day......grr again.....350

 Our dog can be a pain in the butt

    Yes, she is spoiled.  Yes, she is treated like a queen.  Yes, she has us trained.

    But she can be so damn infuriating!

    Corki gets a heartworm medication monthly.  Usually on the first of the month, but when we both forget, then the 20th of the month.  The plan is to give her next month's around the 13th....the following around the 6th.....and then we will be on track.

    These are chewable tablets, a little bigger than a small Tootsie Roll.

    Underestand, this is a dog that eats ANYTHING that falls on the floor, or that gets fed to her by a certain lady of the house off her dinner plate when I am not looking.  And I mean ANYTHING...napkins, tissue, amputated body parts.

    ANYTHING....except the chewable heartworm medication.

    So I cut it up and hide it in food.   For months, she ate it with the peanut butter.  For months she ate it with cheese.  For months she would eat it in cleverly disguised forms.

    Then today came.

    Wrapped it in American cheese......she sucked off the cheese and spit out the pill part.

    Put peanut butter on it.....licked off the peanut butter and left the pill.

    Wrapped it in a Pill Pocket....she sniffed it and stuck up her nose.  She does not like pill pockets.

    Drizzled honey over it.....she licked off the honey and left the pill.  (Mary Poppins was wrong because a spoonful of honey does not make the medicene go down.)

    Tried putting it together with a doggie sausage roll and she put the whole thing in her mouth and after a minute.....out came the pill part.

    Mixed it with broiled hamburger, broke up the hamburger, took the pill and crushed it, mixed it in with the hamburger and she ate the damn hamburger and left much of the pill behind.

    I have tried putting it in her mouth and holding her mouth......but since the tablet is large, I am afraid of her choking, so I put in a quarter and she will hold it forever in her mouth and then spit it out.

    I honestly don't know what to do.  

    Maybe the vet has a smaller pill, or a bacon flavored one.  

    I ended up taking whatever was left and sprinking it over the top of her dinner tonight.  It is not the most effective way, but I think when all was said and done, she probably got 90 percent of the dose.

    But it took a loooong time for that to happen.

    I hate to admit it, but she is smarter than us.

    Stay safe.  Stay healthy.  Get out that snow shovel.

Peace and Love