Musings and stories from life as a small animal emergency veterinarian.
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Emergency Vet Stories was founded in May of 2021 to help share the triumphs, tragedies, stresses, and reality of working as a small animal emergency veterinarian. This site is for everyone – clients, colleagues, and anyone interested in emergency care. Read stories that have grown out of twenty years of practice in the trenches of emergency medicine.
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Over-the-Counter Medications for Pets – Part 2 of 3
This is a continuation of Part 1 which can be found here. Please read that post first. I’m also supposed to tell you that paid links in this post help to support this blog. I also need to buy chocolate, so help a girl out! Anti-histamines When it comes to anti-histamines, you have to be…
Over-the-Counter Medications for Pets – Part 1 of 3
My last post discussed pet medications and how to best communicate with your vet about whatever your pet may be taking, especially in an emergency. I had mentioned that it isn’t a good idea to give an over-the-counter medication for people to your pet without speaking to your vet first. Sometimes your vet WILL tell…
What Medications Does He Take?
Have you ever had this conversation as you’re trying to get a history from a client? “What medications does Rocky take?””Oh he’s just on a vitamin.””Which vitamin is that?””Oh, you know. The one in the brown bottle.””Do you know the name of it?””It’s… Life Gold. Is that a good one?””I have no idea what that…
Please Stop Calling Poison Control
I wanted to elaborate on some thoughts that I put on Twitter earlier this week. First, here is the incident that prompted this: I had an 8-month-old, roughly 30 pound dog come into the ER after she ate a lot of raisins about an hour and a half ago. Raisins are toxic to dogs -…
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