Her Pickyness

oh beautiful Sol…smart, stubborn, sweet, simply beautiful Sol. My girl Reese was just as smart with the medicine.  I hid it in cream cheese, peanut butter, deli meats, she simply would either lick around the food products and drop the pill or not take it at all…I don’t envy you that task.  Look at her, she is absolutely the sweetest thing ever!  I love you all!

We use vanilla ice cream to hide pills for our girls. We feed our pugs Blue Buffalo brand dog food. There are no fillers in it and it even has glucosamine (sp?) in it to help with their hips. You can find it at Petsmart.

Hahahaha!! You have a little diva on your hands!

Sol, you beautiful girl, don’t ever stop being you

For being such renowned eating enthusiasts, pugs (mine anyway) was really tough to get pills down and just ramming them down her throat got her so upset (I did it as gently and kindly as possible.) that she usually puked it up anyway.  The lunch meat would work sometimes - sometimes not and my list grew as long as yours.  Bella has allergies and takes pills for that during the season as well as antibiotics for periodic bladder infections (no kidney stones, thank heavens!)
Anyway - my vet carries these “pill pockets” which are very soft and have a meaty smell.  I get the larger ones and tear them in half to wrap around one pill.  Bella watches me put the pill in the pocket and when I hand it to her, I say:  “Time to take your pill.”  and she never waivers.  It just slides right down her throat like a good little patient.  It’s soooo much more pleasant for us both!

My girls(a puggie & a boston) get dry food-if they need pills I may have to resort to getting a blow gun and blowing the pills in! You may want to consider that as an option with her majesty-Queen SOL the First(And too cute for words!). Our first Boston had a finicky tummy-and was not much on pills either so her vet had us serve cooked ground beef and steamed rice-she did well with that! From the Colorado 3

OK Sol, you know you are one much loved Puggie. EAT!!! GiGi is on Nutro Max canned and loves the chicken. For a treat she loves spoons of spinach.
We all love and enjoying seeing you each day.
Grannie Pug, GiGi and Gwen
PS Maybe you are like some of us older humans, food can wait, naps cannot.

I work in a kennel and have to deal with picky eaters and dogs with allergies often. You could try cottage cheese, yogurt, and baby food (if you need to steer clear of chicken try turkey or beef) for the pills. Most dogs will eat all or any of these. Good luck your beautiful baby!

The “pill pockets” that Mary mentions might be Greenies brand pill pockets.  They come in chicken and in salmon flavors.  You can actually buy them at Petsmart.  I was using them with one of my cats for awhile who needed to take meds every day. (I have found cats notoriously difficult to pill.)  That lasted for a good month, but then he just turned up his nose and left the pocket on his plate.  Luckily, Ellie, who also must take meds every day, is easy to pill—peanut butter or soft cheddar cheese does the trick every time.

I’m picky too Sol!!! My fiance gets pretty annoyed but he is patient with me like your momma

All hail the Queen of Picky!  I humble myself at your feet, Majestic Sol!!  (And also at C.J. and Toeby’s). 
I use cheese sticks and hide their monthly pills in a piece.  They usually gobble the cheese down and don’t even notice there is a pill inside.

And by the way, Solsey, there is nothing wrong with holding out for what you truly love!  Time is too short to settle for anything less!

And I thought my guys were stubborn! There was a while I was buying 2 different kinds of cat food because one was super picky and now they are both eating cheap stuff since the picky one was starving herself and they were both underweight. Friggin kids.. i mean animals lol.

Gus and Indy love almost everything except for lettuce and Indy doesn’t like dried cranberries which we gave her for her uti.

Good luck, have you tried marshmellows? the mini ones?

All my pugs eat the natural balance food rolls, like Ann’s pugs.  Except for my old one, she is very very picky also.  We had to put her on babyfood, yogurt and cottage cheese for awhile and just now getting her back on canned food.  What a chore!!!! Likes one one day, but not the next.  She takes 6 pills twice a day, in creme cheese!!!  Has for a year now.  As long as she doesn’t feel the pill as she will spit the whole creme cheese ball out!!!  She was a rescue and very old and her teeth are rotten, and I mean rotten.  So canned food is her only option. She still gets yogurt every day, as that is her favorite food in the world.  Good luck with Sol.

I love Greenies Pill Pockets.  The ingredients aren’t the best, but they smell horrendous (a plus for picky dogs) and get the job done.

You might also try cut up hot dogs. That usually works like a charm.