Quote Originally Posted by KittyGurl

Last Thursday, we took Duke to the vet to get a check up and get his stiches out since he got nuetered.



Well, Duke doesn't take pills in food. We tried peanut butter, mash patatoes and even cream cheese and he won't eat it. He just sniffs the food and walks away. We even tried to mash up the pill and put it in food, but he still won't take it!!!
You need to appeal to his nose. Take some cheese (i.e. not that cheapo Kraft American cheese), and place some in a microwave for a few seconds to partially melt it down. Wait for it to cool down enough so you don't burn yourself working with it. Wrap the warm partially melted cheese around the pill. A .25 inch thickness is plenty around the pill. Between the smell, the grease oozing from the cheese ball, puppy will not walk away. Neither is it going to discover there is a pill inside the small cheese ball. Puppy will swallow it whole and will ask for more. The only time I've seen the cheese ball trick not work is if the dog already has a high temperature and is totally anorexic. Antibiotics do help shorten the duration of Kennel Cough.