If you are like most dog owners you have struggled to keep a pill down with your dog. Most pills don’t taste good and dogs get wise to your tricks to the point where it can seem impossible to get the medicine in them. This then becomes extremely stressful to the parents and can take up much trial and error time.
This article contains some really good tips. My favorite of which to to do the 1,2,3 game…. first a treat with no pill, then a treat with the pill, followed quickly by the third treat with no pill. This seems to be the most effective technique I have tried. Simply psyche… hmmm good treat…. followed by “I better eat this one quickly” so I can get to the third treat. Just like kids sometimes you need to trick them… 