Original videos will be coming, but for the moment here are embedded YouTube videos demonstrating techniques to help you help your adult rat take medicine from a syringe.
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This sweet rat is very agreeable about her syringe medicine. It's obviously tasty to her, and her human first bribes her with a treat to hold her attention. Not all medicines are this easy to give. You can teach your rat that syringes are their friends by giving them tasty non-medicine foods by syringe before they ever need real medicine. After they learn that syringes have good things in them, you may have an easier time with giving medicine mixed in with good foods.



You might think you "have to scruff" your rat - but please do not unless all else fails. Spend lots of time mixing yummy foods with the medicine and trying that way. You might even be pleasantly surprised like this human was - here's what he said about Slugo and his meds: "At first Slugo rat had to be scruffed to give him medicine. But after getting scratched up by an older, larger rat, I had to figure out a way to give Slugo rat medicine without hurting his wounds. I was suprised when I simply offered him the syringe and he started lapping up the medicine."



Abilene is a little resistant, but his human has a very quick technique and is careful to squirt the medicine in the back of the mouth and behind the teeth. Short quick squirts, with rest times inbetween, then Abilene gets a treat at the end.