[djcalzar]

These seem like a great way of getting pets to take their pills, shame you can't get these in the UK

[Drover]

For me it never failed to wrap it in a piece of lunch meat. It helped to have dogs that verily inhaled their food.

[cleosmom]

My little Shih Tzu mixed always inhaled when wrapped in liverwurst

[BrianH]

My dog just takes the pill with no meat or anything. My previous Great Pyrenese needeed it stuck inside a hotdog.

[linders_m]

Originally Posted by djcalzar

These seem like a great way of getting pets to take their pills, shame you can't get these in the UK

Somebody posted about these for cats a month ago or so and I think you could order them online.

[nlschr0]

Our dog, a great dane, would delicately eat the meat around the pill no matter how tightly we wrapped it, leaving a soggy mess of a pill on the floor.

We started putting a scoop of peanut butter on a spoon and squishing the pill on top of it. It works like a charm - she licks the peanut butter right off, pill and all, without pausing.

Our cats, however, are a different story. I think we all still have battle scars from the last round of pills we gave them!

[Drover]

Hahaha yeh, I guess I didn't think about what it takes to give a pill to a cat. You can't just shove a pill into a hot dog because they eat way to daintily, one little nibble at a time, and eventually they'll find the pill.

[citybythebay]

My aunt tried the pill pockets on her cat......I guess it did not go over very well.
She had to go back to the vet and have the vet help give the pills to her poor cat.

I wish I could describe the 'tool' my vet gave me to administer pills for my cat several years ago.
It was very easy to use. It was plastic and had like claws on the end of it...it was just small enough to fit pills into and it had a plunger??? like device...it made it very quick to depress the pill into her mouth.

I'll see if I can find the name of what it was...

[Marylandkitten]

I've never hestitated when I had to force-feed a cat a pill. the faster it's done, the less of a fight the cat will put up. as long as you have him/her firmly in your lap.... with one hand you have a finger on each side of the jaw pressing inwards to open the mouth up.. with the other hand you have the pill that you "pop" as far into the back of the throat as possible. let go with your other hand and 2 fingers that were holding the jaw open...and immediately begin to stroke the underside of your kitty's chin. this increases their saliva production, therefor inhibiting them to swallow over and over, and helps the pill go down.

Very rarely the cat will look at you and spit the pill back out. - in all cases it has been because I have found I didn't "pop" it far enough back. Like I said - the faster the better. I was stunned when I watched our vet do it the first time, took all of 5 seconds. Here lately, if you have a pill you need to give to a kitty, I'll almost jump and volunteer to do it it's a piece o' cake now.

giving them a BATH... is another thing.

[midnightbirdgirl]

I have been using the pill pockets, and in all my years of giving animals meds, I have never had anything that worked so well. Never again, will I use, anything else.
MBG