So the vet said to give Scooby Benadryl twice a day, and I’ve been trying to actually make sure it gets done. I covered one in some peanut butter and shoved it in him a few hours ago. It’s bedtime now, so I got up to start the going to bed process (you know the one – the one where the woman unloads and reloads the dishwasher, turns the TV off, locks the door, turns on the burglar alarm, and the man gets in bed) when I reach to pet Scooby for being such a good boy when I notice a mostly untouched, peanut butter covered Benadryl stuck to his collar.
It was bad enough knowing Betty is prettier than I am, but now Scooby is smarter? Not fair!
What we do with Ayana for her pills is to open her mouth, drop the pill in the back of her throat, close her mouth, keep your hand over her muzzle while you massage her throat to give time for the pill to go down. Then we reward her with a treat. Usually the nice beef jerky treats. =) The trick is to get it in the back of the throat. The mother of the kids I babysit told me she does it the same way with her youngest daughter!! (minus the beef jerky treat) How long do you have to give him the Benadryl? A week? a month? forever?