Best way to work a Dog?

kentishlass_2

Like everyone else has said - hide it! I've never got on with cheese (has to be really small bits as we have a yorkie, and it didn't "cling") However, we now use Pate - he loves it!

Hawthorn

UKTigerlily wrote: »

she's a typical Staff, swallows anything! Tried to walk her by some chips on the pavement today & it was like a tank trying to get to them!

Tigerlilly, I have an English Bull terrier, and she's getting great at walking past distractions - she'll maybe have a sniff then move on, but the other night, it was icy, and we were walking past a chip shop. A woman came out with a bag from there. I think she must have had fried fish in it (Rolo ADORES fried fish - drool city) well, she almost had me on my backside trying to get to this woman :rotfl: She sulked all the way home!

These dogs are so greedy! I don't need a hoover since I got her!

IsoChick

We use a splodge of peanut butter on a spoon... smoosh the tablet into it, and stick it in the dogs mouth... they lick it off, eat the tablet and are none the wiser....

UKTigerlily

Maybe I should just 'accidentally' drop it as if it's mine, it'd be gone like a flash! lmao Hawthorn i'm lucky mine only weighs about 2st but omg she wanted those damn chips!

moomin5

We use drontal as it was what the vet advised, we get ours online as it works out cheaper than the vets/PAH (about £1.70 per tablet) and we need 6 tablets each worming session to treat both dogs.

We were advised to hide them in a little ball of corned beef as its quite moldable when at room temp. I'm sure they think worming time is great as they wolf them down and its the only time we give them the corned beef balls

The pet place kennelgate we go to has scales so you can weigh your dog, although i would of thought vets would let you use theirs.

scheming_gypsy

chicken tikka kebab is my favourite way!

i get a kebab out of it and he gets his pill stuck in a piece of chicken, result all round,

mcchell

I'm lucky with mine I just open her mouth and shove it down, I get my fingers in at the back of her mouth, using her cheek to protect my fingers and she opens it up and it's easy to then push it down, for me anyway my OH doesn't have the knack of it yet!

foreign_correspondent

mcchell wrote: »

I'm lucky with mine I just open her mouth and shove it down, I get my fingers in at the back of her mouth, using her cheek to protect my fingers and she opens it up and it's easy to then push it down, for me anyway my OH doesn't have the knack of it yet!

I reckon its a whole lot easier to hide in an a bit of tasty food and chuck it at the dog, to be wolfed down whole! - gone in a millisecond! (its probably a much better experience for the dog too, cos as far as its concerned its just getting a treat!!)

UKTigerlily

I think i'll stick it in a dairylea triangle & throw it to her to catch, she'll hopefully swallow it whole! Wish the Cat was as easy!

Milford_Cubicle

I've just wormed my Lab this morning, I used the Panacur liquid which I mixed with her kibble and added some natural yoghurt. Jobs a good 'un

However, I attempted to worm my cat last week. I started with the granules mixed in with some lovely fish for breakfast. Cat looked at food, refused to eat it. Food was left there with "You're not getting anything else". Food was ignored for the entire day. Food was taken up in the evening and normal food put down. Normal food eaten as if cat had never ever been fed.
So, a few days later we tried the Panacur liquid. Cat was wrapped in towel, held tightly by partner. Cats jaws were prised open by me and an attempt to squirt in liquid with syringe was made. Cat spits liquid out. More liquid given (entire dose was 2ml, each attempt put 0.1 of a ml into cat's mouth...). Cat spits liquid out, wriggles free from towel, gouges OH's elbow and runs away. Cat then proceeds to make 'ick ick ick' noise whilst showering floor and furniture with mixture of spit and Panacur liquid. We give up.
Drontal tablets are purchased. I take half a tablet and approach cat. Cat looks at me in loving manner and allows me to pick her up. I hold cat whilst prising open jaws and pop tablet in. Mouth is quickly and firmly closed and held onto. Throat is gently rubbed, cat stands quite happily whilst this is done and even begins to purr(!)....
10 minutes pass. Cat has swallowed several times, grip on cat is released. Cat spits tablet out onto floor. Cat and tablet are both retrieved, jaws opened and wet, squishy tablet popped back into mouth. Mouth clamped shut again, throat rubbed. Cat now has saucer eyes and looks as if she's going to rip my face off. Tablet appears at side of mouth. Tablet put back into mouth. Tablet appears at side of mouth. Cat produces frothy comination of spit, drool and worming tablet which dribbles down chin. Partner called to assist, requested to gently squirt some water from syringe into mouth. Cat swallows water, spits out tablet. Cat escapes grip, then proceeds to shake frothy, spit based drool onto floor and furniture. Worming attempt abandoned. Cat remains smug.