fatality report: phenobarbitol overdose ATTN: owners with dogs on meds
Dog was on phenobarbitol (penta-?) for seizures. Owner packaged daily doses on dog treats for the dogsitter to administer during vacation. Package was placed high on a counter. The package was not dog-proof. Somehow the dog got into it -- dog reached counter? package knocked onto floor by cat? -- lapsed into coma from overdose and died at the emergency vet hospital.
As with plastic bags, keep meds out of reach of pets and children.
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Permalink Reply by Teresa Gilpin on
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This is a very sad lesson to all of us.
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Permalink Reply by Abbey & Anne on
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How sad.
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Permalink Reply by Melissa and Franklin! on
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We see this often at the vet I work at. Medications don't even need to be pre-packaged into tasty treats for dogs to eat them. We often have dogs come in on emergency for eating their human's medications.
And as a p.s. for the plastic bags, we just had a cavalier who was a young healthy sweet boy suffocate in a cheerios bag a few days ago :-(
Never underestimate your dog's ability to get into trouble.....
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Permalink Reply by rae on
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for pills, the really bitter kinds, any tips on how to get your corgi to take them?
i tried everything...pill pockets, peanut butter, cheese, grinding the pill up and hiding it in peanutbutter or on food. he always found it, fished it out, or flat out refused.
he's fine now and doesn't need them anymore, but when we get him neutered if they give him pain meds i worry he won't be able to take them at all...very stubborn about pills.
super great with eyedrops, though. weird!
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Permalink Reply by Linda on
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Very sad! After having my stumpy Max eat 2 cakes that were on the island I am extremely cautious about where things are. I'm assuming one of the cats knocked the can pans to the floor. I also had one of my corgis get into my purse and take out a small bottle of aspirin and chew on the bottle. And if you have a large breed it's even more worrisome. I had Irish wolfhounds, they can take anything off a counter with all 4 paws on the floor.
You have to think of it like having a child around...kids, dogs and cats can and will get into things you never dreamed of.
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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I had a guest one time drop a pill on the floor also and a dog ate it...had to call the vet and we just had to "watch" the dog .Another concern for me is if you have guest over and their purse is near the floor is that they don't have sugar free gum/candy in them.
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that's something we worry about, making sure guests don't inadvertently give our dog something. we usually have a party every year in november, which is also machete's birthday month...we know he loves people, and people love him.
but we may keep an extra special eye on him or give him one of the upstairs bedrooms during the party.
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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I saw a clever idea once in a (non-dog) magazine where someone actually hung a sign on the dog for the party that said something like "Please don't feed me or I get sick" or something of that nature. Dog walked around for the whole party with the sign on, and it apparently worked.
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Jane...thankfully I can stop my dogs from going for something like a pill dropped on the floor but when it's someone not farmiliar with the dogs that can really be scary. After the incident with the dog taking the pill bottle out of my purse it is now put away where it can't be reached.
Ant traps are another scary thing. Arnie managed to get one off the porch windowsill, I called my vet but he had me call the emergency vets posion control center because they would have the answer faster then he would. They asked the brand and thankfully it was one that the posion was the same stuff that's in the heartworm meds, the bait is peanut butter and not many dogs can resist peanut butter. I had to watch him and delay his heartworm meds for a week. What upset me with them was that they charged me $50 on a credit card before they would even talk to me.
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It was one of my rescues who just snatched it up too fast:( I have to use Taro occasionally and shove it way under the fridge or on my cupboards but I know what you mean...and since my dogs go to work with me we also have to be careful there!
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