We just found the coolest way to give your dog pills!

It's probably been out for a while, but we don't go to PetSmart very often. It's made by the Greenies people and it's called Pill Pockets. It's a beef/chicken/etc protein thing that is sort of a little cup: you put the pills inside it, squeeze it shut, and give it to the pooch. Very convenient. They recommend using one hand to handle the pills and the other for sealing it so the dog doesn't smell the pill stuff on your hands, but I imagine the beef/chicken smell will override the medicine smell as far as they're concerned.


We've never had much of a problem giving pills to Celeste, we just put a bit of peanut butter on the and she gobbles it down. Recently Russet took her to get her teeth cleaned, and it turned out the poor thing had pneumonia! Fortunately the antibiotics for the first round were meat-flavored, so Celeste gobbled those no problem. But when we took her last week for a followup, she still had shadows, so she's on a second round of pre-dental antibiotics.

We also give Celeste a glucosamine pill twice a day, but for that we just put it with her food and put a dollop of yogurt on top of it. Fortunately, normally, all she needs is that pill with the regular heart worm pill, which is also meat-flavored and instantly devoured by her.