I knew it was too good to be true

It took Hank three servings of antibiotics on top of his food to decide he didn't want to play that game anymore. 

No problem. I was prepared to go back to my syringe-full of medicine method, newly improved and perfected 

thanks to the very smart readers who commented on this post. Forget everything I said and did then, 

because the following method trumps that and then some.

My new technique is similar, minus the coffee grinder, the applesauce, the cheese spreader, 

and the great big stinkin' mess I made all over my kitchen.

The champagne flute wouldn't even be necessary were I not trying to photograph the process.

I cut the tip off the syringe and widened the opening to about a half inch - big enough to drop in the pills.

I pour in just enough room-temperature water to cover the pills.

...then I stick my finger over the hole and shake the syringe until the pills stop rattling - about 10 seconds is all it takes.

Using the least amount of water possible seems to be the best approach.

The thicker the mixture, the better, so it doesn't spill out of the syringe on the way to the barn
or out of the horse's mouth once you squirt it in.

Then I squirt in a little molasses. It sort of looks like Bosco, don't you think? 

Please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers Bosco.

Where would I be without my chopstick? It's the perfect tool for stirring molasses 

into dissolved pill paste through the top of a cut-off syringe.

With my coffee grinder/applesauce method, I would end up with a full syringe of stuff that was difficult 

to administer in one squirt because my finger-span isn't big enough reach the bottom of the plunger when the syringe is full. 

With this method, there's less stuff and no muss or fuss.

Hank is doing fine, by the way. The swellings on his lower abdomen are barely there, though they seem to have relocated 

to his chest area. Our vet is not convinced we're dealing with dryland distemper/pigeon fever. We'll re-evaluate once the antibiotics run out.