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Quirky Folk - April 2008

Giving Human Medications to Animals

April 3rd 2008 21:00

Photo by Elembis. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

I cannot believe how some people can be so stupid. There was a story in the April 2008 issue of Cat Fancy about how giving human medications to a cat is a big no-no as medications such as aspirin can cause kidney and liver damage. Like, der! It’s just commonsense. Just because a certain medication works on us doesn’t mean it would work on a pet. And even if you could give your cat or dog human medications, how would you know what dosage and frequency? In the case of a cat, it may be a fraction of the human dosage but what if you had a horse? How many tablets would you give it? It all sounds very scary to me, even though my neighbour gives her cats Ural when they have urinary tract infections. She swears that it works just as well on cats as it does humans.

This reminds me of a tutorial exercise one of my tutors gave my class when I was studying journalism. We had to edit a story a student had written about how chocolate can kill dogs. It had the class in giggles. It sounded cute at the time but once I read the story, it made me realise what is okay for humans to ingest isn’t necessarily okay for an animal and vice versa. How else do you explain cat and dog food? Okay that was a bad joke…

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