Dog continuously needs higher value treats to take pills. Where does it end?
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Anonymous
| My dog is at the point of his life where he only takes his meds if they are wrapped in Costco Rotisserie chicken. |
Anonymous
Sounds like my FIL! |
Anonymous
Um, dogs love peanut butter! Source: my 5 dogs. |
Anonymous
You're an ass. |
Anonymous
| We've had some success with canned spray "cheese." |
Anonymous
PP could've been more gentle in their wording, but the point is solid. When your elderly dog refuses meds and makes basic survival needs a battle, they're telling you, in the only way they can, that they're done. The kindest thing we do for our pets is give them a good death, ideal while they're still themselves. OP's dog may not be there yet, but they all end up there (unless something awful happens to take them away from us early). No point in pretending it doesn't happen. |
Anonymous
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Similar situation with my dog. I use these. They are big so you can pinch off a bit and use it for more than one pill.
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Anonymous
They love tons of things that are not that great. Dogs eat socks. Don't feed your dog socks. |
Anonymous
| I use pill crusher to smash both pill and little bit smashed treat, then mix with dog kibble. |
Anonymous
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It ends with meat and cheese, obviously. Do you really think dogs get sick of meat and stop eating it?
Liverwurst is good. Any cheese is good. Offer it to him, tempt him, pull it away then give it to him and immediately give him another, pill-free piece of the same thing. Dogs swallow whole in the wild and he'll swallow the first one with the pills in a hurry to get the second one. |
Anonymous
My dogs don't eat socks. They do eat peanut butter, yogurt and cheese, even spray cheese in a can. Incidentally, my vet does indeed use the spray can cheese as a bribe. A little peanut butter or cheese or deli meat is perfectly fine and not at all like eating a sock which might require a surgical fix . |
Anonymous
You're an idiot. |
Anonymous
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for some dogs, diversity can work. So if you mix up peanut butter one day with liverwurst the next then whipped cream or cheese in a can or whatever they don't get bored with/suspicious of any one thing.
My dog likes cheese, so I just mold some cheese around a pill. She also loves popcorn so I've considered maybe securing a pill in a kernel but I'm not sure it'll work! |
Anonymous
| My dog likes novelty a lot-is it possible if you rotate the treats that would help? |
Anonymous
What's that old saying, "takes one to know one"? 
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