By Cassie Panning, CVT Veterinary Information Specialist at Pet Poison Helpline® Giving your pet a medication may be a task that you find unenjoyable, and at times it may be a daunting task. You may have heard the saying about the struggles of giving your cat a pill; in fact, if you have a cat…
By Jo Marshall, CVT Senior Veterinary Information Specialist at Pet Poison Helpline® I don’t think that I am letting out any big secret when I tell you that I work with geeks here at Pet Poison Helpline®. It is true we are all a bunch of geeks! I don’t mean the technology obsessed kind of…
By Pamela Huyck Certified Veterinary Technician at Pet Poison Helpline® Many of the calls we receive here at Pet Poison Helpline® are regarding accidental medication exposures that are easily preventable. While dogs and cats may spit out their own pills they will still often eat human medications. Dogs are especially prone to grabbing pills that…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting horse owners and veterinarians that two lots of compounded combination drug products containing pyrimethamine and toltrazuril, used to treat the neurologic disease Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM), have been associated with adverse events in ten horses. The products were compounded by Wickliffe Pharmacy of Lexington, Ky. One lot…
By: Amanda Poldoski, DVM Staff Veterinarian at Pet Poison Helpline® While spring is coming soon (hopefully!), it is still cold and flu season! This is a friendly reminder to keep your cold and flu medications out of your pet’s reach. Some combination medications can be especially dangerous since one tablet can contain multiple active ingredients. …
