need tips on medicating a rabbit

[canela_2004]

I need tips on medicating rabbits.Kahlua was put of 22.7 mg of B aytril two times a day and it is in pill form. Yesterday what I did was crush it up and mix it with some applesauce and give it to her with a syringe but she hated it! I am putting it into the area between her front teeth and her back teeth but i make a huge mess and she complains the entire time. Any tips of getting rabbits to take their meds? I tried mixing it with applesauce for her to lick up off a plate but that did not work at all.

 

[naturestee]

I got Fey to take hers willingly by mixing it with canned pumpkin. I think Haley used carrot juice.

Otherwise, you'll just have to syringe it. Here's a thread with an excellent post by Honey Pot explaining how to syringe meds(scroll down a little).

http://rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=11658&forum_id=16

 

[JimD]

I've requested liquid meds in the past.
I had my best luck mixing it with baby food.
Banana was what worked most of the time.
Syringe a little at a time and then move the tip of the syringe around to get her to swallow.

~Jim

 

[pamnock]

I've had good luck using a "pill popper". Ask your vet fora pill popper and instruction on how to use it.



Pam

 

[edwinf8936]

You have to push the pill back far enough in the mouth where they cannot spit it out. Get it back to the molars.

ed