Hi fellow dog owners. I am hoping there are vets on this thread that may be able to shed some light here.
My dog is going in for dental surgery tomorrow. And today is a holiday so the vet clinic is closed for me to be able to ask a question.
The vet performing the surgery is a specialist and does not belong to the clinic I take my dog to. She gave me special instructions via an email on the meds I should give him the night before and the morning of.
My clinic filled those prescriptions and as most prescriptions, there was instructions on the bottle. The dose and instructions conflict with what the specialist told me to do.
What would you do in my case? I want to just ignore the instructions the clinic gave and go with what the specialist instructed me to do in her written email to me. I was also planning on informing the clinic techs once I arrive in the morning on exactly what I did and that I did not follow their advice.
The thing is, I’m scared and I don’t want to poison my dog. I trust the instruction of the specialist however her dose recommendation was mg/kg and NOT an exact dose. The clinic gave me exact dose amounts.
The medication is question is trazadone and gabapentin. My dog is a 3kg toy poodle, he’s tiny and therefore I am just scared of over-medicating him. The specialist told me to give 5mg/kg of trazadone and 10mg/kg of gabapentin. The clinic however gave me a 50mg tablet of trazadone and told me to give him half, and gave me 100ml of gabapentin and told me to give him 0.6ml.
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