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No more mixing her medicine into chop or on toast or hiding it anywhere.
I put it directly into a tiny stainless steel condiment cup that I use for those feedings and offered it to her. She lapped it up like a dog and licked the bowl.
Why didn't I offer it that way first?
So. . . . I showed her the syringe. Evil. Then gradually I showed the syringe, tapped the bowl with it, offered a drop of the yummy medicine. She took the bait. Now completely syringe trained, no biting the syringe even.
Two times a day that bird gets medicine. This all happened within just a few days!
We've gone to easy peasy for medicine.
Amazons.......
I put it directly into a tiny stainless steel condiment cup that I use for those feedings and offered it to her. She lapped it up like a dog and licked the bowl.
Why didn't I offer it that way first?
So. . . . I showed her the syringe. Evil. Then gradually I showed the syringe, tapped the bowl with it, offered a drop of the yummy medicine. She took the bait. Now completely syringe trained, no biting the syringe even.
Two times a day that bird gets medicine. This all happened within just a few days!
We've gone to easy peasy for medicine.
Amazons.......