On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:47:32 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 6/29/2017 1:14 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:57:31 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:00:18 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:46:05 -0400, John H
wrote:

I'd had my dog on Benadryl (generic stuff) for a few years prior to that.
The vet said it was a good thing, probably helped. She'll be on that stuff for the rest of her life,

I found the easiest way was to grind up the whole bottle of pills in a
blender and use a measuring spoon to put it in food. A quarter tsp =
~100 mg of Costco benadryl. (based on weighing 4 pills and then
weighing the powder on my reloading powder scale)

I have to give mine 1/8 tsp tylan powder along with the diphenhydramine. I make capsules with the
tylan powder and give her that and the pill with peanut butter down her throat. Rubbing her nose
right after pulling my finger out of her mouth causes her to lick her nose and therefore swallow the
pills. Works every time.

Ed was never good with pills. If you put them in peanut butter or just
about anything else, he would spit out the pill. I was not ready to
wrestle with a 110 pound dog trying to force it down. Mixing the
powder with the food was a whole lot easier. I always gave him a golf
ball sized teaser of some kind of chopped up meat in his dry food and
I mixed the benadryl in that.


Heh. I had the same problem with Sam Adams. I fooled him a few times
by putting his pill in those "pill pockets" they sell but he figured it
out. He'd eat the tasty pill pocket and spit the pill out.
So, I'd give him one without a pill in it which he would quickly gobble
down, followed by another with a pill. Somehow, he'd eat the pill
pocket treat but spit the pill out.

I tried simply emptying the contents of the pill and mixing it in his
food. He'd go over, sniff at his bowl, look at me with an expression
like, "nice try" and walk away. It got to the point where even if
resorted to the age old, put it in his mouth, hold his mouth shut and
wait for the tongue to come out a few times indicating he had swallowed
didn't work. As soon as I let his mouth go, he spit the stupid pill out.

I think it became a game for him.



Mixing it with the meat I put in the food seemed to work. The kibble
was still the same stuff and the meat was a treat. After a while he
got used to the benadryl and gave me a funny look if I didn't put it
in.
The funny thing was he would just eat a prednesone pill. I could just
toss it to him.