Feed-room note

Getting granules into the bowl (and into the dog)

Panacur C's whole bedside manner is that there is no pill. The granules have hardly any taste, and mixed through wet food most dogs never break stride. The technique still matters, because a dose the dog does not finish is a dose the dog did not get.

Serve small. Mix the packet into a half-portion of the usual breakfast, let it vanish, then top up with the plain remainder. A dog facing its ordinary bowl eats with ordinary confidence — a strange new food on worming day invites suspicion exactly when you need appetite.

Kibble feeders: moisten first. A tablespoon of warm water or plain broth makes the granules cling to the pieces instead of sifting to the bottom of the bowl, where a tidy eater will leave them like sand in a sieve.

Multi-dog kitchens should separate the diners for ten minutes. The medicated bowl has to be finished by its owner, not raided by the resident vacuum — both for the patient's sake and because the vacuum has its own weight and its own dose.

If your dog defeats all of this — some do — fold the day's granules into a spoon of plain yogurt, a smear of wet food on a saucer, or the inside of a hollow toy. The label only insists on one thing: all of it, once a day, three days running.