SUPER GLAD HE"S FEELING BETTER!
for future reference you could try a small dab of penut butter on pill, and stick pill with penut butter on roof of his mouth next time..usually in our house pill goes bye bye (when a dog is being difficult with medication).
If the penut butter dosent work. A peice of cheese smooshed around it very very tightly...and shoved to the back of the throat (almost gagging point) usually does the trick..because they try to hack it back up...taste the cheese and go..OH..CHEESE..and then swallow.
Not fool proof. But we've got "I DONT WANT THAT YUCKY PILL " dogs ..so.
I"ve learned a few tricks.
worked for a kennel a few years back and a vet taught me the shove it in, hold mouth shut, and rub nose with finger trick. (sometimes that works). But more often than not , i've found that just stressed the dog, because they dont like having thier mouth held shut.