Dog owners: What food do you hide the pill in?

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If your dog is bad about taking pills? My best results have been with Natchitoches Mini Meat Pies.

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I wrap the pill up in cheese and put it in her mouth and hold her mouth shut until she swallows it. If i don't hold her mouth shut, she'll fish the pill out of her mouth and spit it out and just eat the cheese.

if they're small pills, I'll jam it inside a piece of pup-peroni. our dog is allergic to peanuts (along with most other things) so we have to be a bit more careful with her treats and food.

"Pill Pockets" which can be purchased at Pet Smart and likely any other pet supply store. Awesome product.

Just had to do this and Greenies pill pockets worked perfect.

My biggest failure was a scrambled egg. I crushed the pill into 20 pieces and mixed it in the scramble. The dog took 15 minutes to eat the egg separating out the pill bits.

All are good suggestions, but even putting the pill in a pill pocket or peanut butter sometimes doesn't work unless you hold the mouth shut and run the throat which helps bring on the swallowing. Some things work for some animals and some pills and don't work for others. Depends on the animal and the pill.

Honestly, I've tried everything. Pizza, pot roast, deli meat, cheese, peanut butter, pill pockets, etc. But my dog is a small dog with a small mouth, so she simply eats the real food and spits the pill out.

The only thing that works now is grinding the pill into a powder (just use the flat side of a knife) and mixing it into her food and refusing to feed her again until that bowl is empty (sometimes she eats it all immediately; sometimes it takes 2 days).

She already gets wet food mixed into her dry food, but if you don't already do that, you want to use something wet. They may not devour it right away, but once they're hungry enough, they'll have no choice.

Try the mini meat pies. It worked like a charm:



And you can defrost them as needed.

rat cheese or peanut butter