Have you ever gone out of your way to make a dog swallow some kind of medicine, perhaps a tablet or capsule? Me neither, but if those flea ads are correct and to be trusted, the dog will always end up spitting the capsule onto the floor behind the pot plant, and some middle aged woman will stand there hands on hips and shaking her head.

Here's the thing. I think my dad is somehow distantly related to those dogs they use in the commercials. He hates taking tablets. Every Saturday morning, my dad sits at our table next to the window enjoying the sun shining through the window. And every Saturday morning, my mum, worried about my fathers health, decides that he needs to consume a handful of god aweful medicines, herbs or capsules. Needless to say, he is a stubborn one, and doesn't like to be told what to eat. He also really hates those tablets. My mum has to stand there and make sure he actually takes them.

The other week my younger sisters discovered a little pile of medicinal tablets and capsules sitting on the shelf of the cupboard that stands to the left of the table next to the window where my dad sits every Saturday morning to enjoy the sunshine. These happen to be the very same tablets that mum forces dad to take every Saturday.

Coincidence?

No. There would be more chance of my dad winning the bikini section of Miss Teen USA than there is of him actually eating those tablets. And seeing as though mum stands there and watches him eat them, we have since assumed (and had it confirmed from dad himself) that he simply hides the medicine in his mouth, and as soon as mum is gone, he pops the tablets out of his mouth, opens the little cupboard door, and puts the tablets in a neat little pile on the wooden shelf.

My conclusion is that my dad should act in those flea ads as the capsule-hating dog. I think it would be way funnier than any stupid border collie spitting pills in a pot plant. You could probably pay him less too.