Re: first aide tips-pills

["Deb & Boyd McFail" <bdmcfail@alaska.net>]

Geeze Gina, Rocky and Rosie must be cousins. When we finally get to lay 
around on the lawn in the shade for an afternoon we're gonna have to trade
stories!!
Debs

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>From: Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>
>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>Subject: first aide tips-pills
>Date: Wed, Jun 28, 2000, 1:00 PM
>

>
> Lori wrote:
>
>>I just learned a great trick for giving dogs pills
>
>
> Ha Ha Ha!  And I say it one more time with FRUSTRATION: HA HA HA!!! <grin>
>
>     Yes Lori with "normal" dogs this woks very well,,, grr,,, heck just
> about any food wrapped around a pill works...  But Rocky has never been a
> normal dog!  As a young pup he got an eye infection, took three people to
> hold him down to get simple non stinging drops in his eyes...  Forget doing
> his toe nails till he was about 3 but he's hardly ever needed them
> done.  Can't mix his foods together either, if they touch he doesn't eat
> them.  So needless to say he is a real challenge when he is sick.
>
> Vet story from last week:  Vet thought we should put him back on
> antibiotics and I asked if I could have injectable.  Vet said no you just
> give him the pills with a real puzzled look on his dumb face (sorry Jim)
> .  Well I said would you like to try?  Vet opened the pill bottle and a
> very sick Rocky got up and ran for the door.  Had to be drug back into the
> treatment room...  Now this was a dog who did not walk into the clinic
> under his own power.  Six pills later and two vet tech they finally got the
> meds down him.  Sent me home with a bottle of pills and a prayer...
>
> Did learn a good trick though that so far is working...  I fill a 5 cc
> syringe with water, PRY Rocky's mouth open while George holds him down,
> cram the pills as far back as I can get them and shoot the water in the
> side of his mouth, he has to swallow.  Quickly remove hand form mouth
> access damage to my knuckles do first aide as needed fall to the floor in a
> heap of tears and pull my self up by my boot straps and go on with the next
> 11 1/2 hours till we have to do it all over again...  Oh and if he's in his
> crate and KNOWS pills are coming FORGET IT!
>
> <LOL>  I hope you all know I am telling quite the tail here but really it
> ain't so easy...
>
> But with a difficult one try the water trick.  Works really good, except it
> doesn't remove the scowl from their face that just breaks your heart...
>
> Gina
>