My Instead: I gave my client’s pug his pill for epilepsy.
One of my favorite client’s called me earlier in the day to ask if
I could go over to her house around 7 o’clock to give her pug Walter his
epilepsy medication. She lives in Belleville’s east end which was where I would
be working, so stopping by to do this would be no problem for me. I wasn’t sure
what Walter would think.
It worked out that I could get there at 5 o’clock, so my client
and I agreed that I could put in a couple of hours cleaning out her flower
beds. I had already done a half-day in her yard the week prior. Anytime I have
an opening to do a job outdoors, I’m on it! As soon as I arrived there, I got
busy with the yard. The weather continued to spoil me by providing another evening
of low humidity and temperatures. When I finished the beds in the front, I navigated
to the back yard where I continued to weed and trim.
As 7 o’clock drew near, my original purpose for being there was
getting close too. Earlier in our phone conversation, my client had suggested
several tricks to get Walter to take his pill. The one I chose was to tease
Walter with the meat of a McDonald’s hamburger, then wrap the pill up in part
of the bun and slip it to him. I stepped out of the kitchen to watch him chow
down on the burger meat. When it was actual pill time, I got brave and let him
take the bun-wrapped pill right out of my hand…like feeding candy to a baby.
As I headed back out to do the last bit of yard work before dark,
I gazed around the kitchen floor to make sure Walter’s pill was not hidden in
the shadows. I think it was safe to say he took it! Success!
My experience of giving a dog medication was zero until Walter. I
had a dog Alex for 12 years who never was sick, so this was a first for me. I
don’t think vet school is in my future, but this I could do again…at least for
Walter. Heck, you never know…maybe someday they’ll have to wrap up my pill in a
McDonald’s hamburger bun to choke it down me!
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