Reply #20: Hopefully you've gotten your dog used to touching his/her mouth... [View All]

[ariellyn]

I gave my dog pill by calling her, rubbing her and holding her head wayyyy back then dropping the pills to the back of the throat. If you get it to the back of the throat, they can't spit it out. You have to reassure the dog though, hold it, keep its head back until it swallows. It shouldn't be too hard.

If the dog doesn't want to open it's mouth, hold something it likes over its head like you're going to feed it to them. You should be holding them around the neck and be ready to grab the mouth and hold it open when you do this.

Be sure to give a nice pat and an attaboy after givng them the pill and lead them to the water bowl. My dog understands when I say "water"--she drinks.