We truly love our pets and we want to do everything for them, including giving them the right medication they need. The struggle is real when giving a pill to our pets so it is a good alternative to have pill pockets to introduce medication to your pet. Veterinarians try their best to ensure that pets get the full dose of any medication prescribed. Allow us to share you simple strategies to make medication administration less stressful for your pet and for you. check VetIQ

 

1. When administering eye and eye drops, you can distract your pet with something tasty so he won't notice what you are actually doing. For example, you can smear a bowl or small plate with some canned food or peanut butter, or anything delicious. While your pet os relishing his favorite treat, you can apply a spot-on treatment or put in ear drops, then you can give him a good message to help the medication penetrate inside, and the same is true with applying eye drops.

 

2. You can utilize a clean food tube or a squeeze bottle for delivery of a treat or canned food, slowly squeezing out the food on top on his head, and your pet will hold his muzzle upward, focusing on the food rather than focusing on what you are doing to him. check this useful site

3. When giving a pill, you can hide it inside a pill pocket treat that your pet will be happy to swallow. You can use peanut butter, canned food, or a readily available commercial pill pocket. You can also pulverize or open a capsule and sprinkle it on a pet's food. Veterinarians though are against pulverizing of a pill.

 

4. You can cut a pill and break it into halves or quarters and hide it inside a ball of sticky food or canned food. Pill pocket treats make a convenient method of medication administration to your pet. It is also important to hide the scent of the medication because dogs and cats have very sensitive scent receptors. So use a spoon or tweezer to smash the pill and cover it. Using one hand, hold the food treat and give it to your pet, not using the hand that touched the medicine.

 

5. You can also play the shell game, giving your pet a piece of cheese or other treats that are not laced with medication, and then give another piece that doesn't contain the pill, and then follow-up with another treat not containing medication. Every time you give your pet a pill, use any of the above methods and don't forget following it up with water using a needleless syringe and squirt it inside your pet's mouth, in order to wash the pill down your pet's esophagus.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_veterinary_drugs