💊What is the easiest way to give your dog a pill? What foods in your kitchen are most helpful to get those pills down? Here’s how to increase your success of getting medications into your pet. 💊Giving oral medications to your pet can be a challenge for many pet parents. Fortunately, pilling a pet is not an impossible task once you learn a few tricks. 💊Plus, when your pet absolutely won’t take a pill in food, we show you how to pill your pet. – PLEASE never try to administer a pill forcefully to a dog or cat with a painful mouth or neck. – If your pet is growling or becomes fearful, STOP and abort the pilling mission. – Even if the medication is important for your pet’s health well-being, it is best to use good judgment and avoid getting bit. – Please contact your veterinarian who prescribed the medication for additional recommendations about what to do if you cannot get the medication in.

Nothing is more stressful than when your pet won’t eat. In this video, Dr Sue shares some of her personal experiences with her own pets that would not eat when they were sick. She knows the frustrations of a pet this won’t eat. Inappetence can be quality of life. She also shares her favorite medications she prescribes to get your pet eating sooner. Often it takes medications AND the veterinary tricks I showed you in part one. Plus check out successful methods from other pet parents that have worked for their dogs and cats when they stopped eating. https://youtu.be/VOlhyWxPsrk

What can you do if your dog or cat won’t eat? How can you tempt your pet to eat at home? In this vlog, Dr Sue is joined by boarded internist Dr Kerry Heuter (and her hubby) to give you tips you can do right now at home. Plus find out successful methods from her community of pet parents that have worked for their dogs and cats when they stopped eating. Nothing is more stressful than a pet that refuses to eat or is picky. And in part 2 we will cover medications that you can use in addition to get you pet eating sooner.

Amputation is a shocking thing to consider for pet owners for their pet. If you are watching this, you might be considering amputation & are overwhelmed thinking about removing your pet’s leg. As a cancer specialist, we often have to recommend amputation for dogs with bone cancer in the leg. And it is a somewhat easy recommendation because we veterinarians know the dogs are in pain from their tumor, and we know how well the dogs will adapt and how great they will do after the surgery. In this VLOG, Dr Sue breaks it all down for you, including what to expect at surgery, the recovery, and how well dogs recover and adapt. And we will go over high owner satisfaction rates. We know it’s not an easy decision, but we hope this information helps.

If your dog or cat is going through chemotherapy, this is what you need to know about home safety. In this video, Dr Sue covers: – handling urine and feces, and vomit too – cleaning your cat’s litter box – handling chemotherapy pills at home – dealing with accidents in the house – when to wear gloves and what gloves she recommends – is it ok to be around your pet going through chemo, and hug and kiss them?

Dr Sue is joined by Dr Lisa Lippman NYC House Call Vet to go over their favorite myths and tips you need to know to keep your dogs and cats healthy.