Lily hates her new medication

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- 12/03/2018 at 9:37 PM
  Cocoa
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  Lily is on medication twice a day for the rest of her life due to her megacolon. She hates it. She loves her other medication. For the other one I just walk up to the fence and give it to her. For the new one I have a very hard time no matter what I do. It doesnt matter if I hold her or set her on the roof of her hutch, she refuses to take it. What is an easier way to do it?
- 12/04/2018 at 6:00 AM
  sarahthegemini
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  Goodness me how stressful. I didn’t know Lily had megacolon.
  
  Are you able to bunny burrito her? Or is it possible to put the medication on something tasty?
- 12/04/2018 at 6:09 AM
  sarahthegemini
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  If I remember, you’re quite crafty? How are you with baking? I’m wondering if you could bake a treat incorporating the medication? Obviously ask a vet if that is okay as I don’t know whether it will effect the medicine but if you get the go -ahead, you could make a treat with pellet mash/hay, medicine and then something fruity?
- 12/04/2018 at 6:57 AM
  Asriel and Bombur
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  I always squirt Bombur’s meds on his greens, and if the meds are in the morning I cut up a baby carrot and squirt it on that.
- 12/04/2018 at 7:36 AM
  Wick & Fable
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  I use this method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12eJ5vdo4w
  
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- 12/04/2018 at 12:04 PM
  Cocoa
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  Wick, I have tried that but im worried it will injure her neck. She won’t always eat her vegetables, she’s getting better but still she wont always eat it. I have tried bunny burrito but every time I press the thing on the syringe she yanks her head away so it misses her mouth. Yes, I love crafts and baking. I believe the vet said she wanted to see them again soon so I will ask her about baking something. I wonder if I could mix mashed banana with her medication?
- 12/04/2018 at 1:23 PM
  sarahthegemini
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  You could always just phone the vet to ask. That way you don’t have to wait til you see them to query
  
  Mashed banana yes! I think a lot of people here often recommend mixing medicines with mashed banana so that might work and you wouldn’t need to bake (altho you could if u wanted, make a ‘cookie’ with the medicine, banana and pellets or something) I’m just concerned about whether that would be too much fruit in the long run? But I suppose you could cut down on the amount of banana gradually so she’s only getting a teensy amount.
- 12/04/2018 at 8:27 PM
  Cocoa
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  She only gets 0.14 twice a day so it wouldn’t take much bananas
- 12/06/2018 at 12:29 PM
  Wick & Fable
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  Perhaps try the banana then! I also found a video from Cooper the Pooper that shows a different front-restrain technique. Rather than fingers around the neck, it’s more so holding your hand in front of the neck as a support and block: http://www.facebook.com/CooperthePoopr/videos/243754219628024/
  
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- 12/07/2018 at 4:34 PM
  Cocoa
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  I have tried that method but she kept biting my hand.
- 12/07/2018 at 4:47 PM
  Wick & Fable
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  What an ordeal. It’s good that you’re trying your best to give her the medication. How has it been? Did you find a good method for you and her?
  
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- 12/08/2018 at 2:48 PM
  Cocoa
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  I have been getting her to take it using a different method. I keep trying to get her to take it and she eventually gets annoyed and bites it, then I press the syringe. I saw this method a while back on this site
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