I have pills nailed down. I am ok with pills for the most part - open, toss, close. Its the liquid I HATE. and so do the cats. I begged the vet for the pills - they thoght I was nuts preferring to give pills over liquid. Unfortunately, Allen got REALLY sick on these particular pills and learned to spit them out.

I tried to give him the medicine this morning similar to what you just described. I basically ended up pinning him down. And ended up with pink syrup on my carpet (Oh Jeeeeennnn, I need your carpet cleaner again! )

Sigh. At least no bleeding today.