Your beginning to sound like a substitute teacher in a dog school,
veerrry tricky;O)
Thanks again.

Necessity is a mother of invention. She was a fluffy-headed* nutcase,
but she was MY fluffy headed nutcase. Toward the end, we had to play
all sorts of appetite games just to get her to eat anything, nevermind
mere pills. At one point to break a dedicated hunger strike she threw
to protest being boarded, my boarding kennel owner resorted to
enticing her with fresh grilled prime rib. Silly old girl...(pat pat
pat)

*inside and out, but it was part of her charm.

--Glenn Lyford

"Billy" wrote
FurPaw wrote:

When our dogs get pill-wise, even with favored foods, we use the
1-2-3 technique - wrap the pill in a food, pop it in the dog's
mouth, then quickly offer a morsel of an even higher-valued food
(without pill), and then another. The dog usually forgets about
the pill with these temptations.

Escalating inducements? You sound like a dog with computer skills;o)

Lol, Furpaw does doesnt 'she' (assuming a she there, might be wrong!). The
method though is a good one. Had a cat (roomates actually but she left it
behind so became mine) named 'Acid Kitty'. That was one strange cat!
(hence the name). LUV'D Cottage Cheese. Cat would have eaten rusty nails
if you waved a spoon of cottage cheese in the background as a treat for
eating whatever you handed her.

Landlord fell in love with her and took her when I went in the military. 5
years with me, and 17 with her. Walked into her place first day and sat on
her dog, which rather ended all them 'alpha battles' before they even
started. The dog was some mix with part bassett and something with silky
long hair and she'd just ride around on his back as he wandered about the
house.

cshenk wrote:
"Billy" wrote
FurPaw wrote:

When our dogs get pill-wise, even with favored foods, we use the
1-2-3 technique - wrap the pill in a food, pop it in the dog's
mouth, then quickly offer a morsel of an even higher-valued food
(without pill), and then another. The dog usually forgets about
the pill with these temptations.

Escalating inducements? You sound like a dog with computer skills;o)

Lol, Furpaw does doesnt 'she' (assuming a she there, might be wrong!).

G "She" is correct. When solving a behavior problem, I try to
look at the world from a dog's point of view, but don't always
succeed.

FurPaw
--
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own facts.
- Sen. Al Franken (D) to Sen. John Thune (R)

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"Glenn Lyford" wrote in message
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Any ideas on how to make pills more palatable?
She is turning down ground pork.

My vet offers a compounding service, where they can blend the active
ingredient with flavors like fish or bacon, but I don't know the
rates.

Are you using a plain aspirin or a coated one? She might not like the
plain because it's bitter, but might not notice if it's one with the
hard slippery coating--some of the coatings are even a little sweet,
which helps. I use glucosamine from the petstore that comes already
liver flavored, as does the prescription NSAID our older dog uses
(Deramaxx). Those I simply hand to him like a treat, and he grabs
them up, but the dog that needed them before that we still had to play
head games with.

Things that worked, for at least a little while (she'd catch on or
simply change her mind sometimes):
Cheese. (Cream cheese, leftover brie, monterey jack, processed
slices). Works best if it's one of the softer ones you can fold over
and mush together and completely hide the pill. If needed, this
almost always my first choice.
Bread. Small piece, again folded over and mushed over the pill.
Butter. For a while, a small dab of butter on the liver flavored pill
was enough to enhance the flavor to where she found it interesting
again.
A dab of canned dog food.
Coldcuts.
Combinations of the above.

And when all else fails, there's the no-nonsense method my boarding
kennel owner uses. Tilt the head back, open the mouth, drop the pill
down the throat, hold the mouth closed until they swallow. I've
managed the maneuver a time or two, but the kennel owner has done it
so much with such a quick practiced motion, that it's over before the
dog even realizes it's happening to raise a fuss. Your vet likely
knows this one and can show you.

Hope that helps,
--Glenn Lyford

I use peanut butter. I take a blob of it and cover the pill or capsule, and
the dog eats it happily. He's a real sucker for peanut butter, though.

Cheese.
Bread.
Butter.
A dab of canned dog food.
Coldcuts.

I use peanut butter. *I take a blob of it and cover the pill or capsule, and
the dog eats it happily. *He's a real sucker for peanut butter, though.

I knew I was forgetting something...
--Glenn Lyford