Pill-Masker Original Bacon-Flavored Paste for Dogs & Cats, 4oz

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.

My cat needs 7 pills a day. The Tomlyn Pill Masker has been a life saver for us. He took his meds with pill pockets for many years, then one day decided he didn’t like them anymore. I tried Tomlyn Pill Masker and thankfully he took them!

I’m convinced my Chihuahua could teach a masterclass on how to detect medication hidden in food. Over the years I’ve tried what feels like every trick known to humankind: cheese, peanut butter, hot dogs, pill pockets, deli meat, crushing pills, hiding them in wet food, bribery, bargaining, dramatic sighing, and even pretending to eat the treat myself like it’s some kind of culinary treasure. My dog spotted every single attempt like a tiny four-legged detective and would surgically remove the pill from whatever I hid it in. Then I found Tomlyn Pill-Masker. I rolled a small ball, tucked the pill inside, and braced myself for the usual suspicious sniff and rejection. Instead, my dog inhaled it like it was the greatest delicacy ever created. No hesitation, no pill excavation, no dramatic spit-out across the room. Just gone. I honestly don’t know what wizardry is in this paste, but it works. The texture is perfect for molding around pills, it sticks well, and apparently the flavor passes the very strict Chihuahua taste test. If you have a stubborn, suspicious, or theatrically picky dog who treats medication time like a battle of wills, this stuff might save your sanity. It certainly saved mine. Medication time in my house went from a daily strategic operation to a 5-second non-event. Whoever invented this deserves a medal.

I have to give my dog, who has had two leg surgeries and major arthritis in both his knees, five pills in the morning and five pills in the evening and if pain is horrible two pills in the afternoon. Tomlin's is one of the best pill wraps that I found. My dog does not eat them like a treat (well my other dog does. She thinks the pill wrap is a treat and loves it) I literally use this just to keep his pills together so I can put them down his throat all at once. Now with that being said this product is great because it is way less greasy than other products. It makes everything more manageable and cleaner for me. We are on a subscription where a two pack of these comes every 2 months. Now lately our product has either come late, not at all because they're out of stock, arrive with no lid at all or the top aluminum foil seal was not sealed flat and had a wrinkle in it which then would let air in and I would be given a big old hard rock of pill paste. I just noticed when I ordered just now a single jar because my last subscription didn't come because they were out of stock that the advertisement says that it does not dry out. This is false. If you do not put that aluminum sealant flat back down when putting on the cover it will dry out. Even with the cover tightly secured. There is no way to fix it once it is dried out. I have put a slightly moist piece of paper towel in there just so it could suck up some of the moisture and that literally turns it into a gross sticky dumpling feel. Now with all this being said, yes the product is not RETURNABLE, however it is still REFUNDABLE or REPLACEABLE. All Tomlin and Amazon are saying is that once the product is damaged they do not want it back, but they will replace the damage product or refund you the money. Unfortunately these last few months I know this first hand because of all the issues that I've had. I did have to buy a container of a competitor's product when they were out of stock and couldn't replace the damaged item that they sent me. Even though my one dog who thinks that pill wrap is a treat still liked the flavor, I did not like the greasy feel of it. It was virtually impossible once I got a Gob of the pill paste in my hand to pick up the capsule needed to put in it because my hands were so greasy. Now with all that being said I am still a Tomlin customer and will be in hopes that it was just a bad few months and they fixed their problems.

Great product, always looking for a clever way to feed my cat his medicine and these worked

My cat refused every flavor of the pill pockets in the green bags. His medication is in tablet form and must taste terrible. I was really tired of getting scratched and it was damaging our relationship everyday for me to grab him up while he was sleeping, burrito him in a towel and force him to swallow the pill coated in butter. I read another pet parent’s advice to split to tablet in half and hide it inside of a chicken flavored empty capsule (purchased at the same time on Amazon). I have to trim a small amount of the empty capsule so that it is as small as necessary to hide the halved tablet. Then I roll the capsule in this pill paste. I also roll 2 delicious crunchy cat treats in the pull paste and give him one of those first, immediately followed by the medication version and before he even swallows it, I offer the other delicious treat version - all 3 covered in the pill paste. He sometimes chews the first version which is why I use a pill-paste covered treat first - I don’t want him chewing the “real” one which is the second one. I give the “real” one very quickly and rush him by offering the second treat one before he even thinks about chewing the terrible-tasting tablet one in the capsule. So far, so good - it’s worked for over a week and I no longer dread medication time.

Everyone who has a cat, knows that they can be finicky. I almost hate to write a review on something based on my cat either loving or hating it, because it could easily go completely the other way with your cat. Unfortunately for me, in this case, my cat hates this. She takes a chemo pill 3x a week in the morning. We don't have any problems with this because we give it to her before setting down her breakfast. We stick the pill in a Greenies pill pocket and she eats it willingly because she's good and hungry first thing in the morning. What we have problems with, is her steroid pill that she takes daily in the evening (has to be in the evening) before dinner. By this time of day, she's not ravenous enough anymore to just wolf down anything put in front of her. She's decided that the pill pocket is okay for breakfast, but she won't touch it later in the day. I got this product hoping it would be an evening alternative to the morning pill pocket. Unfortunately she wouldn't touch it . . . not even once . . . not even as a treat by itself with no pill inside. I've tried many different things and what seems to work for a day or two, doesn't work consistently for very long. At the moment, we are having success with wrapping the pill in cheddar cheese. This has been working for about a week now. Fingers crossed this lasts, because I'm out of ideas should she tire of this. On a positive note, I will say that the consistency of this product is very easy to work with. It's malleable without being sticky, and very easy to mold around a pill. It also smells delicious - - - like hickory smoked bacon. If only it worked for us . . .

I have been trying everything to get these horse pills in my cat. No clue why manufacturer would create such a large pill but once it is cut in thirds it is almost small enough to get in my cat. He has NOT liked anything I tried earlier. Just got this delivered 30 min ago and my cat easily took the three pieces down without an issue. Even kept bugging me looking for more. This is going to make the next 18 days easier pilling twice a day. Wish I had found three day ago.

Easy and mess free. My cat gobbled his encased tablet and looked for more. Fantastic solution and alternative to blood transfusions from him shredding me!

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

My dog loves this stuff. He is on meds morning and night, he never hesitates to take them. It's nice that you can select how much you need to use.

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 😩

Love this product. Perfect for the purpose