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I think they start to figure out that the pills are in there and get very suspicious of anything you try to feed them, Sharlene. The last few meals Lena had, she managed to spit them all out, whereas before she never noticed.
My friend uses ice cream to give her dogs pills. She says it's so cold that they just swallow without thinking. Have you tried that?
I just got her to take her amoldipine and benazepril with some hard sliced salami cut into tiny pieces. Then I put a couple bits I her bowl on some dry food and she ate the salami. So today she likes salami amd I'll cut up some chicken for her later too.
I made notes of all suggestions to pick up at store. Doesn't hurt to have a variety in hand as who knows what tomorrow will bring. She is drinking a lot I noticed this evening.
Sharlene -- extra drinking may be a result of eating salami. It is pretty salty.
Sharlene, I've mentioned this on several different threads but have you tried plain (vanilla ) cheese cake? I tried almost everything under the sun with Ginger's long standing inappetence as you probably knew. The one thing consistently worked for us throughout our battle with her inappetence was plain cheese cakes. It doesn't melt so quickly like ice cream and still sweet enough for them as I found out that she still went for sweets when she had absolutely no appetite. I used to stockpile our freezer door with those individually cased mini cheese cakes like 15-20 of them on any given day. Oh boy, don't I miss those days.
You just have to make sure to use a decoy first to let her taste the cake to let her guard down. Coat pills individually rather generously unless they are tiny so she swallows it before she detects the pills. Ginger took all her pills this way till the very end. :(
Hope something works for Molly and you. Hugs, Song.
With the decoy, she won't voluntarily take it since she doesn't want anything. You have to rub it right on her tongue with your fingertip then she won't resist the second one so much once she knows it tastes sweet. At least it worked with Ginger for the longest time.
Dang, Sharlene!! I don't have any brilliant suggestions to offer, but I'm right here reading along with every post. I've got my fingers crossed that Molly will start eating for you again ASAP. Been there, done that with dogs who don't want to eat, and it really is one of the toughest things to soldier through. I really hope you can hit on something she'll really like again!
Keesh the pill detective had me going crazy trying everything to get his meds into him.... finally, I had to bite the bullet and go out and get some hard cheese, of course it had to be the white cheddar cheese block. I then cut 4 square pieces and hid the pill in only one. The trick was to wash my hands immediately after putting the pill in cause he could smell it on the outside of the cheese if I picked it up--- LOL- then I put all 4 pieces down on the floor at once. It confused him- and finally by the time he picked up the piece with the pill... too late.... he ate it. I know Molly is much smaller and I don't know the size of what you are trying to give her, but after just about every trick in the book, this worked.
I also swear by bone marrow broth. When he wouldn't eat, he would drink the broth. Don't know if you've ever made it before, the smell isn't pleasant, but it is sooo good for them. I got the bones from the butcher... not the grocery store. It was worth the little bit of extra money.
ian was very hard to pill too, and he really needed his vetoryl. the only thing that worked- after lots of trial and error -was indeed a tiny can of tuna kitty food. very expensive, but the strong fishy smell did it i guess.
enya can be fooled with peanut butter.
flynn ate everything, even plain pills.......................
Be never seen th cheesecakes here plain, but I will look. She wants something as she is begging currently but turning her nose up to everything I try to give her.
Yea the salami is salty so maybe that was the cause. She also drank alot before the salami. Maybe she hadn't gone to the kitchen today. Though that would be weird.
Also picked up some liver treats. She normally likes that. At least it is protein if nothing else. It's dried liver. Makes her fart something horrible but right now I'd take stinky dog farts over not eating.
And she wanted her dental bone. So is now happy knawing away.
Could she really just be that finicky?
I have baby food. No onion or anything just chicken chicken broth and rice starch in it. Hot dog, dog lasagna, dog bacon and eggs, sardines. A whole cupboard of stuff.
Moving on to tripe if I have to. Gag!!
Try liver pate. The canned stuff. Smells disgusting, but the stinkier the better.
And, Tobey has gotten quite finicky about food in her old age too. She turns down a lot of things she would previously go nuts over. Don't get me wrong, she still likes food for the most part, but she's much more selective about it.