If you've got 3 pills and one is too big for his little throat to gag down and you're administering these 2x a day...
(that's 6 pills total)
Don't cover them in butter (he'll just hide 'em in the corner of his mouth and spit them out somewhere in the corner)
Don't grind them up and put them into his catfood. (He's too wise for that).
The best way to administer the medicine is to pulverize these pills into a very fine white powder, and add just enough liquid vitamin C (flavored for kids) to cover the very bottom bowl of a spoon, mix with a few water droplets, stir until the powder is mostly dissolved, then suck it all up into a syringe/eyedropper thing. Squirt this as quickly as possible down the back of his throat.
The liquid Vitamin C has a fairly palatable aftertaste, so he'll only be mad at you for about five minutes. Even less if the medicine is administered before mealtime and in front of friends. (He loves the sympathetic comments!)
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