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Syringe Feeding Help needed...

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sport_billy

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Can anyone give us some tips on how to syringe feed, we have to do this to Pitch today before she undergo's GA for Dental work tomorrow. We are using Oxbow critical care with water and pineapple juice...

The vet said it was fairly simple, but struggling to get her to open mouth... He also said the was chance of it going down the wrong way into lungs is this common?

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hi, you do have to be very careful.

I was advised to go in from the side of the front teeth, put the syringe just behind and let it go in slowly not in quick spurts. If no one comes up with any help, i think there will be a link to it somewhere.

hope the dental goes ok.
 
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