If I don't have ground meat in the dog's bowl, the vitamin e pill does not get eaten. Grrrr. There's no problem when I hide it in ground beef/turkey but when I just feed a neck or thigh there's nothing to hide it in. Just wondering how you guys 'hide' the dreaded pill.
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Wow. Mine love them too. Like caviar!
I too would go with the peanut butter.
Of course, you could pierce and squeeze over the food, but I doubt that you'll have to.
It's possible that the dog doesn't recognize it as a food product (like an egg, or a cherry tomato -- once the dog gets past the "coating," the suspicion is gone). So you could try just sticking a needle or pin in the gelcap before putting it into the bowl so the dog can smell the oil inside.
Oh Tracy, you're lucky. I always get excited for a clean bowl, but he's remembering my tricks of hiding it in a heart or kidney. If the chunk of cheese is big enough he goes for it. I just don't want to feed him cheese every day. Even with his peanut butter obsession, he laps it around in his mouth for a while, and spits it out....only after it's been licked clean .
I was thinking of trying the pill pockets from greenies, but they're filled with crap. I feel cheese would be better than greenies.
Connie I think that is what is happening. We've been through this before with salmon oil pills (what I use on vacation) where I sit on the floor next to him making 'yummy nummy noises' to get him to eat it. He disliked the skin but LOVED the salmon oil. I have tried it with the vitamin e oil as well but he thinks it's only so so. Not nearly as good as salmon oil.
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... He disliked the skin but LOVED the salmon oil. I have tried it with the vitamin e oil as well but he thinks it's only so so. Not nearly as good as salmon oil.
How about squirting liquid salmon oil on the E-Caps?
... He disliked the skin but LOVED the salmon oil. I have tried it with the vitamin e oil as well but he thinks it's only so so. Not nearly as good as salmon oil.
How about squirting liquid salmon oil on the E-Caps?
That's exactly what I do.... Never had a capsule left in the bowl.
How about squirting liquid salmon oil on the E-Caps?
I could cover it with tripe (highly coveted) but he will do the same thing as with peanut butter: Lick it clean and leave it in the bowl. He does the same thing for egg shells. Loves the egg, licks the shells clean very daintily. It's funny how he can suck back a neck in a few minutes, but very gingerly cleans his pills and eggshells of any remaining food and leaves it for me to clean up
Cathi, he would eat it if I stuck it in ground meat every day, but it's expensive so he only gets it once/twice per week. I need to find a less expensive source of ground meat since I can mix all his supplements/pills into it with no fuss, it just goes down in one fell gulp.
I guess I could start piercing it, it seems like the best solution. I didn't realize 'normal' dogs at their pills like good boys and girls.
Hey Alex! A fellow Coloradoan!! I live in Ft Collins. Know of any good trainers this far north? We have a TON (probably because of CSU and the vet school) but I have more experience than the ones I've seen so far!!
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