Realizing owner is about to feed him meds, dog hilariously plays dead

by pawbuzz on in Dogs 44

If you have kids, you know how hard it can be to get them to take their medicine. This problem only becomes worse when the patient is a puppy. This dog does not want to take his medicine. You’ll never guess what he does to get out of it.

Meet Brutus, a sweet but stubborn Rottweiler with arthritis. Brutus is prescribed medication for his arthritis, and he has to take multiple pills each day. As you can imagine, the poor pup absolutely hates it! This dog will do anything to get out of taking his medicine.

Brutus’s loving owner tries hard to get him to take his medicine. He even tries to reward the pup when he swallows all of his pills. “Bud, every time you take your meds we go outside and play,” the owner would coax the dog into consuming the tiny discs.

One day, Brutus’s owner had to get Brutus to take five pills for his arthritis. The dog did not want to comply. Brutus’s owner managed to get all five of the pills into his mouth, but the battle wasn’t over yet. He still had to find a way to get the dog to swallow the pills.

Brutus called on his creativity to get himself out of this tricky situation. In a clever act the dog laid on the floor, playing dead. The pills were sitting on top of his tongue, but Brutus wouldn’t budge. He made sure not to swallow them, holding them in his mouth until he started to drool.

“He just puts them in his mouth and he won’t eat them,” Brutus’s owner explained into the camera. “If I put it in a piece of food, he’ll chew it up and spit it out – he knows. I’ve never seen him do this, though.”

Brutus has many tactics to avoid swallowing the pills. “He’ll stick them in between his teeth and then kind of tilt his head back,” the owner shared. “Most of the time he’ll just eventually swallow them on accident.”

Brutus may hate taking his medicine, but he has come a long way from the situation he was in as a puppy. After an injury in his breeding home, Brutus was unable to walk. His life seemed bleak until he met his current owner.

The dog’s life turned around when he was adopted. According to USA Today, his new family raised money to pay for a corrective surgery on the puppy’s paws. Brutus slowly learned to walk again. Today he is fortunate to live as a normal pup, except for having to take daily medication.

Brutus’s witty attitude throughout this difficult situation has made him an inspiration to anyone who has had a significant setback. This dog has a bright future ahead of him.

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44 thoughts on “Realizing owner is about to feed him meds, dog hilariously plays dead”

  8. Tammy Mack

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    I just open their mouth and pop them in. Pretty much down their throat. Not in a hostile way either. It’s just faster and easier than hiding them. They always find it spit it out and I find it hours later.

  15. Susan Heyde

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    This is so cute. I have had trouble with my dogs and pills too. I don’t know how they manage to separate the pill from the food I wrap it in and spit out the pill.

  23. Kaye Pullen

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    You need to put them as far back in his mouth as you possibly can. That far back, they have no choice but to swallow them. But you’ve probably already tried this and can’t get his mouth open anymore!

  36. Mike Van Ditto

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    What a perceptive dog. Human drugs are the worst thing you could ever give a dog! Vets like to prescribe them because they are in the “pockets” of the pharmaceutical companies. It is all for profit.

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