Mary Poppins’ “spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” philosophy doesn’t work on our dogs. 

     Our vet can’t get Gavin’s mouth opened.  He tries every year when we take Gavin in for his exam.  Every year Gavin clamps his jaws shut and if our vet tried to use a crow bar, I doubt he’d get in there.

     Therefore, when he prescribed medication for an allergy in pill form for Gavin, I laughed.  Pill this dog?  C’mon Doc you have to be joking.  Actually, our vet knows I can pill Gavin but we do like to joke about it.

     Our female, Patty can spit a pill across a room and into a water dish with the accuracy of William Tell’s apple shot.  Have you ever tried to fish a sopping wet gelatin capsule out of a full water dish?

     I have my own Mary Poppins method, What is my method?  A spoonful of peanut butter makes the pills disappear.