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Image 1 — Okay r/DogAdvice. I need your most creative, fool proof, and tried and tested methods for getting your dog to take their medication.
Image 2 — Okay r/DogAdvice. I need your most creative, fool proof, and tried and tested methods for getting your dog to take their medication.
Image 3 — Okay r/DogAdvice. I need your most creative, fool proof, and tried and tested methods for getting your dog to take their medication.
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Okay r/DogAdvice. I need your most creative, fool proof, and tried and tested methods for getting your dog to take their medication.

Meet Chloe, a three year old Shepard husky mix who I am waging medical warfare on. I have to give her multiple pills a day for the time being and we have a long history of not taking our medication. I've tried many methods in the past to make her take her meds:

  • pillpockets (wouldn't eat)
  • pills hidden in cheese or meat (ate around pills or wouldn't eat)
  • pills crushed up and hidden in food (current method. She is starting to figure out what food has been tampered with and avoid it)
  • prying mouth open, shoving in pill, and massaging throat (we've had 30 min long stand offs where she pretends to swallow but doesn't actually)
  • dropping pills accidently or on purpose (doesn't matter, result is an abandoned pill)

Next will be buying wet dog food and mixing crushed pills into that in a place she can't watch me open pills. After that, I think everything will have to be crushed, mixed in water, and given via syringe.

With nothing to loose I humbly ask for your best and worst medication tips, tricks, and horror stories. Schadenfreude, gloating, solidarity, and reminiscing are all welcome.

u/Adventurous-Blubry — 10 days ago