Liver... Its gross and it smells weird when you cook it, but my girls LOVE it. They would die for liver -- chicken, beef, they don't care... It's soft enough that you can embed pills into it and stinky enough to cover up the medicine smell. Careful though, if you give too much initially, your pup could get diarrhea from the fat content if they're not use to eating it.

well if anyone has any ideas on that topic that work I would love to hear it too.I have been giving Coops meds to him the hard way twice a day for several months now. Poke all of em as far down as I can get em then hold his mouth shut and stroke his throat until he swallows. Sometimes he fakes me out and "swallows" and I find him wearing his meds on his chest, but I have gotten pretty good at knowing when they are gone for real. Immediately after he swallows everything, he gets a real treat. Sorry  I dont have an answer for you, if you find a good one Please let me know.

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I use soft dog treats. I cut them in 1/2, squish the pill into the center and then squeeze it back together...a little medicine sandwich. He usually swallows them whole.

We have used everything with Zip. Right now she is off the Bill-Jac but usually she will return to that after the yucky taste her chemo gives her for a few days. We give lots of pills here at our house with up to ten dogs some days [visitors, not residents] sometimes its pill pockets, sometimes peanut butter, put the pills on the backside of the pb, we also keep the pills in the refrigerator so the smell is not too noticeable. We have tried hot dogs, string cheese,ice cream [yes, you must be quick, the first bites are free and then when mouths are cold, in goes the pills] cheese whiz, cooked meat, hard-boiled eggs but most   of the time first bites are tiny but pill free and then we increase speed to distract and for some of the dogs we use other begging dogs to 'encourage' them.  Maybe I should write a book 'Pill-popping 4Paws or Less'.. FDA probably would come to see me! Good luck and remember, what works one day might not work the next!

Wow, these are all great ideas!  I might have to resort to them but for now liver sausage is working.  We've used Velveeta too.  But Tate was like Sadie, nothing worked with Tramadol after it started bothering him.  In his case, not even pill pockets.  We did the Coopsdad method but Tate would just hold it in his mouth and stare at me and refuse to swallow, "I am NOT putting this %&$^ in my body, Mom."  Luckily, we were about done with it when it got to that point.

I'm going to try making my own pill pockets this week, inspired by a recipe I saw online. Going to take freeze-dried chicken treats (you can get them at the pet store) and grind them to powder in the blender, then add a bit of flour, water, boullion, and oil in a saucepan over the stove to make something with a texture like play-doh. Supposedly one batch with 1/4c of ground chicken will make about 30 pockets that you can keep in the fridge.

If it works, I'll post pics and a recipe 🙂