[navillusc]

I hate to tell you to be sneaky with liquid dosing, but I have had to at times...even with skin kids. I have put the dose in a syringe and then squirt it all at once as far back as possible, then hold the head a bit upward and stroke under the chin. Be ready to do this quickly...get everything put together a bit ahead and wait and watch for the opportunity. Come from behind with your baby looking the other way, if you're right-handed use your left to hold his head and the right to administer the dose. Learned this trick on my oldest skin kid after wearing a lot of phenobarbitol but found it works with animals, too.

Also, I have sometimes had to wait for the dose until the animal falls asleep (cats don't like bubblegum flavored Clavamox...lol) , then put the syringe tip under the cheek toward the back as far back as possible without waking him, depress the plunger...the animal will most likely wake up immediately, and lift its head toward the side you put it in and maybe open its mouth, so be ready to close it so the dose doesn't just run straight through the other side...have some toweling handy...lol...you'd want to be ready to steady it, keep the mouth closed and the head lifted for a few seconds until the swallowing is completed.

Also, if the medicine will freeze, you can then break it into pieces, coat each in a smidgen of peanut butter or wrap it in a hunk of butter...whichever your pet likes...cats don't seem to care for peanut butter...lol...and give every other piece as a treat, first a frozen bit with nothing in it 'cuz they might be skeptical of the first one, then meds...which if they taste it, might make them skeptical of the 3rd, etc. Did this trick with a tablet, too, using p-butter for a Chi with a pill flea protection. My bigger dogs would catch their meds 'cuz I'd make a pill-pocket out of and wrap them in butter, hype the dog up for the treat and give it a flick into the air. No pill ever hit the floor at my house...lol

Whatever you do, do not make a 'production' of it. The 'sneaking' of a much needed med into your baby will be defeated if the animal has a clue, and one thing that all the animals and kids I've had to do this kind of stuff to have taught me is they have more than one clue! lol

Good luck...sorry he needs meds in the first place...poor baby.