Before you leave the vet’s office, always make sure you’ve got the medication instructions sorted out. Unless you’d like an awkward phone conversation like this one, that is.
“Not a vet tech anymore but we had this one guy who brought his dog in for the usual stuff. The dog was loaded with fleas so we kept the dog for a few hours to give it one dose of capstar, a pill designed to help kill fleas, a bath and all that good stuff. The Dr had prescribed a couple more capstars to be sent home. Guy picks up his dog later and goes home.
Next day I get a phone call from the same guy. He’s telling me he’s having a hard time giving the dog the pill. He kept saying, ‘It just keeps coming back out, which I thought was an odd way of saying the dog is spitting it out. I told him to try some cheese or wet dog food, whatever will get his dog to take it. He then gets a bit quiet on the phone. I thought it had to be put up his butt…’ We both laughed.”
Why would anyone think that a pill was meant to be taken like that?
Makes you wonder: How has this guy been taking Tylenol his entire life?
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