How to Give Your Pet Supplement Pills

Many veterinarians nowadays suggest giving
canines with arthritis regular doses of a
variety of supplement products. This is one of
those cases where talk is particularly cheap.
What I mean by this is that giving a dog pills
or tablets is not the easiest or most fun thing
to do as a pet owner. We will offer some tips
here to make the process of supplementation
simpler and easier with canines.

Your vet will tell you some simple ways to give
a dog a tablet or pill. But the method they
describe is not always so simple and
straightforward as pet owners find out. They
suggest taking the pill into fingers and using
the other hand to squeeze the dogs lower jaw and
force the mouth open. Then take the pill and push
it on top of their time and as far back into
their throat as possible. I know this sounds a
little bit gross and it is somewhat. But if you
push the pill back far enough into their throat
it will initiate a swallowing reflex, and the
canine will automatically swallow the pill. They
won't like it, but it doesn't do them any harm or
hurt them in any way.

Another way that we have successfully given
pills to our pets is by placing the tablet or
pill into another food substance and feeding it
to the animal in that fashion. For example, one
trick we used easily give dogs a pill or
supplement product is by placing the dose inside
a small piece of bread which is then covered with
either peanut butter or simply plain better. This
works very well as the dog quickly choose and
swallows the treat along with the enclosed pill.
In fact, we have found this to work so well, and
the dogs enjoy it so much, that we have to be
very careful when giving the piece of food which
is covered in peanut butter to the dog. If we are
not careful, the dog tends to take a bite out of
our finger also.

If the supplement product is one such as
glucosamine that has a liquid version instead of
tablets and pills, then the process of
supplementation for the canine is far simpler.
One simply has to squeeze the bottle and fill
the reservoir at the top and then pour the
contents over the pet's food at meal time. Dogs
are not finicky usually and will gobble their
food up along with the liquid glucosamine
supplement that was placed on top. If you find
your pet refusing to eat the food once the
supplement was added to it, at that point you
can also add a bit of peanut butter or regular
butter on top of the supplement pill in the
food. This almost always those the trick for
getting the dog to take the supplement product
easily.

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