Tomlyn Products 079-427463 Pill-Masker Original for Cats & Dogs Bacon, 4 oz

Our 13 year old Jack Russell has heart disease and takes 6 pills a day. He was becoming very adept at eating the chicken or cheese and spitting out the tablet. We saw this on Amazon and though expensive, gave it a try. It has been absolutely fantastic. So easy to shape like plasticine around the pill and he takes straight down. Judging by other reviews it might not work for all dogs or cats but for us, it has been superb. You don’t need to use much around each pill and the 4oz pot should last us a couple of months.

Having read the reviews I thought my cat will eat this to take her pills… oh how I was wrong. She sniffed it and turned her back and walked away. One fussy and expensive cat. £32 of putty that will never get eaten 😩

My dog has to take one pill and capsule for an enlarged heart. This bacon masked it for awhile just as every other product we tried he is always finding the medication, it works for maybe a week. It's a very good product and easy to use

This stuff is made, I'm convinced, of actual magic. I have an incredibly picky dog who also has to have daily medication. It's been a pain trying to figure that out for years. I tried a lot of things--peanut butter, cheese, her dog food, treats, the pill pockets, etc, and every option I ever tried either resulted in her refusing to eat it at all, or being inconsistent on whether she would eat it on a daily basis. I had to throw out meds here and there over the years because the pills would end up disintegrating in the peanut butter or whatever else I was using, before I could get her to eat it because she would let it sit there for hours. It also meant I couldn't be sure she was getting her needed medication every day. And it was a pain whenever I needed to have someone else watch her, because I had to come up with a complicated system of covering the pills and I couldn't do it ahead of time because the pills would disintegrate and she wouldn't eat it, but to ask people to do the system and have her still refuse to eat it was a big pain. Considering her medication is related to severe separation anxiety that has resulted in her injuring herself in the past, it was especially a problem if she wouldn't consistently have her medication when I wasn't around to keep trying when I was home before/after work. Added to all this, I have one of the few dogs that is apparently allergic to chicken(?), so I can't buy her anything with chicken or chicken byproducts in it. Which, if you've ever read ingredients on dog food and treats, is almost everything. Then, one day, I saw the Tomlyn pill-masker at a pet store near me and I figured, what the hell. I'll give it a try. And I'm so glad I did! This stuff is frickin AMAZING! She literally, not once in the 2-3 years I've been using this, has EVER refused to take anything that was wrapped in this. Because it's a substance I can cut/tear pieces off, I can use it to mask any size of item I need. I've offered her chewable tablets for short-term meds for her before that's supposed to be something a dog will eat straight and she won't touch it; I go and put even a super thin layer of the Tomlyn pill masker on it and give it back to her and she eats it immediately. Even the time or two where I made too big of a pill ball for her and she couldn't easily eat it because of teeth issues, if I tear it into smaller pieces she has zero problems eating it. In previous configurations I tried, if she started to eat it and it fell open and she could smell or see the meds inside, she would refuse to eat more of it even if I tried covering the edges with whatever I was using (like peanut butter or etc) -- but with this stuff, the few times she's seen what's inside I just put a bit more of the Tomlyn pill masker over the edge and she had no problems downing it. Also, because of the consistency of this pill masker, it is sooooo easy to bring traveling with her--I can just cut off a chunk, throw it in a baggy or a sealed bottle, and I'm good to go. It also is super easy to explain to people watching her when I'm on vacation; it's really easy to understand that all they have to do is tear off a piece and cover the meds and she'll eat it. I genuinely do not know what I would do without this. I was getting to a point where I was running out of realistic options for giving her medication before I found this. This has made my morning routine with my dog approximately 1000 times faster and simpler and less stressful, as well as those occasions when she has specialty meds from a vet visit (like now, when she had minor surgery and I have to give her pain meds, etc, in addition to her other medication). I honestly feel like by now it would be getting near impossible to deal with her pickiness in trying to give her medication, if it weren't for this product. The biggest issue I have is so few pet stores carry this; it was only the one store where I ever found it, and then they stopped carrying it. I freaked out until I realized I could find it online -- and it's even an add-on item at the moment for Amazon! If you ask me, this product is ridiculously amazing, and it's 100% worth the price. If you have a picky eater of a dog and if you need to make sure you can consistently give them their meds, I really recommend you try this out. If your dog is anything like mine, your only regret will be not having found this sooner.

Love this product. Perfect for the purpose

It is really hard to find the right pill wrap, and it got harder when I discovered that my 9-year-old schnorkie rescue, Birdie, was allergic to chicken, and that was the reason for digestive problems she's had for the year that I've had her. Almost impossible to find an easy to manipulate pill wrap with no chicken in the ingredients AND your dog also likes. I have literally tried half a dozen products over the last 6 months. I have given some away because my dog won't touch them. I have given some away because they are slimy and I gag when I touch them. I have wasted time trying to soften products enough to successfully wrap them around pills. I have endured pill wrap that won't stick to the pills. Finally, finally I have landed on my forever product. This product has it all. My dog loves, loves, loves the taste. The product is soft and easy to form around any pill, is not oily or greasy, is reasonably price, doesn't seem to dry out, and a little bit goes a long way. You don't have to bury a teeny tiny pill in a huge amount of treat because the smell is apparently so appealing that the smallest amount will suffice. She has never tried to separate and spit the pill away from this product. I am so glad to finally have identified a truly good product. I can quit wasting money trying one after the other. I just put myself on Subscribe & Save, and as long as Birdie doesn't change her mind about the flavor, we are good forever.

I have struggled for 16 years to give my now elderly dog any kind of medicine. I’ve tried hiding it in so many different kinds of food but my dog always seamed to know I was hiding medicine in it and would start refusing it after a couple of times but this Pill Masker is a game changer!! It smells like bacon and my dog loves it… I’ve never had an easier time giving him meds and it’s a good thing because he’s now taking 5 pills a day (he has a bacterial infection) for the next two weeks! It is pricey but so worth it! Thanks for making my life easier!