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Managing Dog Medications at Home

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We’d love to hear how you manage your dog’s medication at home - including regular flea and worm treatments. Your feedback will help us understand what would make giving medication easier, safer and less stressful for dogs and owners. It’s anonymous, takes around 5–10 minutes, and there are no right or wrong answers — just your honest experiences. Thank you for taking part!
1.How confident do you feel about giving your dog their medication?
2.How do you remember to give your dogs their medication? Please tick which of these apply to you:
3.Have you ever had problems with any of these? Please tick which of these apply to you:
4.Have you put medication into your dogs' meals? Please tick all that apply
5.Are there any foods or treats you’ve found particularly helpful for disguising or giving your dog’s medication? Please describe.
6.Have you ever needed to put medication straight into your dog’s mouth (for
example, placing a pill at the back of the tongue)?
7.Here are some other tricky medication management things! Please tick all that apply.
8.Please tell us about any other things you’ve tried to get your dogs to take their medication such as techniques, routines or creative ideas.
9.Please tell us about any ideas you haven’t tried but think might work to help dogs take their medication.
10.Do you ever mark the medication label — for example, by writing on it or using a highlighter?
11.Where do you go to find out more information about the medication? Please tick all that apply
12.Where do you keep your dogs’ medication: Please tick all that apply
13.Do you keep your dog’s medication in any of the following places? Please tick all that apply.
14.Have you ever had problems with any of these? Please tick all that apply
15.Do you have any top tips or tricks for managing your dog’s medication? Please share below
16.Any other comments or suggestions about giving medication to dogs? We’d love to hear them!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and your ideas for helping other people manage their dogs’ medication more easily, safely and with less stress all round. Every response helps us learn more about what really works for dogs and their humans

The Helpily website has lots of ideas for helping people give their dogs medication, and we'll add the great information and suggestions we get from this survey. Thanks again!
Please visit: www.helpily.org/managing-medications-at-home