Many ways to give pills to pets
23.09.11
There are many ways to get the job done. You can cling a small dog or cat like a football or a baseball; wrap the cat like a burrito; try decoys and disguises; or arm yourself with wrest cheese.
Whatever you do, "Be cool, calm, collected and quick," said Janet Winikoff, concert-master of education for the Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County in Vero Run aground, Florida. She has given pills, injections, liquids and subcutaneous fluids to screen animals and her own pets over the years.
Administer medications with self-assurance and the least amount of restraint, she said. "For many pets, the more restraint you use, the more they struggle and become stressed."
Pet medicines may be in the shape of pills, liquid, shots, gels or creams; they can be flavored or reeky; chewable, tablet or capsule; meant to be taken with food or without; big and reproachful — or not.
Kim Saunders, vice president of shelter outreach for Petfinder.com, an online pet adoption database, has been giving her 22-year-old cat thyroid pills for years. She scarcely found out there is a transdermal form of the medicine and her cat is much happier, she said. The nostrum isn't a patch, but a cream she puts inside her cat's ear.
Source: USA Today