If I give a treat afterwards, Storm uses it to swish around his mouth
(or so it seems), gets the wormer all over the treat, then spits it all out!
Kathy
Beth wrote:
When you get to the point of actually giving medication -- One thing
that also helped with me was to ALWAYS follow the medication with a treat,
given as soon as possible without having them use the treat to spit out the
medication. I would have enough treats with me to get the medicine taste out of
their mouths.
For me - it
has helped a lot. I didn't think it was fair to teach them that a syringe
tasted good, and then do a switch-up on them, leaving them with a medicine
taste. I know that with my old horse Shadow, until I learned this, giving
wormers and meds was a much bigger chore.
