The Peanut Butter Sneak
Desy has to take pills every morning, for her thyroid. It's easy to give her pills because she loves banana. I just slip her pills into the banana and she takes her bite of banana and gulps it down, pills and all. But Rusty doesn't like banana, and now he needs a pill morning and evening until he gets over his little bout with ailing. Rusty loves peanut butter so I've been taking a spoonful of it and wrapping it around the pill. The pill is pretty big and it's got a shiny, smooth casing. So far, he's taken his bite of peanut butter without spitting out the pill, but each time I offer it to him, he's a little slower to take it. He seems to be very suspicious as to why he's getting peanut butter a couple times a day when he usually doesn't get much peanut butter at all. Today I took a bit of hamburger and wrapped it around the pill. He still looked at me suspiciously and instead of grabbing his treat and swallowing it as usual, he took it very tentatively. Either is really suspicious of what I'm doing, or he's lost his appetite for sure. I think he's suspicious. He did eat breakfast. And he ate the hamburger treat, without spitting out the pill. But he didn't gulp it gladly as he usually would. It makes me wonder.
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nj
at 1/31/2006 3:15:28 PM- Sally, using the lunchmeat sneak must be a good ploy, too. Too bad the little one has to have that kind of meds but it's good that they can help her.
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Kim
at 1/31/2006 4:37:30 PM- These dogs have way more brains than are good for us, sometimes. When it comes to medicines, anyway.
I think it would be easy with our big dog, Buffy. She just swallows things whole, "Gulp!"
Ginsu would be another story altogether!
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Lorraine
at 1/31/2006 10:41:47 PM- My dogs are weird. They think that anything that falls on the kitchen floor is food and that pills are dog treats. I've never owned dogs like that before. Yesterday Abraham grabbed a banana peel out of my hand, and a few weeks ago Amos ate my blood pressure pill that I accidently dropped on the floor. I do feed them twice a day, I promise!
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nj
at 2/1/2006 6:32:02 AM- That's surprising that Abraham would go for a banana peel, except that he probably gave it up pretty quick. Often when you have two dogs, they will try to eat the treat before the other dog gets it. They might eat things they don't really like, just so the other one wouldn't get it. That's such a human trait and it's funny to see it in our pets. Oh! there's that "dog in the manger" story.
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lorraine
at 2/1/2006 8:49:25 AM- Yes, I believe it's a case where one thinks he's getting something over the dog that doesn't have it. I noticed that they learn from each other also. Abraham loves ice cubes, but Amos only eats because he saw Abraham eating them.
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I continue to be amazed (now that I have Katie) how smart these animals are. And, you were so right when you told me that she would eat when hungry!
My brother's little beagle (Beatrice Potter) has epilepsy. They have to give her medication every evening. So far, with a slice of lunch meat wrapped around the pill, it's working.