My dog had knee surgery Tuesday. She has 4 medications to take everyday. 3 are not chewable. She is allergic to wheat, which is a primary ingredient in pill pockets.
I made my own using peanut butter, homemade oat flour, and pumpkin puree. But I need something more shelf stable, so I replaced the pumpkin puree with liver powder. The new version is very sticky, and not pliable like store bought pill pockets. So when I roll them out into balls, over a short period of time they coalesce back into one giant glob.
Looking for ideas for an add in that will help me get them less sticky.
For those unfamiliar with pill pockets.
My first batch of homemade
Dog tax
Edit: while I appreciate how everyone is giving their dogs pills (except you mouth stuffers, give the pupper a damn treat), I am really looking for ways to perfect my pill pocket recipe.
Her current schedule has 3 dosings after bedtime. My wife's cat lives in the room we are sequestered. My son's cat tries to sneak into the room to fight with my wife's cat. So if I can avoid leaving the room as much as possible to prevent him from getting into the room it makes everyone's life better.
Ah, the intricacies of multi-pet politics. ๐
In that case I would probably make something that needs to be refrigerated but then just take out the required dosage (three pockets) as I'm going to bed. No matter what the ingredients are they'll be fine out of the fridge for a few hours. You could also try rice flour instead of oats.
It looks like Presidio has a line of wheat-free pill pockets for dogs. (They do have barley in the ingredients, though.) Sorry for the Amazon link. They do seem to be available at a few other places as well.
Hmm, those contain brewers yeast. I am going to try adding some nutritional yeast to mine. I thought about xanthan gum, but it is a corn byproduct and unsure how she will react to that.
This is probably what I am going to do.