Administer dogs to tablets

It's not so easy to give your heckling buddy a pill. I have some tricks in store that have worked for every dog.

Almost everyone knows the trick with the hidden pill in liverwurst. And almost every dog ​​falls for it. If it does not work: Make several liverwurst balls WITHOUT the dog being "onlooker". Hide the tablet in a liver sausage ball. Mostly, the tablet slips down without the dog noticing it, because the four-legged friend only swallows from the greed after the third ball at the latest, without chewing.

If the liverwurst variant does not work, the tablet is in cheese. Dogs love cheese! It also sparkles quite well with butter. Or wrap the tablet in a slice of ham, as it often works. With Mettwurst I have also had very good experiences, because it is very spicy and drowns out the smell of drugs.


Often it is enough to hide the tablet in the sausage, in the cheese or in the butter and mix it into the wet food. Also, hide several of these treats outlined above in the feed.

If it does not work out, it certainly works through food adultery. Since I am the proud owner of three dogs, it always stings, if necessary, the dogs would also eat three-day-old potatoes, just so that the other two could get away with it as little as possible! If you own only one dog, visit another dog owner and feed (of course with the agreement of the other dog owner) BOTH dogs alternately with the above mentioned treats. In one of them, the tablet should be hidden. Of course, you should make sure that the right dog gets the tablet!

I would advise against hiding the tablet in the wet food. Most dogs are smart enough to eat neatly around the tablet. It is also not recommended to crush the tablets and then mix them with the wet food because the food often becomes very bitter and the dog refuses the food. Often the tablets may not be crushed for various reasons.

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