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[quote=Anonymous]So my senior dog needs to take a lot of pills every day for arthritis and other quality of life issues. Nothing he has is life threatening and his pain is well managed when he takes his medicine. With his pain management he meets basically every benchmark for quality of life - he enjoys walks, he eats normally, he holds his bladder perfectly well, he sleeps through the night, etc.

The problem is that it is getting harder and harder to get him to take his meds. It used to be I put some peanut butter on the pills and he'd gulp them down. Then he stopped eating peanut butter so I switched to cream cheese, then he stopped eating cream cheese so I switched to cheddar cheese, then he stopped eating any cheese and I switched to deli meat, now he...well you get the picture.

I'm reaching a point where I'm scared I'll run out of foods he will eat and won't be able to give him his meds anymore. He is an absolute expert pill-sniffer so I can't hide it in his regular food. He gets aggressive if I force anything in his mouth, so the "pop it in and shut his mouth" method will work maybe once a day, but after that he'll bite if I put my hand near him and he needs 7 pills a day so that's out. most of the pills he needs are too big to fit in those pill guns. I honestly can't think of any way to get him to take his pills if I run out of food he'll eat a pill in.

I can't stand the thought of having to put a dog down who would otherwise be perfectly fine if they'd just eat their damn pills. Has anyone dealt with this before?[/quote]

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