When you need to give a dog a pill, you can wrap it up in just about anything tasty. Dogs find a lot of things to be tasty as long as they are not green vegetables. Shoot, they like to eat, and also roll on, dead things.

The dog will eat the tasty thing and the pill along with it without complaint. Then the dog will likely look at you and “say” something like, “That was tasty, but not nearly enough. Could I please have some more?” The look will be almost impossible to ignore.

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When you need to give a cat a pill, you can try wrapping it up in something tasty. Finding that perfectly tasty thing can be difficult. But let’s say you do find something tasty that you are sure your cat will eat and you decide to give it a try. It will probably go something like this:

1. Try very hard to convince the cat she should just eat the damn thing. Right now. Right here. While you are watching to make sure she actually gets the medicine.
2. Failing that, try very hard to pry the cat’s mouth open and shove the tasty thing along with the pill into her mouth.
3. Wait expectantly.

If she does decide to eat the tasty thing in her mouth, rejoice. But continue to watch carefully.

It is very likely that the cat will somehow manage to eat the tasty thing and then spit out the pill. She will then probably give you a look that says something like, “Do not ever try that trick again or dire things will result.”

Or you can simply go straight to the prying open of the mouth and the inserting of the pill and then the holding of the mouth closed until you feel her swallow. Once you release her mouth, pray that she actually did swallow the pill and that you don’t have to do that all over again.

You will still probably get the “look,” but at least you got the job done. Hopefully without being scratched or bitten.

Note:  Any time you can opt for a trans-dermal medication, do. Of course, then you have to hope that your cat doesn’t mind having her ears messed with.

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