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Originally Posted by ladyjane  OK....now here is something you need to think about. Are you going to use this one incident to say that no dog should ever be prescribed Doxycycline because one dog might have had a reaction? Or say that it causes liver problems? Because...you might as well say it about all medications. Doxycycline has been used for a long time. It is not like there are dogs all over the place having this same problem...and right now we don't even know for sure that is the problem.
ALL medicines have side effects and I can promise you that at least ONE dog has had a reaction to each medicine in use. You just don't always see them.
Things need to be weighed carefully.
I have no idea if the vet was at fault...I am having a hard time understanding that...but if the vet says so...well I suppose. I just totally don't understand a reaction to a vaccine being a precursor to possible reaction to one antibiotic. Again...maybe I am missing something. Who knows.
Bottom line right now is getting Daisy better...no matter the cause! I am quite sure that if the vet was that forthcoming about blaming the other vet that they will adjust her bill. |
Let's hope the vet adjusts the bill unlike what happened to my friend when derm mixed ketaconazole and ivermectin which is off label thus causing her dog to go into a coma and almost die and she was stuck with a 3,000 bill and yep the derm admitted she made a mistake then pointed the finger at the specialty hospital for causing dog to get pneumonia after suctioning her trachea while sedating her to stop the seizures and NEVER ante up the bill so my friend was stuck with a 3,000 bill for a screw up where the hospital was trying to save the dogs life from the derm screw up but derm never took responsibility of the bill my friend had to so sorry not all of them ante up for the bill and the poor pet owner is left paying the bill and emotionally traumatized from the screw up
Obviously the vet feels it was the drug as they stated it
and yes I will continue to advocate that dogs with liver issues should not have certain drugs or the owner better do some research before putting that drug in that dogs mouth. Obviously that was not Joyce's choice here as she trusted her vet and that they read the file and knew what would be best for Daisy