Product Description

No more forcing pills down your pets throat. Simply put the pill inside the Pill Pocket, pinch the open end of the pocket shut and feed as a treat. Contains probiotics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6602 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Greenies

Features

• Hides your cat's pills in a treat
• No more forcing pills down your pets throat
• Contains probiotics

Customer Reviews

Mixed results, and some tips
I have three older cats who take arthritis pills. One also takes a thyroid pill. I decided to try the pill pockets. For the first month or so, they all loved them, and they made it easy to give the pills. However, after three months:

One cat still loves them. I have to watch her carefully or she will steal the pills from the others.

One cat has figured out how to eat around the pill.

One cat sometimes takes them, but at other times just sniffs the pocket and skips it.

I have figured out a few tricks that help:

There are two types of pockets for cats: chicken and salmon. The chicken is slightly larger and more pliable and works better with larger pills. However, I think that the cats find the salmon tastier.

Get another cat treat and stick it to the side of the pill pocket. Then place the pocket so the treat faces down. My finicky cat is much more likely to eat the whole thing that way.

The pill pocket still helps with the cat who eats around it. After she eats the pill pocket, it is easier to shove the pill down her throat. She is more likely to swallow it instead of spitting it out if it tastes of pill pocket.

If you have two pills, try to fit them both in one pocket. Giving the cat fewer pockets will make it seem more of a treat.

When it comes to pets...we owners will try everything...
...and I did. My cat was diagnosed with asthma and it was then that it became necessary to pill him daily. He was feral his first year of life so pilling has always been impossible, especially since I have no one to help me with the whole process. Thanks to pill pockets, I have kept him alive and his asthma under control by myself, without adding to his condition due to stress (a common asthma trigger) from forced pilling. I've heard that some cats don't go for these treats, but my two boys gobble them up, pill and all. I'm not sure what I would have tried next if these hadn't worked. If you've had trouble pilling and you've run out of ideas, they are definitely worth a shot. Of course, if your cat is super smart and knows how to spit out pills, the treats, in and of themselves, are still great snacks!

Makes life easier but a word of caution
So glad I got these. My cat is on a motility agent and I dreaded giving him the pills remembering the nightmare it was last year when I had to give him antibiotics for a month. With these it's no sweat. He gobbles it up. So much so that he begs for them. Today I got home and he'd managed to get the whole bag off the shelf he normally doesn't reach and tore up the bag and ate them all (more than 30 of them were left). I cringed at the thought of what would have happened if I'd decided to prefill the pockets with the meds. It would have been a tragedy - he would have overdosed and died. Thank goodness I had the instinct not to do that. So word of advice is do never prefill the treats in bulk. No matter how safe you think your storage place is.