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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Michigan State is telling you this?
I wouldn't be too happy with them. Not giving pain meds (or limiting them) is old fashioned for the most part. The two reasons you shouldn't give it are if your dog had a c-section and has to nurse or if they have a health issue and the meds would hurt them. There are studies showing that dogs heal faster with less pain. Any pain is too much. Yes, I understand that dogs don't know that they are supposed to relax but that is no reason to force them to be in pain. Pain meds can make them sleepy which is a good thing. I know some vets don't give them after spays. Any vet who cuts a dog's abdomen open and then says they don't need pain meds should have to get their abdomen cut open and see how it feels.
If your baby needs those meds, demand them. |
My regular vet is great, she gave lily a weeks worth of pain meds after her spay. This doc at MSU is world renowned and wrote most of the text books on the issue or so I am told. So when she said she would only give Lily a few days of pain meds I was not sure what to think. She is an older doc. so mabe she just has some old fashioned thoughts. We will see, if I have a problem I will call my local vet, I do not want lily is to much pain.