For our recent adoption, who was (and still is) extremely skittish by nuture or nature, we were given two pills to give her a day (and two more medications to mix into her food!). Stressful! She was already terrified! Trying to pill her the way I was used to just led to both of us being nervous wrecks. I found that the way that worked best for us was to invest in Pill Pocket treats, and stick them on top of her canned food at meal time. Took the stress off everyone and she got her meds.

Unfortunately, this didn’t work as well for our other cat, who I’m still trying to transition to canned/raw foods. If it doesn’t crunch, he wants nothing to do with it. The pills we had to give him were tiny, so we used a piece of the pill pockets and “glued” the pill to one of his crunchy treats. Then we’d feed him some of the crunchy ones, the pilled one, and then some other crunchy ones. It usually worked, but sometimes he caught us and spit out the pilled treat.