Can't get your dog to take pills? Try this

[Grim]

My 10 year old Weimaraner Shadow has an inner ear infection that's fairly serious. He can't move his face and has trouble with balance. He's on some heavy antibiotics for a couple weeks, but for the past few days I had to resort to the good old shove-down-the-throat method. I tried wrapping the pill in cheese, beef, but he'd just eat around the pill and spit it out. All you dog owners are probably familiar with this behaviour. So I devised a way to trick the trickster here which has worked for the two times I've had to give him pills today. He might catch on eventually, but I doubt it.

What I do is divide the cheese or beef into a couple sections, two with half of a pill each in them (Small enough so he doesn't notice). I give the pieces without the pill first. He chews, doesn't find a pill and swallows. When it comes around to the pieces with the pill, he thinks they are "safe" as he's had two pieces that had no pill just before that. Easy as pie

So try it out if you're having sick dog troubles!

[RacerX]

You dog-tricker you!

[tonemonster]

thats pretty clever. now if you can trick some old bastards in a nursing home to take their meds, then you have accomplished somehting.

[RacerX]

Oh, what nursing home are you in, tone? Ar ar

[Twitch]

I do the same thing to my mother in law. Not really, shes cool.

[tonemonster]

Oh, what nursing home are you in, tone? Ar ar

Schoooooo!!!!!!! a direct hit.

[Trem]

My Moms dogs are the same way, she uses peanut butter, they can't resist.

[Carbuff]

I guess my dog is stupid then. Wrap it in cheese and its gone.

[joshulator]

Pet Stores also sell Pill Pockets. It's a soft dog treat with a hole in the middle. Insert the pill and squeeze the opening shut. This has worked perfectly for our dog who won't eat pills.
I did get reverse psychology to work on my dog once. We were out of pill pockets and she wouldn't eat her pill. So I dropped it on the floor, said "Oops" and reached to pick it up. She fell for it and immediately wanted to eat it because she assumed I had accidentally dropped some human food. The whole time she's eating it I'm saying, " No Angel, No!" causing her to only eat it more quickly for fear I was going to take it from her.

[javert]

haha, nice, Joshulator. That might work on my two-year-old son too

[RacerX]

She fell for it and immediately wanted to eat it because she assumed I had accidentally dropped some human food. The whole time she's eating it I'm saying, " No Angel, No!" causing her to only eat it more quickly

I LOL'd here at the office!

[sully]

Pet Stores also sell Pill Pockets. It's a soft dog treat with a hole in the middle. Insert the pill and squeeze the opening shut. This has worked perfectly for our dog who won't eat pills.
I did get reverse psychology to work on my dog once. We were out of pill pockets and she wouldn't eat her pill. So I dropped it on the floor, said "Oops" and reached to pick it up. She fell for it and immediately wanted to eat it because she assumed I had accidentally dropped some human food. The whole time she's eating it I'm saying, " No Angel, No!" causing her to only eat it more quickly for fear I was going to take it from her.

Pill Pockets FTW at Casa de Sully.

[Grim]

Pet Stores also sell Pill Pockets. It's a soft dog treat with a hole in the middle. Insert the pill and squeeze the opening shut. This has worked perfectly for our dog who won't eat pills.
I did get reverse psychology to work on my dog once. We were out of pill pockets and she wouldn't eat her pill. So I dropped it on the floor, said "Oops" and reached to pick it up. She fell for it and immediately wanted to eat it because she assumed I had accidentally dropped some human food. The whole time she's eating it I'm saying, " No Angel, No!" causing her to only eat it more quickly for fear I was going to take it from her.

This bastard is too clever for even those. Spits them right out.

[emperor_black]

are you serious? its that difficult? Just grind the pill into a powder and mix it with the dog's food. Works for kids! My 1 yr old needed to take some medication and we mixed the very bitter pill with honey and fed it to her.

If its a capsule with content on the inside, cut it open with a knife and mix the powder with the dog's food.

[horns666]

Try diversion tactics..like shoving your thumb in his butthole while the pill is in his mouth. It works for most vegeteranians.