How To Restrain a Dog

Posted by Clare Bristow | Leave a Comment

I had to take Zoe to the vet this week - she needed to have her stitches removed after her spay operation.

When the vet asked me to restrain Zoe whilst she removed the stitches I naively thought it would be quite a straightforward task because she's usually pretty good at standing still to be examined.

However she wriggled about on the table and started kicking out with her legs and I just couldn't keep her still. She was giving quite a performance until the veterinary nurse came in and effectively pinned her to the table for the minute or so it took to remove the stitches!

There are many occasions when you may need to restrain your dog - at the vet, examining your dog for an injury, applying medication - and knowing how to do it effectively will be less stressful for your dog and reduces the risk of the person examining your dog being nipped.

I found the following video on ; it's a training video for veterinary nurses and it shows you a number ways to restrain your dog, including the lateral recumbent position that I have yet to master!

I hope you find this video a useful resource; it runs for 4m56s.




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How to Give Your Dog a Pill

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Giving your sounds straightforward, but how many times have you found bits of the pill on the carpet minutes after you think he's successfully swallowed it? You are then faced with the dilemma of whether need to medicate him again as you're not sure how much he's actually ingested!

This 40 second video shows you how to - and make sure he swallows it!

A trick I use is to blow very gently on my dogs' nostrils as soon as I've put the pill in their mouths - the extra air on their noses cause them to swallow.

However, these tricks may be becoming a thing of the past - Fritz was prescribed with some antibiotics recently for a nose infection, and we couldn't work out why he happily chomped on the pills each time we gave him one. Reading the ingredients we discovered that they were liver flavored!

So, until the day all medicines are liver flavor, I hope this video helps with the tricky problem of getting your dog to swallow a pill:


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