Sierra

[gsh]

Sierra the wonderpuppy has gotten another one of her cyst thingies, they end up looking like puffed up bits of skin. This one sorta popped, so Sierra has this wound on her side which needed some care. Given that it was all yicky the vet put Sierra on a week of antibiotics, which we give her hidden in a blob of peanut butter. While Sierra loves peanut butter she is less than thrilled at being forced to swallow the pill, and goes as far as try to spit the pill out again when we aren't looking. This morning I was getting the pill and the peanut butter ready, and asked Pam if she knew where Sierra was. Pam said that she was in the upstairs bedroom. A few seconds later I heard the sound of paw steps going down the stairs and then the sound of someone going through the dog door.

Sierra had heard us plotting and made her escape.

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[dwarfrage.livejournal.com]

Mother's old dog used to be able to eat a mcdonald's hamburger in a blink of an eye and leave the pickle in the food dish.

[gsh]

Oh, both dogs know their names. That's certain. So when we want to talk about them, we call them SP and KP (Sierra Puppy and King Puppy). They know know that SP and KP refer to them also.

*sigh*

[gsh]

Interestingly enough, a nickname of Sierra is "Miss Thing". We don't call King "Mr. Thing" for unknown reasons.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

My mom always put the pills in a slice of hotdog. harder to lick off/seperate. but is chewed...

[gsh]

Yea, for a few years Sierra didn't mind the pills when they were hidden in peanut butter Its only in the last two times that we've had to give her pills that she's objected.

Pilling a dog.

[elkor.livejournal.com]

Smear butter on the pill.

Grab the muzzle, and pull the head up. Pry the jaw open with 2 fingers and slip the pill as far back as you can. Hold the muzzle close for a few seconds until you see them start to try to lick their muzzle. That generally means they've swallowed the pill.

The same technique works on cats.

[harley03.livejournal.com]

hey wonderpuppy, ya gotta take your pill to get better~

like the hotdog idea

[free-of-whip.livejournal.com]

When I was young, we had a dog who developed kidney trouble, so he had to get a pill every day. After some years of this, he died. After his death, my mother went to move a child's playpen that had been stored in the basement, which had a little mat laid on the bottom. When she picked up the mat, there was a neat little line of pills all around the edge of the playpen, just under the mat. Apparently, she hadn't been nearly as effective at getting the pills into the dog as she thought she had.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

that's amazingly clever.

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

The vet used to tell us that there are pill "spitball shooters" you can get, but with Gateway we just grind his meds and mix them into wet food.

Supposedly dogs can learn 180 or so words, so I'm not surprised they can tell when you're plotting. I had a guinea pig who knew the word "bath". We started spelling it out but in time learned that too, so we had to resort to euphemisms like "the icy deep" and "the briny drink". ;)

[mtnwlf.livejournal.com]

When King came to foster with us he was deathly ill, quite literally. He was on 3 different medications, all given multiple times during the day. At first, he was to weak to argue about it. Eventually he figured out how to seperate the pill from the cheese, so we switched to pb. That bought us another week, but since he got lots of practice he quickly learned to seperate cheese. We tried everything, but he could spit them out no matter what. Finally, I was reduced to prying jaws and throwing pills down, and I still had to hold on to him and check his mouth to be sure he swallowed it. In the end, he developed the amazing ability to cough them back up. Sierra USED to be good about taking her meds. *sigh* Dogs.