I Know There's Something in the Liverwurst

Abby has ceased to be tricked into eating her pills. She has become a super sleuth at finding and avoiding all medicines and supplements in treats and yummy, stinky foods. We are scrambling to match wits with her superior discrimination skills. It only took her a day or so to figure out that they were buried in the wet dog food in her bowl - not touching that stuff again - YUCK! Pill Pockets worked for a few weeks - back when she was gullible. Then on to dog safe brownie treats (made with carob, not toxic-to-dogs chocolate) warmed in the microwave - complete failure. She liked the treats, but the pills were easily avoided. DRAT! Then to stinky, slimy liverwurst... Ah-hah! Success! For about four days or so... Now we're on to hot dogs (kosher, Hebrew National, only the best junky meat products for our Abby) also warmed in the microwave. Resounding success, for...one day... It's so ironic that Sam has readily eaten his pills in all of these sneaky hiding places. But not Abby... So today we tried Kraft Singles - again success. But for how long??

We'll keep trying because it sure beats shoving them down her throat. We've had to do that a number of times and none of us like it. Current thinking is that rotating through the bullpen and mixing up the time of day that she takes her "treats" might be the solution.

Only Abby knows for sure.