Does anyone have any tips to give oral medication to dogs? I have to give mine liquid and tablets. The tablets I can get him to have but the liquid he won't go near. I have tried looking for youtube videos but they just use dogs who would let you do anything. I don't want to be wrestling three times a day for the next week. He won't even let me get near him with the syringe.

I mix liquids in either chocolate spread or peanut butter, they take anything in those I find. Tablets go well in cheese as well.

That would be a good idea except he can't have anything with much fat. I could try a bit of yoghurt I guess. If only you could tell them that it was going to make them feel better.

How about a little bit of bread, it would soak it up?

Chocolate is very poisonous to dogs so i wouldnt try that,
when i had to give my cat liquid medication i squirted it onto cooked chicken, he ate it with no problems.

I think I must be very lucky with my springer. Due to various infections over the years he has had to have liquid and tablet medication quite a lot and he is a star. I bought some cooked meat to hide the tablets in and just fed them to him 1/2 a tablet at a time. The liquid I poured on his food with a little bisto. Only weak bisto though as its quite salty.

Chocolate is poisonous to dogs!!!!!!!! Don't ever use chocolate in any form.

They have to eat quite a bit to be sick, a chocolate bar a day might hurt, a smudge of chocolate spread a day won't.

Try mixing the medicine in tuna that worked with my dog and I also crushed up his tablet in with it.

Oh bisto could be a good idea. He is the fussiest dog alive I'm sure. The other week he had chicken flavoured rehydration solution and he wouldn't drink that. Even I thought it smelt quite nice

I might try the bread idea too, he usually has crusts so I'm sure he would eat those.

I ust tried a little bit of yoghurt and he took that. I don't want him to get the squits from too much yoghurt though so I'm not sure I can do that three times a day.

The problem is something to do with his digestive system too so that's not helping.

Our dog loves cheese. So the liquidy green medicine for his loose bowels, is usually squeezed between two slices of cheddar cheese and he wolves it down. The tablets are put in cheese and he eats them too. What does your dog love to eat?

I put everything for our dog in bread. You could put the liquid on the bread and wrap it round a bit of cheese.

Our old labrador has to have Metacam every day for his joint pain and he has it on bread, he loves it and it's not too fattening for him.

He loves cheese but he can't have it any more! He's not one for food really, he's a strange one.

I shall be trying the bread out next.

Thanks for all the tips

Good luck

I'm a mean Mummy lol and just get a syringe and squirt it in her mouth, swiftly followed by something yummy.

Take it from someone who's dog developed liver failure in later years. I got my first dogs as a teenager unaware of poisonous foods. I did let them have chocolate and allsorts. At 10 my dog developed severe liver failure like he had been poisoned. We never did know what caused it but things build up in the system. I would not risk giving any chocolate. And a bit a day could seriously hurt a dog.

They have to eat a lot of chocolate to make them ill, all ours have had a little and come to no harm, I am not suggesting a lot of 60 cocoa chocolate just a little chocolate spread which has very of anything that will do them harm in it.

Anything strong flavoured works a treat. Cheese has been mentioned. Or sardines (if oil based rinse first). Or Chappie - Chappie masks everything!
Or you could try porridge

Tablets work well put in a small dob of butter, cottage cheese, peanut butter or hidden in a small pice of chicken, bread,ham, fish etc. hot dogs also,work really well, especially heated up, as the smell hides the tablet more.

For liquids, either squirt the syringe directly into the mouth, from the side, so it goes straight down the throat before it can get a chance to be spat out, or mix it into a plain yogurt, potted meat, tin of tuna.

I would never ever use chocolate spread. The amounts of chocolate needed to cause harm varies a lot, both in the side of the dog and the chocolate itself, but putting tablets in chocolate spread on a regular occurrence ( worming tablets for instance), is not going to be doing any good,and could cause a lot of harm over time.

Put it on mushed hot dogs! The cheaper the better, only had one dog at kennels refuse it!

I am not telling anyone they have to do it but it has worked for over 20 years for us with various sized dogs. They also have a smear of it in their kongs occasionally.

better to be safe than sorry, and if the dog will eat cheese, bread, hotdog etc over chocolate paste, that's better. But if the dog won't and chocolate paste is the only thing it will eat, I'd take the chances of a smidge of chocolate paste over my dog not receiving it's meds at all.

Seriously, a tiny bit of chocolate paste a day is a bit different to hand feeding it half your galaxy bar a day.

Exactly and with one who is gluten intolerant and allergic to pork many "treats" mentioned are out of the question. Chicken liver pate is her usual treat for meds but choc spread is used for liquids as it keeps it's texture better and I don't always have chicken livers to make pate everyday.

I agonised after my dog wolfed down just a small square of chocolate that had been dropped.
That said a previous dog once unwrapped and snaffled a whole easter egg with no ill effects
It was probably a cheapy with minimal theobromine.