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Any tricks to giving pills?

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Charlee is on several medications right now. One for his skin mites, which is liquid given with a syringe, no problem. He got a dose of Pyrantel, which does something to him that if we feed him anything but dog food, he throws up. I have an antibiotic for his ears which is capsule form and I can't get him to take it. It says to be taken with food, but I think all of these medications is affecting his appetite and he doesn't want to eat. I tried giving it to him with a scrambled egg, but he ate around it and threw up the egg anyway. For a day or so it was working to put the capsule in a piece of cheese. Now he chews up the cheese and spits out the pill. He tried chewing the pill today and it broke apart and the powder came out on the carpet so it was a wasted dose. He doesn't eat treats, pill pockets or peanut butter some I'm at a loss as to what to do. Any suggestions?
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I use Spray cheese for Tucker. I just put a little on my finger, put the pill in the cheese and he eats it right off my finger. Luckily he has a real soft mouth so I don't have to worry about losing any fingers. When we had Jasmine, we nicknamed her the Pirahna because she got a little bit of finger. She did learn and became good with practice, Since she was 17, she tended to need a pharmacy at meal time.
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