Getting the dog to eat worming tablets - help needed...

[ruff'n'smov]

welshjohn said:

Shove it in his gob and rub his throat sound s cruel but it does work

Thank god some wisdom at last... !!!!

[bexVN]

ruff'n'smov said:

welshjohn said:

Shove it in his gob and rub his throat sound s cruel but it does work

Thank god some wisdom at last... !!!!

Exactly what I do with my dog but if you have a dog that clamps it's mourh shut or struggles when you do disguising the tablet successfully is the wise choice.

[ruff'n'smov]

bexVN said:

ruff'n'smov said:

welshjohn said:

Shove it in his gob and rub his throat sound s cruel but it does work

Thank god some wisdom at last... !!!!

Exactly what I do with my dog but if you have a dog that clamps it's mourh shut or struggles when you do disguising the tablet successfully is the wise choice.

Quite disagree....nothing like a WWF wrestle with a Staffie Cross to get the blood flowing hehe

[annmac]

trando said:

We have a 5 year old Jack Russell who will not eat worming tablets. The ones we use are bone shaped and 'flavoured' but even if we grind it up and mix it with chicken and rice he smells it and won't eat his lunch....

Anyone got any better suggestions? As you can see from the pic, he is looking sheepish...

Hi
I know exactly where you are coming from I've tried everything but some one just told me to try marsbars
Ann

[moorx]

Please don't give your dog a Mars bar or even part of one - chocolate is poisonous to dogs.

Pate or cheese would be my suggestion, but the worming tablets we use are meat flavoured, so my dogs just eat them like treats.

[Turn7]

gog440 said:

Cheese triangle with the tablet squished into the middle. By the time they have realised there is a tablet in they have swallowed it

Any bit of cheese works for this.....

[niva441]

Turn7 said:

gog440 said:

Cheese triangle with the tablet squished into the middle. By the time they have realised there is a tablet in they have swallowed it

Any bit of cheese works for this.....

Same here they actually look forward to the cheese triangles, laughing cow preferred.

[silentbrown]

Google "pill gun".

Or just wrap it in a piece of bacon.... (pill, not dog!)

[Pesty]

We use panacur powder

Mixed in with roast dinner left overs or goats milk.


If we fancy a fight hold him hold his mouth open and drop tablets right at back of throat

[craig1912]

We use these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intervet-Schering-Plough-...

[jmsgld]

Garlic and other Allium sp are also poisonous to dogs. Good list here https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/media/605397/pois...


Panacur doesn't cover all the worms you want to cover, I would use Milbemax / Milquantel or Drontal / cit if you are using something else to cover lungworm.

[otolith]

Tried to treat the hound with Bravecto tonight - but the tablet is a massive chewable thing, and he won't have it. I ended up putting it in his bowl with some really nice food. He's eaten round it. I will just leave it there, he might get hungry and eat it. Bloody mutt!

[Smiler.]

Meh, try getting a worm to eat dogging tablets.

[CypSIdders]

Turn7 said:

gog440 said:

Cheese triangle with the tablet squished into the middle. By the time they have realised there is a tablet in they have swallowed it

Any bit of cheese works for this.....

The reason cheese spread, peanut butter or pate are suggested is that all of them are likely to stick to the roof of the dogs mouth, which will then spend the next 5 minutes trying to dislodge said gooey lump and, in the process swallow the pill!

[tedmus]

We have three rounds of meds to give to our old boy three times a day not counting the Seraquin he gets as a side.

When I give him his tabs I usually cut a round of processed ham into quarters, wrap a quarter around the pill then when offering it to him shove it in his gob with a helping finger to pop it down the back of his mouth, seems to do the trick most times.

Had a bit more of a hard time trying to get chemo meds down the girl when she was ill and no interest in food, had to resort to a pill squirter thing and a wrestle, no fun for either of us.

[King Herald]

Pestle and mortar, grind it to powder, mix it with cat food. No problems.

[bexVN]

King Herald said:

Pestle and mortar, grind it to powder, mix it with cat food. No problems.

Works brilliantly until you get given tablets to give then that you aren't allowed to crush

[The Moose]

silentbrown said:

Google "pill gun".

Or just wrap it in a piece of bacon.... (pill, not dog!)

Was going to say that’s a big piece of bacon. So much want!