Tip for owners of middle class dogs wrt tablet taking.

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Dip tablet in houmous. We have been alternating between standard and a smoked variety. Both are recieved into the gaping maw with much enthusiasm.

Joe That's not shame, shame would be a cheese string or Dairylea.

Yorkshire dog here. tablet pushed into chunk of fruit cake

Raisins, sultanas etc are very toxic to dogs. Leads to kidney failure.

No dose response either so while on one occasion he may eat a load and be ok, on another it can be a tiny bit and kidneys will shut down

Wouldn’t risk it. As kidney failure is irreversible and fatal.

That link is classic!

I can easily do dog tablets - he will eat anything

Cat tablets I am an expert in the cat wrapped in towel and holding jaw closed until he is forced to swallow technique

Stuck to a peg or a pair of knickers accidentally hanging out the washing basket would be effective here 🤢

Our last dog had a terminal illness and took lots of pills a day. It became a challenge to find something to hide it in. Ham, peanut butter, marmite. He'd get wise to them all.

One night I put them in a little leftover crust from a Pizza Hut pizza. Worked a treat. From then on we'd nip in to PH and they would save me a few crusts for him (he was exceptionally spoiled)

After he died I moved the TV unit to clean and found probably half a dozen pills. Must have been his preferred spot to hide them. I sobbed like a baby for an hour. Still miss that boy.

With my dogs - if you could put the tablet into a decomposing wild creature, pile of fox poo or their own vomit they'd wolf it down with glee.

My dog is so lower class she doesn’t even need the tablet hiding she will just swollow it down whole
Because she’s hard !!

Same as my boy. No need for disguise. He woofs his daily pill down but then he was found on the streets scavanging for food so everything is a bonus.

My dog loves tablets. So much so that he ate a strip of my blood pressure tablets. That was an interesting morning. Thankfully after tearing 15 miles to the vets and breaking most speed limits, we found most of them spat out in his bed that I'd thrown in the car with him.

Our elderly cat (sadly now passed) was on daily thyroid tablets for the last few years of his life, it was a constant game of trying to stay one step ahead! Cheese? Fine at first but he soon caught on and didn't trust that anymore. Little bit of fish? Hmm it has a crunchy bit, nope, won't eat that. Chicken? Smells slightly wrong, won't touch it. The only thing that was pretty consistent to trick him was a tiny smear of yoghurt, and some days he wouldn't even fall for that! Many, many scratches from having to hold him and force a tablet into his mouth.

I tell them it's a treat. come here, sit, stay, come, sit - oh what a good boy/girl

.....MIL gave my dog an egg custard tart to disguise the pill.....stinky!

Big Dog is very picky but she'll take anything mixed/wrapped in Aldi reduced fat Brussels pate, 49p/tub. It's a good job, because she needs Metacam for her old lady bones and she hates if I just squirt it down her throat..

She thinks it's a treat. What can I say, she was five when I got her and obviously wasn't brought up naice.

I’ve been reading about the rise in cocaine use and assumed this thread was about middle class drugs

I thought I’d just misread the word dogs

I used to lock myself in the room with the cat and wrestle it down her throat in a clash of claws and growling until one day I was setting up the war field ready for the pill battle and she came up and just ate it out of my hands.
That was a pleasant surprise!

I was carefully wrapping my dogs tablet in cheese or something else tasty every morning when one day I fumbled and dropped it on the floor. Quick a lightning she gobbled it up plain. 🤣

I have to use the element of surprise.
Pick cat up, put cat on table.
Fuss cat until cat is confused.
Stick one finger and one thumb into sides of cats face until surprised cat opens mouth.
Lob tablet into cats face and clamp face shut while rubbing cats throat and growling SWALLOW IT......SWALLLOOOOOWWWW IIIIT.
Attempt to let go of cat quickly before cat savages you violently.
Fail.
Dress flesh wounds and arrange a trip to A and E for a short blood transfusion.
Leave house for hospital, witness cat spit fully formed tablet onto carpet as you leave.
Tell cat it can bloody well just bloody get worms/wound infection/cat ebola and flick it the V's as the front doors close.
Cry all the way to the hospital and plan to trade cat in for a guinea pig/gold fish/slow cooker.

Repeat thrice daily for entire course of tablets.

milky our current dog goes nuts for a custard tart. Only Tesco ones though. He knows the packaging. Dh will ask if he wants to share one and he goes to the fridge.
I bought waitrose ones once and he wouldn't touch them. Madness.

If you pretend to feed it to the cat and then drop it mine grab it quickly! Otherwise in a ball of grated cheese works.

Mine was sussnto everything, no matter what treat it was wrapped in she’d eat the treat and then drop the tablet. Even used a bourbon cream (not the healthiest for a dog and she sussed that. She was quite a thick dog in general as well.

We stick it 8n a cheese triangle, bloody dog just inhales it !

When our DDog was still around we used to put the tablet on a plate, and pretend eat from it, with many “yum delicious” type noises and offering it round all assembled humans. Then, very reluctantly, we’d give DDog the “last” piece. It didnt touch the sides.