The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for April 12, 2023

You want to bet on that.

Then I hold Koko down and force the pill into his mouth and stroke his throat until he swallows. Been there, done that.

I read of a dog who refused to take the pull, yet when his dad gave up and left the pill lying on the table, he sniffed it and ate it.

The pharmaceutical companies need to add flavours to animal medications. :)

Better idea is to stuff pill into something steenky that be by the sidewalks. Doggies likes to gobbles steeky things.

I crush it into powder and sprinkle on food.

I’ve said it before put it in Braunschweiger, problem solved. Nice and stinky (see Gent’s comment).

Koko’s stroke of genius.

Happens every time.

We gave our dog her arthritis pill stuffed inside a bit of peanut butter sandwich. She would gobble down the morsel in about half a second and then spit out a totally clean pill. So I’d break off another bit of sandwich and put the pill inside. She’d gobble and spit out a clean pill. This would repeat until the sandwich was gone. She seemed to know when I gave her the last bit of sandwich because she never spit out the pill after she ate the last bit of bread and peanut butter.

That’s inconceivable!

I once gave our Golden Retriever a pill, pushed it down her throat, did the throat rub, the checked her mouth. No sign of the pill. A few minutes later, she spit it out. Have no idea how she did that.

Guess I’m either lucky or my dog is easy to fool. I wrap her pills up in a meatball of wet dog food and down it goes.

Thanks Adrian, very funny, good laugh but I had to look carefully in last frame, subtle…

KOKO is no fool …….. should have given it in a meatball, with 3 or 4 meatballs so you could fool him with the pill one …… it might work …… :)

She’s a dreaming. That’s why I use baby food to help the medicine go down. It’s like sugar for a human. yip yip yip yip yip

My dog is such a chow hound that any pill in any food is just gulped down. No chewing. LOL Makes pill giving easy. My cat….now that is a different story.

Vicki looks absolutely diabolical in panel two! :)

Decades ago, I bought a lovely little green marble mortar and pestle. Originally, it was just used as a decoration. Once I had to start giving medication to dogs, I found that it does a great job of grinding up pills extra fine. It makes no sense to try to fool a dog by putting the pill in a pocket of food, or to stress him out by trying to force it down his throat. My way is much easier and more humane.

Koko was a cat in his previous life.

True story.