Wheaten Health Matters — SCWTCA Endowment, Inc.

Wheaten Health Matters is an independent Facebook group from the SCWTCA Endowment Inc. If you are interested in participating, go to ‘Wheaten Health Matters’. There are over 12,000 Wheaten owners worldwide who are dedicated to health of the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Get important updated information, feedback and support from owners and breeders, and learn from each other.

A Way to Hide a Pill

We were asked for a way to hide a pill for a dog with PLE on a hydrolyzed diet. We asked the expert, Dr. Katie Tolbert, DVM, Ph.D. DACVIM (SAIM, SA Nutrition) Clinical Associate Professor in Small Animal Comparative Gastroenterology. She very kindly helped us out, and we thought we should share the information.

She first asked what Hydrolyzed diet the dog was on because some have some canned options. Since this dog was on Purina HA vegetarian she gave us a recipe for homemade Pill Pockets and also said we could use vegan marshmallows. I have added the Recipe for Pill Pockets to the SCWTCA website. Here is the link: https://scwtca.org/health/protein-losing-enteropathy/

If you have a dog diagnosed with PLE, please be sure to enter it into the database with its health testing. Thanks and Happy Days to you and your Wheaten.