Hints on Administering Herbs to Animals
Administration of these herbs can be challenging at times. Here are a few tips to make it easier for you.
Medicating Dogs and Cats
Dogs and cats can be given powdered herbs and liquid herb extracts in their Food
If your pet’s appetite is poor you may need to disguise the taste further by using especially strong-smelling foods, like tuna or a sardine.
For some pets, baby food or canned cat food is such a novelty that they will take the herbs mixed into these foods.
Other tasty treats to hide the herbs include cream cheese, peanut or other nut butters, ground meat or liver, and fruit including applesauce.
Flavored gravies for pets can also be used to dilute the herbs and mask the taste.
If your pet’s appetite is unwell , do not mix medicines in regular meals if it stops them eating – administer the herbs separately in a different food treat.
Powdered herbs may be mixed into small “pills” of butter, then frozen to increase firmness. You can blend them with anchovy paste, organic peanut butter, jam, sandwich pastes, or other thick tasty foods.
It may be easier in some cases to administer the herbs by mixing them into a liquid that is to be gently and slowly administered by syringe. Examples include meat or poultry broth, clam juice, flavored syrups, gravy and fruit juice.
You can take advantage of your cat’s fastidiousness by mixing the herb in a hairball gel or Nutrigel, vegemite or anchovy paste, and smearing it on his or her paws—only very sick cats will let that insult go unchallenged!
Liquid herbal extracts are often not accepted in any form by some animals. In this case, you can use a dropper to put the extract into a capsule, close it, and administer it to the animal in that form quickly.
Always dilute liquid extracts (preferably with something sweet-tasting) if giving directly into the mouth.
If herb capsules must be administered, they often “go down” more easily if one end is covered in butter. Be sure to administer water or broth afterward to ensure that the capsule passes quickly to the stomach.
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