Friday, August 17, 2007

It's easy giving tablets to dogs II

Skipped straight to step 4 last night, and gave Mollie a couple of treats after the tablet, and lots and lots of praise. Her jaws are really strong from playing tug lots, so as you slightly release the lower jaw to drop the tablet in she tries to close her mouth and it does take a bit of effort to not let her!

Mollie got so excited by all the praise that she had to go and fetch a rawhide chew (or rather one end of one she'd had stashed somewhere for a few days) and tease me with it. She spent nearly the whole evening chewing it, even carrying a bit up to the office, and by bedtime nothing was left but a sticky smudge on her blanket on the settee...

I moved her office bed back onto the floor last night, after she tried to jump up on it while I was elsewhere. The chair is a normal office chair, i.e. with wheels, and the desk is very slippy, so she basically failed in her attempt but did not the keyboard and mouse off the desk! Doubly unfortunate because Tracy's treatment room is directly below the office and she was treating someone at the time...oops...

2 comments:

Ferndoggle said...

I usually just open mouth & shove into the back of the thoat while holding the mouth closed. Blowing into their nose forces them to swallow.

Penny's jaws are really strong too & she fight so hard to keep that mouth shut. But in the end, I always win!

Ferndoggle

Em said...

Yay, I did the blowing into the nose thing, it worked but she gave me such a dirty look as she swallowed, she really wasn't impressed with me !! Good jib she's so quick to forgive :-O