with all of these medications and you're wondering
how am I going to get them into my dog?
In this vlog we'll show you tips and tricks on how to
medicate your dog including how to pill your dog.
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Wait this is not working.
- If you just put the pill on their tongue they will
definitely get it out.
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- All right, so the biggest question is how do we get pills
into our dogs or cats?
So in the last clip I told you that
one of the ways that I get our pills in our dogs Penelope
and Matilda is I put them in our food.
In general guys that can be a little bit risky for
a couple of reasons because if they don't eat their food
you're not going to be sure
if they're getting their medication.
For Matilda and Penelope they're very good
eaters and I know these medications, so Matilda's heart
medication and Penelope's medication for her
diabetes insipidous, they're small and they don't taste bad
and I make sure that they eat food within seconds, that
their pills are eaten every day.
But you need to be careful,
there are some medications like metronidazole, which is a
common diarrhea medication, tastes really bitter so you
don't want to put that in their foods, so how are we going
to get our pills into our pets to make sure they're
getting them?
So we have lots of tips and tricks for getting
our medications into our dogs because again in general
we as veterinarians do not want you to put your pills into
your pets food so how are we going to get them in.
So couple of tips and tricks.
One of my favorite ones is normally peanut butter,
that's what most households have.
We have a nut allergy in our house so we have sunbutter
'cause this is safe for nut allergies including tree nut
allergies so this is going to be great, you can take it out.
This is a little bit more liquidy than some of the other
nut butters but this really great, you can coat the
medication with it and most dogs will really like this.
So, again you can put a glob on your pet's medication
and have them lick it right off the spoon, don't put the
spoon back in, but what you do
in your own household is fine.
Another good trick is cream cheese, so you can the um,
you can take the cream cheese and put it right around
the pill and that's going to be a great way.
So here we have one of the medications that we need to get
into our pets today and again, you can just take a little
with that roll it around and then again, you're going to
know right away that they're going to get that into them.
So, peanut butter always worked for my previous labrador
Paige, worked great.
Matilda actually did not like peanut butter,
we tried that before we found out my son had nut allergies
so cream cheese was a great thing.
Another thing that works really well is cold cuts.
Matilda was actually pretty difficult with some of the pills
especially that diarrhea medication 'cause it tasted
horrible, so what I learned with Matilda is what I call
the chaser technique.
So I'm going to take that medication,
and I'm going to roll it in it and I'll show you this with
her and then I give this to her, and then I have a second
piece right by her.
So I'm going to give here this little
package of turkey with her medication and I'm going to hold
this right, she's so excited about this one that she will
swallow this and give her that.
All right now remember Matilda was a little bit difficult
because she didn't want any of the nut butters which is what
worked for my previous labradors so you challenged me,
you did, but again I learned the chaser technique worked
for you.
So we have your pill in the turkey, but she would
spit it out if I didn't give you something after.
Gentle, gentle, oh that's not gentle.
Here you go, down the hatch.
Good girl.
So I find that the chaser technique works really
well with cold cuts and you can do that with cheese like
American cheese or something like that as well.
Another thing that my clients tell me works really well
is bread.
So you can take a piece of bread, take a piece
of that, mmm love fresh bread, okay and you can take
the pill put it in the bread and make a little bread ball
so this often works really well for your dog as well
and you can give that to them.
So sort of making your own pill pocket.
Pill pockets are another product that you can get
on the market as well, you can get at your pet store,
probably order them from Amazon and again
you can put the pill in there.
So it's often a good idea to make sure that your dog
will eat what you're offering them before you put your
medication in there but I find that that
is another great way.
Other things that often work is hotdogs, so you can cook
some hotdog, slice it up and put the medication
inside the hotdog and that often is another great way
to get the pills inside your pet.
So the biggest problem with giving your dog and cat pills
is what do you do when they're not eating
because often when they're not eating is when we're going
to be wanting to use things like Cerenia and Entice
and my clients will call me and they'll say I can't get the
Cerenia, I'll say why not and they're like well everything
that you've told me, the cream cheese, the peanut butter,
everything's not working and I don't know how to pill a dog.
So next we're going to show you how to pill your dog
because there are going to be times, you know what I would
prefer if you can cold cuts or a peanut butter or
a nut butter or a cream cheese or bread and make it a
positive fun experience for you and your pet but there are
going to be times that you are going to need to have to pill
your dog because they're not going to take it because
they're not feeling like eating and you need to get that
appetite stimulant, like Entice or the nausea medication
or a vomiting medication like Cerenia in your pet.
So we're going to show you how we can get medications
in using our labrador Matilda as our little guinea pig.
- Hi, so if you're pilling a dog you need to open their
mouth and put the pill in their mouth but you need to get
it behind their tongue.
If you put it on their tongue
they will spit it out right away or they will keep it in
their mouth for a little bit and then spit it out on the
ground behind you later on, so you definitely want to make
sure the pill goes behind the tongue and then watch it
being swallowed.
All right, open the mouth,
get it behind their tongue
and then close their mouth.
There you go, good dog.
- [Host] Good girl
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