Reggie has kidney failure and has been losing weight over the last year or so. My vet said the next step to help him feel a little better and keep him hydrated is to give him fluid injections. We brought him to the vet last night and she showed us how to do it. I put the needle in myself and did it with help holding him, but after a few minutes he got irritated and hissed.
The plan is for me to give him this injection at home 1 or more times per week. It only takes around 2-3 minutes to do it but since it requires him to be somewhat still and calm (aka not irritated) I'm nervous about how to handle that. My wife will be helping so she can help hold him while I do the injection but if he starts getting upset it won't be so easy to finish the injection.
Any tips or advice from anyone on doing injections like this? Anything we can do during the injection to help him? The vet suggested we maybe "scruff" him which she showed just by grabbing the top of his skin by his neck but I'm nervous about freaking him out so much the first time we try this that we won't be able to do it again.
The plan is for me to give him this injection at home 1 or more times per week. It only takes around 2-3 minutes to do it but since it requires him to be somewhat still and calm (aka not irritated) I'm nervous about how to handle that. My wife will be helping so she can help hold him while I do the injection but if he starts getting upset it won't be so easy to finish the injection.
Any tips or advice from anyone on doing injections like this? Anything we can do during the injection to help him? The vet suggested we maybe "scruff" him which she showed just by grabbing the top of his skin by his neck but I'm nervous about freaking him out so much the first time we try this that we won't be able to do it again.