Pets

Giving medicine to a cat takes some doing sometimes. I usually kind of sneak up from behind, do a kneeling thing on either side to secure the cat while petting. when I'm in position I carefully grasp the sides of their mouth back toward the jaw, slightly open the mouth and then;

if liquid in a dropper, from the side of the mouth near your fingertip, squirt it on to the roof of the mouth about halfway in. One quick squirt and it's over, quick release of kitty with petting.

if a pill, same as above only take pill between index and middle finger tips so that you can slip it into the side of the mouth and push it toward the center-back of the tongue, remove finger, close the mouth and quick release with petting.

It goes by so quickly they aren't quite sure what happened and they just think, "well, that was weird" and think little of it for the first couple days. After that they think it's normal.