Comments on: Greenies Pill Pockets

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:59:39 +0000

These are a life saver if you have to give medications daily! One of my pups has thyroid and skin problems so has his own pill pox set up for his AM & PM meds. I honestly tried everything else and these are worth every penny and make it so easy. I have to give my other dog a piece of pill pocket because she loves them too!

By: Discount Pet Supplies

Discount Pet Supplies — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:04:17 +0000

These pill pockets can really be a life saver when it comes to giving your pet both dogs and cats their medicine.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:30:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing your tricks & tips!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:51:50 +0000

We use the peanut butter trick, but I will admit we are very lucky with our dog, Hadley. She is willing to eat just about anything, especially if you hold it up and make a big deal about “I’m going to give you a TREAT now!”

By: j9lazur

j9lazur — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:15:20 +0000

My dogs get suspicious of pills buried in soft treats too and will eat the treat but filter out, then spit out, the pill. My tricks: 1) Feed them a few treats (cheese, liverwurst, a pill pocket, whatever) that DON’T have the pill. They eat the empty first one. I say “more?” then give an empty second. I say “more?” again and by this time they’re just excited for more and I can slip the pill in the 3rd one and there’s no suspicion or scrutiny at this point. The pill gets eaten with the treat b/c they’re hardly chewing at this point just swallowing yummy treats. 2) My other trick is to mix the pill among hard and soft things in an “hors d’oeuvre” made of a mini doggie biscuit, pnut butter on top and pill tucked in the peanut butter. In crunching that treat, a pill is hard to distinguish among the crunchy biscuit and gooey peanut butter. 3) Placebos. When I got my puppy, my older dog was already on daily meds that I gave her using trick 2 above. And when I give them to the dog, I actually call them “pills”. My puppy would sit and wait for a “pill” too. So I’d give her puppy a pnut butter topped biscuit called a “pill” too. Now that she’s older herself and sometimes does need pills, “pills” are no problem because she grew up eating “pill” hors d’oeuvres. The word “pill”alone gets her excited enough to come over and salivate and never to get suspicious.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:51:39 +0000

My dog now knows that Pill Pockets = pill, so she won’t go near them. (This from the dog that tries to eat birdseed and lettuce.) For some reason, she doesn’t associate bread w/ pills, so I put her allergy pill in a little wad of low-cal bread. I think it helps that she sees her brother and sister get a little bit of crust, too!

By: Jaime

Jaime — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:01:01 +0000

I’ve never fed blueberries to my dog, but they’re like nature’s pill pockets! I will have to try this, too. Thanks, Michele.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:00:27 +0000

Wow that sounds like a lot of work!