[Dailydrool] giving my dogs pills

[Deborah L Hartpence]

I have had some dogs that will eat whatever the pill is in, then spit out the pill.  Some can be fooled, but not all of them.  Because I got tired of picking up sticky pills off the floor, I have just been shoving it down their throats.  None of them seem really stressed by it, and don't really fight it, since I am rubbing their throat, talking to them, and just paying attention to them  until it is swallowed. I think the human's attitude can do more to stress out the dog.  I just expect them to swallow the pill after I put it in their throat, and they do.  I'm sure that if I so much as hinted that they might fight me, they would do just that, so I don't make a big deal out of it, and they don't either.
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