Easiest way for dogs to swallow pills?

**dogzr#1** · 03-25-2006, 12:51 PM

Molly recently got some pills for a rash she had on her back legs. I was wondering if we can continue to use peanut butter to make her swallow her pills. I get a little bit of peanut butter on my finger and but the pill on the PB, then put it on the roof of her mouth so she keeps licking and swallows the pill.

**Karen** · 03-25-2006, 01:05 PM

Whatever gets the pill into her! Our dogs were all adept at eating the peanut butter or cheese and spitting the pill back out. With Gracie (the Great Dane) we ended up with the following routine:

Trap seated dog between your knees.

Pry open mouth with both hands

Toss pill as far back into cavernous mouth as possible

Clamp muzzle shut, holding nose pointed upward

Stroke throat until you know she has swallowed.

It wasn't pretty, or fun, but at least it worked! Any other method, and we'd find the pill a minute later spit out somewhere on the kitchen floor. Sigh.

**Husky_mom** · 03-25-2006, 01:20 PM

i pretty much tossed the pill, but theres this way to get it easyly swallowed, stuff it into a piece of sausage and voila it gets swallowed in no time, you just need an inch of sausage and push the pill in the middle............easy

**Jadapit** · 03-25-2006, 01:21 PM

When Diamond got hurt on the fence, she had to take a huge bottle of pills. I broke off a small piece of hot dog, then I stuffed the pill down it. It worked like a charm.

**dogzr#1** · 03-25-2006, 01:29 PM

thank you for all the different methods! When we first got her pills we put it in a slice of bread. Molly managed somehow to eat everything BUT the pill. silly girl then we tried the peanut butter and it worked like a charm.

the sausage one sounds good too.

**lizbud** · 03-25-2006, 04:36 PM

I usually use Velvetta cheese. It molds easily around the pill. Mine
will wolf it down asap.

**Lady's Human** · 03-25-2006, 04:44 PM

It all depends on how stubborn the dog it. The dog we had before Gracie, Freckles, a St Bernard, could fish a pill out of almost anything. It didn't matter what it was wrapped in, you gave her the pill and 5 minutes later you heard the click click click of the pill rolling across the floor. That's what led to Gracie being given her pills the way she was.

If PB works, keep using it!

**K9soul** · 03-25-2006, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Jadapit

When Diamond got hurt on the fence, she had to take a huge bottle of pills. I broke off a small piece of hot dog, then I stuffed the pill down it. It worked like a charm.

I use the hotdog method to give Tommy his thyroid med twice a day. He doesn't even chew bits of hotdogs like that he inhales them whole so he certainly doesn't know or care that there is a little pill stuffed in there