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Member Posts: 33 |
Ok, so I just got our bottle of Tylan Powder and happened to touch my mouth with my finger and this stuff is HORID tasting! Is there any special that you guys get your dogs to take this stuff or do most of them just eat it without a problem? I know I wouldnt be eating it thats for sure haha! | |
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Member Posts: 884 |
I've got them in gelcaps, myself, but I've heard other people hiding it in a bit of cream cheese or something else equally tasty. | |
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-- Proud mommy to Vito, 3(?) yr old GSD. 90lbs, goal weight 85-90lbs (ACHIEVED!). Tested positive for EPI on March 30th, 2011. His TLI was 1.0, Cobalamin 225, Folate 22. Feeding 2 cups of Taste of the Wild Bison once a day with one teaspoon of Pancreatin 8x enzymes per meal. Also proud mommy of a (non EPI) Belgian Malinois tripod named Lizzie. That means three legs. "Sometimes it takes an imperfection to create perfection."
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Member Posts: 727 |
I just mix through Wallace's food, he doesn't even notice! x | |
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-- Wallace rescue GSD. Currently feeding James Wellbeloved Turkey and Vegetable Cereal Free and some Butcher's Tripe. Four teaspoons Pancrex Granules and 2 Lypex capsules per meal. (Will go back to raw pig pancreas soon.) Three meals a day 3 times per week, 2 meals a day the other 4 days otherwise he stops eating. Tylan 1/8 teaspoon twice a day (this is half the recommended dose for his weight but the recommended dose made his poos soft!) Synbiotic D-C (probiotic and prebiotic) capsule once a day. Monthly B12 injection.
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Member Posts: 330 |
Star will eat it on her food, but she usually takes a bite and gives me this look like "I can't believe you made this taste so bad". Often I will put the Tylan in a gelcap and put that inside a bit of hot dog, just so she doesn't have to taste it. Lisa | |
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Member Posts: 33 |
also, my vet just told me to dose it at 420 mg twice daily, but heres the thing, 1/8 tsp is 325 mg! How do you measure that?? | |
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Member Posts: 1594 |
I just mix it into the food just before feeding and have never had a problem. I have never gone by mg, just by tsp size. http://www.epi4dogs.com/sibo.htm This page has the dosage of what is usually recommended. | |
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Member Posts: 2160 |
I could feed Tylan either way but when I realised it was an on-going med., then I would put it in gel capsules. In the early days though, I would just make a little pocket in the food & pop it in there. My girl was raw fed so I think it is easier to do that with raw than it is with kibble, so I think the gel capsules is probably the way to go.
Good luck. | |
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-- Lynn, From Melbourne, Australia. Owned by Tess (Irish Setter), Grace (English Setter) & Megg, my beautiful 'English' EPI Angel - Forever in my heart. .
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Member Posts: 105 |
OMG...I tasted it and it is soooo nasty!!!! I did the gelcaps for awhile but now I just mix it with her food again. Sometimes when she is being really picky I add shredded carrots to her food. Tired pumpkin and sweet potato but she didn't like it | |
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-- Basia - GSD Mix - Born 7/2002 - Diagnosed 9/17/09 9/17/09 Weight 45 TLI: 0.6 Folate: 18 Cobalamin: 265 Giardia: Positive Treatment: B12 - Once a week for 6 weeks - Next 3 treatments every other week - Then once a month for 2-3 - Metronidazole 500mg for 30 days - Panacurdosed for 5 days - Enzymes: 2 Tsp to 2 cups of food twice a day incubate 45+ minutes Food: DVP Venison and Sweet Potato 11/20/09 Weight 63 02/14/10 Weight 75
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Member Posts: 2190 |
well I just measure 1/8th of a tspoon and mix it with honey or marmite and mix in with food and down it goes or get a very tiny spoon which the vet gave me you may get one from the drug store also make sure that if you get it on your fingers dont rub your eyes it hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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-- Kara:: adopted at five months old 26th December 2009 always hungry more than any of my other dogs became noticeably distressed August 2010 Two vet visits and............. Diagnosed with EPI at 14 months old September 2010 tli<1.00 folate 8.3 cobalimin 611 taking 2 Oxytet antibiotics 3 times a day and eating Nutrix grain free duck and potato kibble and starting to put weight on currently 33 kilos as of 20th June 2011 we also use Tylan if we dont have the time to use the oxytet as it has to be on an empty tum, enzymes at the moment Pancrex granules 3 teaspoons per meal she is 2 yrs old as of 21st July 2011 "UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WAS INVENTED BY DOGS"
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Member Posts: 1843 |
I have always done gel caps because Mr. Sensitivity here wouldn't touch anything that tasted that bad. He even figured a way to hide the pills for a while so he wouldn't have to swallow them. But we figured it out and made sure they went "down the hatch." Barb | |
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Member Posts: 1843 |
I have always done gel caps because Mr. Sensitivity here wouldn't touch anything that tasted that bad. He even figured a way to hide the pills for a while so he wouldn't have to swallow them. But we figured it out and made sure they went "down the hatch." Barb | |
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Member Posts: 2473 |
Ted is like Hondo, takes it mixed in his food. He doesn't even hesitate to eat it that way. I dose him by tsp not mg. | |
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-- Kathy and Ted 9 yr old GSD rescue ~72 lbs now 109 lbs
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Member Posts: 33 |
It really is the nastiest thing ever, i had the taste in my mouth for like an hour! Then, i must have gotten some on the table and i smelled it all night. lol. I work at a vet clinic and i can only get the caps in a bag of 1000. so i ended up finding them at a holistic food store, aparently they use them to mix "herbs" and "vitamins" lol | |
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Site Owner Posts: 7645 |
I too have accidently tasted Tylan on my fingers... and boy oh boy it sure is NASTY!!!!!! but i must admit..thankfully.... that i have never then rubbed my eyes with it... Jean.... only you would come up with that!!!! My gal Izzy eats everything... except anything dosed with Tylan powder!!!!!... so we have to camoflage it in cream cheese.... | |
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-- Olesia, owned by Izzy-45lb SWD, Diagnosed at 1.5 years old - TLI results 1.3, Stable almost 7 yrs! Once stable, was able to reduce enzymes to only 1/2 tsp of Enzymes with each meal, but after almost 4 years of stabilization... had to increase the amount of enzymes to 3/4 teaspoon with each meal. Feed various grain-free kibble+real meat, 6x pancreatin enzymes from EnzymeDiane. I give 1 tsp of coconut oil one day and 1 tsp salmon oil next day, and also give canned sardines packed without salt or canned herring for extra omega oils.
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Member Posts: 33 |
So I didnt get the chance to get up to buy the capsules last night and I figured Id at least try to just put it in her food...well surprise surprise she sucked it down with her food just like every other meal, lol. AND again this morning! So I guess I saved myself a trip and some money. No need for the capsules after all! | |
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Member Posts: 2473 |
That's great that she ate it with her food. That's why I always recommend trying it in the food - try the easy way first. If they won't eat in the food then on to plan B.. | |
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-- Kathy and Ted 9 yr old GSD rescue ~72 lbs now 109 lbs
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Member Posts: 33 |
I really shouldnt have doubted she would...this dog will eat ANYthing...ie dropped onions, lettus, mushrooms. lol | |
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