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Peanut Butter On Dog Noses

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I’ve been having a little bit of trouble giving Leroy some of the medication that he’s on.

He can be quite stubborn and smart when it comes to taking pills and it’s normally just a matter of time before he catches onto my sneaky pill disguising ways.

Not to mention the fact that he is extremely picky when it comes to eating something new so I have to be very careful in my pill disguise items of choice or I’m left with a soggy pill that is melting in my hands as I try to cram it down his throat before it disintegrates.

So I decided to try the messiest and tastiest thing I could find to disguise a pill.

Peanut butter.

Actually it was DOGSBUTTER. The immunity and digestive one. It has coconut oil and ginger in it but no sugar, salt or hydgrogenated oils.

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I don’t know why I haven’t tried this before.

Wait.

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Yes I do.

Because it’s extremely messy when mixed with slobber.

But it works for now and that’s what matters.

So what are your tricks to getting your dog to take medications? Have you ever used peanut butter?

 

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Jodi

Wednesday 30th of April 2014

I had the same problem with Sampson, something would work for a while then he'd get wise to it and spit it out. One of my readers suggested LIVERWURST. You can easily mold it around the pills (I do three at a time), it's very stinky so it helps mask any 'medicine' odors AND it's apparently very tasty too.

My trick is this, first I mold two balls of three pills each and then I cut off a chunk of Liverwurst, I put the two balls and the chunk in my hand and rapidly offer them to Sampson, gulp, gulp, gulp all pills are gone.

Nichole

Friday 18th of April 2014

OK, I confess... as soon as I saw the first photo I started singing "Lick It... Lick it Real Good" to the tune of Salt 'n Pepa's Push It............ it's been a long week ....... lol

judy @ bailey unleashed

Thursday 17th of April 2014

i've never heard of dogbutter before. thanks for the tip! i usually just stick aoife's pill in cooked chicken, sandwich meat, cheese, whatever i have on hand. she'll eat anything. bailey on the other hand has such a tiny mouth and needs everything chopped to bits. it's much harder to get a pill into her.

Yes I Know My Dogs Look Funny

Thursday 17th of April 2014

We've done peanut butter, cream cheese and vanilla ice cream. Last resort is the old "jam it down the throat and hold mouth closed until it goes down" trick. That sure is a whole lotta slobber.

Jan K

Thursday 17th of April 2014

We've used peanut butter, but mostly we use cheese. The only problem with that is that if it's not soft enough, it's hard to wrap the cheese around the pill. But mostly it works pretty well, and they always like it.

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