Cindy is now on 4 tablets a day and her new ones for low potasium are huge.  I was having trouble but still able to get her small water tablets down her but I have just tried the new one and we were not very successful.  I crush her tablets and put them in food like Pate or yoghurt anyone else have any ideas how to get them down her.  Putting them down her throat causes too much stress for bith of us to do it 4 times a day.
Thanks

try a peanut butter sanwich with whole tablets. mine eat it and dont notice

Cheese is always a good way of getting tablets in :-)

mmmor cheese yes, OR cheese and peanut butter then itd defo go down.

Bananas I find very good and aren't they high in potassium (I could be wrong so don't quote me on that!).

http://www.banana.com/nutritional.html

I use swedish meatballs, lightly 'nuked' in the microwave to release the fat and aroma (though they are rather pungent anyway lol).
Chop them into bite sized bits if your breed is small, or halves/whole for larger breeds and push the tablets into the meatball.

Its smelly, appetising and it drives them nuts. They dont even suspect tablets and they are wolfed down before anything is noticed! :-D

I buy them from ASDA, but I'm sure you can pick them up most places now (and of course IKEA ;-) lol)

Thanks LJS, I thought I'd read it somewhere!

Hi, i always give my dogs their tablets in a bit of pate', they wolf them down without even knowing the tablet is inside

If you have a 'suspicious' pill-taker, if you know what I mean :-)...........

  Give an un-tampered-with bit of cheese/meat first..... next the pill-in-the-meat one... followed by an untampered...etc.

Make sure you are holding the next bit of bait close to the face so they gobble up the first to get to the second..

Hi use a low fat philadelphia type cheese.  They love it and don't notice the tablet.

Think the banana would work well too.

Good Luck.

Dawn R

Cheese works every time here too...either cream cheese or Dairylea triangles (you only need to use a little bit at a time, depending on size of tablet).

Cream Cheese or cheese, i have also used Bacon and ham in past, all work well on my small breed! Lois :-)

I use peanut butter.

> Give an un-tampered-with bit of cheese/meat first..... next the pill-in-the-meat one... followed by an untampered...etc.
>

used to do this with a x bitch we used to have, used pink wafer biscuits........she fell for it every time, even when she was 10/11 yr old.
Chris

Thanks all that gives me lots of ideas to play with fingers crossed

That is exactly how i do it toolz, very well explained too

> I crush her tablets and put them in food like Pate or yoghurt anyone else have any ideas how to get them down her. 

Have you checked that it is ok to crush some of her tablets, I know that some tablets for humans have to be taken whole and must not be crushed, I think the same may apply to some animal medication, the cellulose casing on them is designed to allow digestion to take place and therefore slow absorbtion, by crushing you break the casing and therefore speed up absorbtion which may not be the desired effect.

My old dog is on capsules that have to be given whole, the vet said specifically that they must not be pulled apart and the powder spinkled on his food.

I disguise them in a sardine or something equally smelly, cheese as suggested is always a good one and the smellier the better, a bit of Stilton is my old chaps favourite.

I also give bullet sized Chondroitin and Omega to my old girls in a bread and butter with sardine paste sandwich, they think it's treat time I know otherwise :-D

peanut butter works every time.

Her water tablets have to be chopped in half anyway so crumble a lot so they must be ok crushed and the potasium is also available in powder form so I am sure it is ok to crush that too.  She wont eat peanut butter now and if I put a whole tablet in anything she eats round it she is not the best eater anyway but nibbles most of her food.

Whole tablets rolled in pate, cheapo tubes from most supermarkets budget ranges. I've found these so popular that we've had a whole row of Dogues queueing up to get their bit. Then the trick is remembering which one gets the tablets! :-)

> if I put a whole tablet in anything she eats round it she is not the best eater anyway

Yes just like mine Cindyloos Mum - a 'suspicious' pill-taker in the making. The 'one treat after the other' thing may do the trick especially if you fold the pill in squares of ham, then be ready with the next one :-)

Do you have Pill Pockets there?

http://www.greenies.com/en_US/Products/felinepillpockets.aspx

I use these and have no problem with Junior and Tiva taking their Glucosamine pills- Tiva chomps it prob so the liquid squishes out cause then she smacks her lips lol and Junior well he up and gobbles it- funny I put it in anything else they eat that up and spit out the pill- lil bratts

I find the beef to be the best and I can have one pocket do 4 pills cause you can mush it and just spread it around the pill so will actually last longer this way and the chicken does not seem to spread as easily...

Squeezy cheese for me - we've always got a tube of Primula in the fridge as it's easier and cleaner to "apply" then squidging into a triangle. The beasties who aren't having pills will all sit and get to lick a dollop from the end of my finger as well, that way no-one feels "special" or left out.

Ditto peanut butter but the one we use most is cheese, when they eat it so quick they dont chew, wave it under the nose as smelly as possible and remove fingers quickly!!

No dollface but I wish we did what a brillent simple idea!

I had a dog like this!  She was soo good that she used to be able to lick/suck off all the mashed potato off the left over veggies, sort them into neat little piles, one for each type of veg she didn't like :) 

Whjen giving her tablets we would melt cheese in the microwave, then wait for it to start to get to the stringy stage and then wrap it around the tablet before letting it cool completely.  She was never able to get a tablet out of this and with it being greasy, slid nicely down her throat!!

Jill

They have a free sample of something on pill pockets not to sure what it is never checked- would they send there?

I believe Petsmart and Petland sell them here and so does our vet clinic- maybe if you ask your petstore to order some in who knows....

yeah cheese is a good idea but when you give her it dont make it look suspicious because my dog knew i was up to something and wouldnt eat it but when i casualy planted the tablet in the cheese and gave her it i walked away and spied on her she fell for it