aww

As someone currently having to medicate a cat 3 times a day. Dogs are definitely easier.

When my pupper had to have knee surgery, I could pretty much get her to take the pills raw if I had the right level of enthusiasm.

My little black and white ball of fury on the other hand? We've tried pill pockets, crushing the pills into food, treats etc... nothing worked.

To cut a long story short, my kitchen now looks like something out of a drug den. There's a pestle and mortar with this pink antibiotic stain from crushing the pills, the dust of which is poured into boiling water (to dissolve) and allowed to cool; thus allowing me to use a syringe to inject the drugs straight onto his tongue.

Edit: water syringe, not needle

some of them will eat the cheese and then spit out the pill anyway though.

Used to have a big mastiff mix of some sort, easily 100+ pounds, but one of the doofiest most lovable dogs.

We didn't even dress the pills up, we'd just hold them in our hands, pretend to eat a few and then drop it while going, "OOPS! NO DON'T EAT THAT!" and they'd get vacuumed up before he even knew what they were.

My last pup had a liquid medication, twice a day. We had them make it fish flavored. She loved that stuff, it was so easy to squirt it in her mouth with the dosing syringe.

Current pup has 2 pills twice a day. He's mostly deaf but can still hear that bottle open. He's sneaky and will walk away to spit out the pills. He'll refuse pill pockets. He knows all the tricks. I just have to shove the pills down his throat, then watch him eat a treat so I know he didn't cough a pill up into his cheek or beard. Grumpy old man dog.

We had to give our childhood dog shots for diabetes.

He loved it cause he got pigs ears as a treat afterwards.

"Who wants to be shot???" you'd ask, and he start wiggling in delight.

Look at Richie Rich over here, giving cheese and meat twice a day.

PeanutButterPill is the way.

What a happy pup

Until they have to take a suppository 🤡