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Easy ways to administer Baytril.

tonibun

Wise Old Thumper
Took Lee to be castrated today but they couldn't do him as he has a lot of pus around his willy. Any ideas what that might be? They said possibly an infection. So he's on Baytril for a week. Any easy ways to get it into him please?
 
I put it on a basil leaf roll it up and wrap another one around it violet just snatches it out mi hand :)
 
Baytril's pretty foul-tasting :mrgreen: so it's one of the harder ones to 'get down them' I find.

Is he very food-motivated? Alfie usually readily scoffs it down if I hide the dose in a basil leaf and wrap it up, or add it to a tiny amount of veg or fruit baby food. I've also had some success with making a teeny tiny bite-sized baytril sandwich - putting the dose between 2 pieces of wholemeal bread. Bubbles seems to be able to smell drugged food though :roll::lol: so I just have to bite the bullet and syringe her.
 
I hollowed out a grape (took a bit of practise lol) then put the meds inside. I only had to medicate once a day but if you need to dose several times a day you'd be better off trying the basil leaf option as Wendle said as the fruit is very sugary :)
 
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