Any really good tips on how to give a dog pills? Tango's impossible..

[wolfsoul]

I know she can't eat raw, but what about raw tripe? Buffalo tripe in particular is VERY smelly, and the dogs love it! I don't imagine she would know if a pill was crushed up in there.

Another thing you can do is crush it up and mix it with oil -- any kind of oil. I've always had success with dogs, cats, rats, etc. The oil hides the scent.

At the shop we have these things that push pills into a dog's throat or something. I forget what they are called.

[Ginger's Mom]

The only suggestion I have you are not going to like (I don't like it). Ginger will take anything wrapped in cream cheese, so she is easy. But my RB dog would not take a pill for anything. She would stop eating completely if you tried to hide it in food, and the putting it down her throat didn't help either. What the doctor had to do was put the pill down her throat followed quickly by a syringe full of water to force it down before she could dislodge it.
It is not a good solution, and as strange as it sounds I felt better when I had to give her injections, rather than forcing her to take a pill.

[cyber-sibes]

Ugh, Star can also be VERY difficult. What I found that works is to use either: hide it in Cheese-Whiz on a cracker (in just enough so she can eat it all in one bite) and 2) pry her mouth open, shove it in the back, clamp her muzzle shut, and blow on her face - I heard it if you do that dogs have an automatic response to swallow & blink - don't know if that's true, but it works.
I figure cheese-Whiz is probably not really good for her, but it gets the pill down.