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My friend takes in shelter dogs and they almost always have a medical condition.

The latest sweet dog has allergies: She can't feed him beef, pork, soy, eggs, dairy, rice, wheat, or catfish.

He won't eat the allergy pill by itself, so she would like to use ground turkey and push the pill into a meatball. It's a capsule and she thinks it's time-released.

She tried straight turkey meatballs, but they were too crumbly. She tried using oatmeal with the turkey, but it got gritty after freezing.

I suggested gluten-free crumbs/crackers, but she said without eggs, it might not hold it's shape. Then we discussed quinoa flakes or tuna. I also thought samplying baby-food might provide a flavor the dog likes and use that to bind the meat. Small amount, good range of flavors, no junk in it.

Any suggestions will be gratefully passed along. Thanks.

 
Pill Pockets. They work perfectly. Little pillow of pliable edible attraction that has a dent in

it, into which you stuff a pill. You then wrap the edibleness around the pill.

 
I think the easiest thing, even with the more difficult dogs I've had

is just to open their mouth, put way back on the back of their tongue & then hold the mouth closed for a few seconds. I have never had one get "horsey" with me over doing this.

 
Ingredients in pill pockets

GREENIES® PILL POCKETS® Canine Treats with real Beef:
Chicken, glycerin, wheat flour, vegetable oil, beef, natural flavors, wheat gluten, dried corn syrup, corn flour, caramel color, lecithin, brewers dried yeast, salt, preserved with potassium sorbate, methylcellulose, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), preserved with mixed tocopherols, vitamin E supplement.
GREENIES® PILL POCKETS® Canine Treats with real Chicken:
Chicken, glycerin, wheat flour, vegetable oil, dried corn syrup, wheat gluten, corn flour, natural flavors, lecithin, brewers dried yeast, preserved with potassium sorbate, salt, methylcellulose, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), preserved with mixed tocopherols, vitamin E supplement.

 
I found it easy to flip my girl over on her back so that gravity dropped the pill

back there. The pill went just to the back of her tongue so she could not bring it forward.
Now I can see this being a problem with a Great Dane.

 
Yes, even the ones that would bark at me if I so much as got the toenail clippers out

would let me cram my hand halfway down his throat with no protest at all.

Just a little dab of peanut butter works great too.

 
Can I ask an ignorant question? How do you know if a dog is allergic to all of that?

Is it BMs? Do they get tested w/ shots? Im just curious. My parents previous dog, I was convinced was allergic to something. She lost quite a bit of hair at year 2. Dr, said it was normal, and that my parents should love her anyway. I curious what the symptoms are when a dog is identified as allergic and wonder how you figure it out.

 
She had him tested...same way as people, with skin test shots. He was breaking out in

rashes and had flakey skin.

 
Mine was allergic to a weird grass and mould. And I kept taking her to the humid Caribbean just to

torture her. The allergy vet had a serum prepared for her but it became too traumatic for me to have to inject her regularly so it was on to prednisone for the rest of her life.

 
Geesh, what does the poor thing eat?! I have found that butter (or in your case, margarine), makes

pill time easy, especially if they are capsules. I put a little butter on my fingertip, then dip the end of the capsule in it.

He (kitty) starts to lick the butter and then when his mouth is slightly open, I open it further and pt the pill in towards the back of the throat. Works very good. He's got a heart condition, so I do this with 2 and 3 pills twice a day.

Only advice the vet gave me was "Don't choke him". That was very helpful :eek:(

 
Yes, they are crap, mixed with crap, and baked in more crap!

Greenies brand stuff are horrible treats to give your dogs, lots of intestinal blockages, choking, allergies, dodgy bowels and tummies...

ICK - would you put any of those ingredients in your mouth? Feed it to your kids?

Thanks for posting this, Melissa!

 
Have her try RAW turkey balls

they won't crumble and I bet the dogs will gobble them up -

other things to try include things like peanut butter, almond butter, tuna, anchovy paste, honey, just use these foods as a vehicle for the pill

smelly, pasty stuff is always good.

I am always so careful what I feed Gomez, there is so much crap dog food out there, with crap ingredients, like a while ago, there was brand that was recalled due to having Chinese melamine in it... melamine...

Hope this helps your friend!

 
These ingredients don't look so bad to me. I think we eat lots worse. What is the worst

in this list?

My girlie lived for 20 years with absolutely no problems. And even with all the preds, she was not expected to live to 9.

 
Melissa do you work in a vet? Sorry for turning this into a pet column, but I do

have a problem with my recent guy and I have to get it fixed right away.

 
methylcellulose is marketed as Metamucil for humans

I wouldn't feed that to my dog...

eta: I'm very happy your girl lived a long happy life, I have seen several very sick dogs with obstructions due to these products, and I wouldn't use them -

and I'm not a vet either, but I am very, very careful of what goes into Gomez's little gullet, he has no choice but to eat what i put in front of him... I can choose the high-fructose corn syrup, if I like, but I know better when I do smileys/wink.gif

 
Sandra, your idea is a good one and makes me laugh. I was dog sitting our next door friends lil

4 1/2 lb pomeranian (?) the kind with the butterfly ears? Anyway, she was great, fun and silly. She was also on a raw meat diet; supplemented w/ a lil kibbles during the day. It was funny, because she would seriously BEG when I would prepare dinner. She smelled the raw meat. It really made me laugh. Not that our dog is big, she's 15 lbs, but really does not beg. But this lil one, smelled raw meat getting ready to be cooked and she was at your feet!

 
Turkey sandwich meat! Roll the pill into one slice of sandwich meat and presto- the pill will be gon

 
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