TOMLYN 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.

Makes pill-taking very easy. I roll up the pills in a ball with this paste, and insert it in her food, in her bowl. She takes the pills without noticing.

My dog is absolutely impossible to take pills, nothing works. She can ferret out a pill in any food. She does, however, possitively gobble up her pill when masked with this product. YAY!

There is no refund? No option to return if the seal isn't broken? I am so disappointed with this because I can't find anywhere that there is a no return policy. I used my reward points for a product I know won't work: I know this because I bought two jars from different companies (both pill-masker) because my cat has hyperthyroid and needs a pill twice a day: a very small pill, but it is traumatizing for both of us when I try to get it in her mouth manually (I have a pill pusher I highly recommend, but it is too much trauma to get her mouth open long enough to pop the pill into her mouth.I opened the other product first as trial to see if I could entice her to eat it. No.I am giving this product one star for customer service and poor policy info: I would not have ordered it had I known i is non-refundable.

Makes giving pills to your pet so much easier. Pill Masker is the consistancy of Play Doh, so it easily molds around any size or shape pills. My poor little dog has to take 11 pills a day, for various health problems. Because Pill Masker smells like bacon she now eats them right out of my hand because she thinks they're treats. Great product that has made my life, and hers, so much easier.

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.