How To Give Your Dog a Pill

  • December 4, 2007
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Being your dog’s best friend means getting her to take her medicine when she needs it. Here are a few tricks to help the medicine go down!

You Will Need

  • A pooch in need of a pill
  • Dog pills
  • And some dog treats
  • A helper (optional)
  • A small amount of cheese, cream cheese, or peanut butter (optional)
  • Some sugar water (optional)
  • An infant medicine syringe (optional)
  • And a canine pill gun (optional)
How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Make dog sit

Step 1: Make dog sit

Make your dog sit.

Never call a dog to you in order to give her medicine. You don’t want her to associate being called with being dosed! Always seek her out yourself.

How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Pry open mouth

Step 2: Pry open mouth

Use one hand to pry your dog’s mouth open. With your other hand, pop the pill way back into her mouth. Make sure the pill goes behind the back of her tongue.

A second person to help may come in handy if your dog is especially large or wriggly.

How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Hold mouth closed

Step 3: Hold mouth closed

With one hand, hold the dog’s mouth closed, snout pointing up, while gently rubbing her throat with your other hand.

How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Wait for swallow

Step 4: Wait for swallow

Once the dog swallows and licks her lips, you can be sure that the pill is safely down.

Stay nearby until you know the pill’s been swallowed. Plenty of dogs are adept at concealing their meds and spitting them out later.

How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Check with vet

Step 5: Check with vet

If you’re having difficulty, check with your vet to see if it’s safe to give your dog a pill concealed in food and, if so, try hiding the medicine in something soft like cheese, cream cheese, or peanut butter. Let the dog lick your fingers after you feed her the pill—that will ensure she swallows.

Be sure to tell your vet what food you might try—some foods interact badly with certain medications.

How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Crush pill

Step 6: Crush pill

If your dog doesn’t fall for the pill-in-the-food trick, crush the pill, mix it with a little sugar water, and use a baby syringe to squirt the liquid into the dog’s mouth.

How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Try pill gun

Step 7: Try pill gun

Still not working? Try a pill gun (available from your vet or local pet store) to propel the pill down the dog’s throat.

How To Give Your Dog a Pill: Give a treat

Step 8: Give a treat

When the pill is all gone, praise your dog, pat her, and give her a nice treat to take away the taste!

Blowing on a dog’s nose will encourage it to swallow.

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