Dog's sense of smell
We have always known that dog's have great smell, and about 40 times better than us, but this week was time again to to give our two whippets there worming tablets. We have always had trouble getting molly to take a tablet, so I cut the tablet into the smallest peaces that was possible and mixed it in with her morning meal. She took her time eating and left every peace of tablet in her bowl, there must have been about 20 small peaces so I put them in the middle of a peace of corned beef and Hay Ho all gone.
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CGB, I use a small block of cheese, cut a slit into it, slot in the tab & seal. Once they see the cheese it don't touch the sides. Dogs are clever-but not clever enough to over rule their greed
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Sounds just like ours was.. she would even sniff it out in cheese, meat, bread and jam, cooked dinner of green beans carrots potato and gravy..the whole cooked dinner was desperation on my part
yeah she would lap it up but leave the bits of tabs......so what I used to do was get two spoons and crush the tabs between them till powdery.. pop into egg cup add boiling water let it cool.. scoop up with a syringe.. find dog!!!.. grab dog!!.. open her mouth and squirt down throat...job done. Saffie wised up to this in the end though she wouldn't even open her mouth so I had to prise the syringe between clenched teeth.1 -
This sounds just great, I would love to know what dog's are thinking when we are trying to out smart them with things like this, and they are thinking No way are they going to make me swallow that.
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I wish the cheese method would work with Harry. We've had to give him an antibiotic pill twice a day this week since his foot op. He loves the cheese but carefully eats that then spits out the pill! We've tried everything including sausage but he always spots the pill! (Someone suggested warm sausage so that they smell the gravy/fat content - might give that a go.) At the moment we have to resort to one of us holding his mouth open and the other ramming the pill down his throat!
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I know this doesn't help - but there are some advantages in having a very greedy dog, then! I just put the tablets in a handful of her food and the whole lot disappears in seconds. We did have this problem with one of our cats, though. After being bitten and scratched to bits, two vets gave up trying to get tablets down him and injected the medication instead!
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Yes richros - my lab has so far taken any tablet offered while the other one guesses whatever it is hidden in - she is dead suspicious even titbits from my cooking she queries! I have just gone the forcing route and she is fine with that - she knows what's coming and sits - lets me open the mouth and stuff the pill right down her throat. Then she gets a big fuss! Coming home from France the vets gives the lab her pills and allows me to do the other one!
I think you might find that its more than 40 times more powerful than our sense of smell - one of my nieces has a lab that works at sniffing cancer everyday really awesome work. As seen interviewed by Ann Robinson. A sniffer dog at a US airport smelt a fingernail sized piece of orange peel in our snack bag! Not sure why we shouldn't have been carrying fruit but it set off a search!
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I had this issue as well until one day I dropped the tablet on the floor and he was so desperate to eat what I dropped he gobbled it up. So I just chuck it on the floor now and it seems to work well...
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