blackxrose said:
Sadie does the same thing. I have to use my fingers to check inside her jowels. :? Have you tried feeding the pills with treats or some other positive reinforcement? Is there any way you could disolve them in milk or something and deliver them through that method?
nope I've tried hiding them in his food (he eats around it leaving a tablet on a little pillar of meat), crushing them into a fine powder and mixing it through his food (when he takes a bite he doesn't like he runs away from his bowl and won't eat it at all), same with paste he can smell it in milk I guess.
I took a more no-nonsense approach.
Only thing that works is to take him by surprise, wrap his arms and legs in a teatowel like a straight-jacket, open his mouth, chuck 'em down the back so he hopefully gags, and then check to see if he swallowed them. He doesn't particularly like it, but I'm getting so I can go from grabbing him to finished in under a minute, and once I let him go he just calmly climbs off my lap and sits down next to me so I think he just dislikes the swallowing part.