hungphatads123
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Hello!
We have a three-year-old basset with a cancer diagnosis. He’s in the early stages of chemo and recently has become really picky about food and not wanting to take pills in particular. Not sure if it’s because of his prolific sniffer but he seems able to sniff out pills in almost anything we give him. One thing will work for a while, then he’ll turn his nose up at it. Hickory smoke pill pockets worked for a bit, sometimes cheese, sometimes lunch meat rolled up around it, but then usually he will seek out the pill and spit it out.
I considered crushing them up and then adding them to a mushy food, but since he’s become really picky about what food he will eat and I worry that if the flavor didn’t fully mask the flavor of the pill, he would just turn his nose up at it because he knows it’s pill-flavored. He isn’t very big on peanut butter so I haven’t tried much in that direction.
Just wondering if others have any creative solutions. I saw a pill shooter thing at the pet store that is like a way to just shoot them directly into your pet’s throat, and I’d like to avoid that if at all possible. But if people have experience with that, also happy to get your input. Right now we are giving him like 3 pills in the morning, and some of them are 1.5 pill doses so I have to get 5-6 pill portions into him each morning.
We have a three-year-old basset with a cancer diagnosis. He’s in the early stages of chemo and recently has become really picky about food and not wanting to take pills in particular. Not sure if it’s because of his prolific sniffer but he seems able to sniff out pills in almost anything we give him. One thing will work for a while, then he’ll turn his nose up at it. Hickory smoke pill pockets worked for a bit, sometimes cheese, sometimes lunch meat rolled up around it, but then usually he will seek out the pill and spit it out.
I considered crushing them up and then adding them to a mushy food, but since he’s become really picky about what food he will eat and I worry that if the flavor didn’t fully mask the flavor of the pill, he would just turn his nose up at it because he knows it’s pill-flavored. He isn’t very big on peanut butter so I haven’t tried much in that direction.
Just wondering if others have any creative solutions. I saw a pill shooter thing at the pet store that is like a way to just shoot them directly into your pet’s throat, and I’d like to avoid that if at all possible. But if people have experience with that, also happy to get your input. Right now we are giving him like 3 pills in the morning, and some of them are 1.5 pill doses so I have to get 5-6 pill portions into him each morning.