Hi, my bf and I have been struggling inserting eye drops for our 12 week old Aussie puppy. One of our cats scratched her eye when they were playing and we took her to the vet same day.
The vet and staff had trouble with her. She is incredibly squirmy and likes to threaten bites when we try to get her in position to give the eye drops. We have tried positive reinforcement with high value treats, tried warming her up to it, giving her prescribed gabapentin from the vet and I wait till peak effectiveness to try inserting the drops and it’s still so hard to insert the drops. She doesn’t even want the syringe in her mouth for the gabapentin.. Any sort of holding her causes her to go crazy.
I kinda just squeeze the drops in the general direction of her eye when she is still enough and hope for the best now lol. Does anyone have any other advice? I want her eye to get better but I can’t tell if we are actually getting it in her eye and I feel bed when she screams as if we are hurting her which I know we are not. Please no negative comments. 😞 we are just at a loss now and want to make it a more positive experience for her.
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