OMG did you know you mustn't give your dog calpol?

[CountessDracula]

or nurofen

Our poor pup has had a tumour removed today and is whimpering with pain (she is a wuss at the best of times and terrible when she is in pain)

i said to dh oh I htink i'll give her some calpol

Looked it up on the web and it can kill them

phew

Yes, cats' and dogs' livers can't process the paracetamol. Or aspirin. I think they can have lidocain, though, can't remember what my cat had last time.

but she can have aspirin 75mg (our vet told us to give it to our dog when she was neutered)

oh ok
she is 45kg - may need more or less depending on the size of your dog I guess

I was shocked when I asked the vet about this.
The dogs's anti-inflammatory tablets are quite expensive so i asked about nurofen and he said it would kill her .

Thanks so much
I have found a chart that says she can have 480 mg

typical
she has settled now

I will wait and see if she is ok during the night

Ye gods! Hope she feels better soon, poor love. Ripley sends a consoling lick

ahh thanks Ripley [woof]

This is one of the arguments used by anti - vivisectionists. If penicillin had been tested on cats it would never have made it to becoming a medicine as it kills them.

Oh is aspirin only poisonous to cats then? I'm sure we had to buy some expensive analgesic preapration when we ahd our dog because she couldn't have aspirin. Probably a sales ploy by the vet.

I'm sure it's poisonous to lots of animals but it's the cats thing that i read about.

phew, lucky that you looked it up first. I know somebody that gave her nieces medicine to her cat and the cat was dead within 2 days.

I have had dogs for 16 years and never once contemplated giving them human painkillers. However have given my old dog human "fusimide" as the ingrdients on the paqcket were identical the the doggie version. Shocked about the fact this can kill a dog! Very useful info.