My RB dog Sandy was a nightmare, he smelled it in food and wouldn't touch it, I tried cheese and he'd lick the cheese off and leave the pill, (you get the idea)..... I would usually pry his jaw open, put it all the way to the back of his throat (if it didn't go all the way back he'd spit it out), clamped his jaw shut then blew in his face and rubbed his throat muscles with my other hand, which stimulated his need to swallow. I'm lucky he was only 10 pounds, so didn't have the jaw strength Tango probably has, but if you can get the pill to the back of the throat it's fairly easy to get them to swallow. The key is getting it far enough back that they can't spit it out. I have to pill Bear daily and if I don't get the pill far enough back he'll spit it out every time. I don't know if that's possible for you or you might even already have tried it, but thought I'd add my 2 cents..