How do you get your buns to take their meds when too small for juice mixed in and too small and wriggly for syringe to fit behind their front teeth?!?
10 week old disabled bun with suspected E cuniculli on metacam and panacur in hopes to get rid of it and ideally regain ability to use his back legs fully but he doesn’t even seem to notice he can’t use them and we’re happy to keep up the work required in cleaning him if he doesn’t recover so as long as his quality of life is good he’ll be staying with us even if he doesn’t improve.
Here’s the issue! He is an awful med taker especially for panacur which is the most important and I’m really struggling to get it all in him and stressing as I know how important it is that I do! I’ve tried swaddling firmly, loosely, picking him up, putting him at eye level so I can see properly, attempting to gently lift his head for better access but still he just shakes his head when he sees the syringe and kicks at me, I get some in but not the full dose which worries me.
It’s got to the point where he recognises his set med time daily and actually hopped away from me at such speed earlier I was amazed when I went near his pen 🤣 I appreciate his attitude and energy levels still but I need him to take it!! Any advice on techniques to try, where I’m going wrong or what worked for you would be immensely helpful as we’re not even a week in!