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Message Subject Saving pets without a permit: Good Samaritan arrested after helping animals survive Florence
Poster Handle White Wolf Waking
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Well that is pretty much insane. If the owners drop off their pets then there should be some common idea of a "shelter" for them. Permit or not.


As for the meds. Sometimes situations get to the point where you as an owner (or someone in charge of the welfare of those pets need to make a decision, for the good of the animal). I've had a dog (with other medical conditions react badly to antibiotics) but its so rare that in an emergency situation it shouldn't really be taken into account.

Vets trust owners to practically BE vets. Everything from bandaging wounds and taking care of sprains and infections in horses. To a seizing diabetic dog (is it a seizure, low blood sugar? try getting a blood test on your own with a dog that is seizing). Or giving under the skin IV's to a cat with kidney problems. I never had training but I could adjust the dog's insulin level better than the vet could. It got to the point I was contacting the vet to tell them numbers and what I changed (to keep the record correct). My dog lived for years, I had to eventually put her down because of cancer. Never had any proper "training".

As far as I'm concerned those owners released their pets to someone who was going to take care of them. That person did their best to take care of them (in a situation where they would have died without that person) and they were arrested for it. wtf?

The only other thing I could see that person doing was to consult over the phone with a vet before administrating medication. But most vets likely would not give that advice over the phone, in any situation. Never mind that this situation was an emergency and they could not be brought to ANY vet.
 Quoting: Raisty

Wow, if only all people were like you.
So true that pets families can know more than a vet. I diagnosed my dogs adenovirus and I dose her potassium and sodium based on how her heart sounds. The er vet just prescribed her a beta blocker without even checking electrolytes.

By the way, I've found that many viruses mess up sodium and/or potassium, in humans and pets alike. And if you give one, you also have to give some of the other or you will create an imbalance, something else her vet didn't warn me about. He only prescribed potassium which is why I had to figure things out myself.
 
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