After giving your dog pills. Do you give them water?

I usually give our dogs their pills in homemade sausage chunks or pieces of American cheese. The other day our Pit Bull would have nothing to do with either. Time for force. I figured I'd get him in a choke hold, force his mouth open and drive the pill down his throat. Good plan. I got him in a choke hold........... So much for plan................ Later in the day when he was feeling better he ate the piece of sausage with the pill in it... FWIW...