Bolivian_Box
Boxer Pal
Hey everyone --
We made a terrible mistake yesterday! And I wanted to quickly pass it along because it might save you some heartache.
Our little Oscar (5 month old, perfect fawn) has had a terrible cold, sneezing, coughing, runny nose.
We called our vet and they couldn't see us right away. So--not thinking -- we gave Oscar one half of a Tylenol Cold tablet -- figuring it was a half-dose and it would treat his symptoms.
BE WARNED TYLENOL can be fatal to dogs and cats --
Luckily it needs to be a much higher dose around 3500 milligrams to be toxic -- but smaller doses of Tylenol can damage a dogs liver (and kill a cat).
We were idiots!
Meanwhile, we always read threads on this board about what to feed and what not to feed. [I learned previously that Boxers can't eat chocolate, grapes and cannot be tranquilized BUT never had I read about Tylenol. In fact, I remember reading somewhere that dogs can be given children's aspirin--so that's where our mistake was made.)
Oscar's little face swelled up terribly. We rushes him to the vet and he was given a shot of steroids to reduce swelling. Luckily he said that the dose that we gave Oscar wasn't enough to hurt him.
BUT
Lesson learned is that we should never, ever give our pooches any kind of medicine that isn't prescribed by the Vet.
Hope this helps.
We made a terrible mistake yesterday! And I wanted to quickly pass it along because it might save you some heartache.
Our little Oscar (5 month old, perfect fawn) has had a terrible cold, sneezing, coughing, runny nose.
We called our vet and they couldn't see us right away. So--not thinking -- we gave Oscar one half of a Tylenol Cold tablet -- figuring it was a half-dose and it would treat his symptoms.
BE WARNED TYLENOL can be fatal to dogs and cats --
Luckily it needs to be a much higher dose around 3500 milligrams to be toxic -- but smaller doses of Tylenol can damage a dogs liver (and kill a cat).
We were idiots!
Meanwhile, we always read threads on this board about what to feed and what not to feed. [I learned previously that Boxers can't eat chocolate, grapes and cannot be tranquilized BUT never had I read about Tylenol. In fact, I remember reading somewhere that dogs can be given children's aspirin--so that's where our mistake was made.)
Oscar's little face swelled up terribly. We rushes him to the vet and he was given a shot of steroids to reduce swelling. Luckily he said that the dose that we gave Oscar wasn't enough to hurt him.
BUT
Lesson learned is that we should never, ever give our pooches any kind of medicine that isn't prescribed by the Vet.
Hope this helps.
