catalunya199again

my dog has what looks like a small cut between his toes can i use an anti septic cream on him or will it kill him something like savlon or germolene i have cleaned it with a baby wipe but want to make sure it dont get infected

ajm

I think they would be ok although there could be a chance of a bad reaction. I would be safe and stick to basic antiseptics like hydrogen peroxide, or simply saline solution.

Better still ask your vet!

David Lock

NOT a vet but I am sure the answer is yes as most drugs etc used on animals are developed from those used on humans. Except you might need to bandage to prevent mutt licking it off. Dilute saline would be best and then check in at vets with cheque book Agree with ajm apart from peroxide.

OllyK

I'd check with the vet, dogs can be sensitive to many human medications and vice versa. That's not to say I disagree with David, but just to make the point they are not 100% compatible. Bit like chocolate is poisonous to dogs

mj

eh??? - who told you that? - bob martin?

Drunken Bungle Whore

mj - yes, human chocolate is poisonous to dogs. Bob Martins etc are a special recipe.

And I have to do this (as I am usually a resident of the Muppet hutch AND I'm rather drunk as I've had a PARTICULARLY bad day) but:

In answer to the question"can you use human cream on a dog?" Yes, as long as the RSPCA don't find out...

Redkop

Only E45. I know cos I rang my Vet 2 weeks ago and asked

catalunya199again

thanks for the comments. i have heard that about the chocolate to.


my sister had a cavalier king charles and use to destroy chocolate and lived for a good 13 years probably died happy eating all that fat

Dream Weaver

Our dog ate chocolate, lived to 14 (Golden Lab)

Peanuts are poisonous to Cockatiels.

Edit: Our dog ate anything actually - shoes, sofas, clothes, fish & chips

Mice_Elf

Best thing to do would be to snip the hair around the cut and clean it with a strong salt/water concoction.

I did this on one of my cats and a fairly deep cut as it wasn't serious enough to call out the vet, but did need looking at. So I trimmed the area and bathed it, kept her inside and it stayed clean and healed very well.

ozzy

Yeah, I've never understood the chocoloate thing. Our families had loads of dogs and they all lived to a ripe old age and ate chocolate all the time

OK, they only got small bits when we were eating so maybe it's poisonous in large quantities.

Stefan

workshy_fopp

Yep - I remember our old Lab eating a glove and a dressing-gown cord. Both came out whole. Chocolate can't harm them (in reasonable quantaties) Dogs eat they're own **** ffs.

ALi-B

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Sudocream is ok apparently - recommended by the vet. We used it on our doberman without problems (except he liked to lick it off!)

Works well on old people too

Jerome

PMSL at this...

OllyK

Yup about 500g IIRC, but it does depend on the size of the dog. Mind you I think I'd feel pretty crap after that much chocolate as well

Also beware of the coconut based chippings for the garden, they are not good for a dog, in part due to a posinous effect, but also due to the fibrous nature and it blocking the gut.

And then there is raw hide chews....

...Yup serious, but in all honesty, same as for humans, keep thing in moderation and avoid things that are an obvious hazard.

ALi-B

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Hungry dog + Easter do not mix - I think if it was "that" poisonous our dog would have been dead before he hit his 2nd birthday

||VaNDaL||

not sure but if you had asked about KY too, then i could see approaching prosecution or selection to mainstream politics

Scoob99

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We use to use Savlon on our Boxer the vet told us too, as for eating things she ate one of my socks and when she had a crap it was inside the sock, I could'nt stop laughing for days over it
Cheers
Colin

OllyK

Automatic pooper scoop - cool - get down the patent office now!! Then invent one for cats

Scoobychick

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Apparantly you should never give your dog chocolate. It contains theobromine, a chemical that is toxic to dogs. My vet goes into a proper flap if you mention giving your dog chocolate.

OllyK

Damn is there an echo in here??

Yup - the NCDL were in town not long ago handing out leaflets, as I said above it is about 500g for a Lab sized dog.

LC Geezer

Hmm. I've put my human cream on a few dogs in my time. Still, I'm married now so those days are over.

ALi-B

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And my gran regulary fed her pet rat <ahem> sorry Yorkshire Terrier chopped up Kit kats almost daily for years on end. And the yapping nipping thing lived to be 18 years old

The experts may say it's poisonous, which no-one denies. But it's obviously not fatal (unless that rat was supposed to live to 30years )

scoobybitch

Its meant to be dark chocolate thats bad for them. They say its too rich for them and too much of it can make them ill. If your worried about putting cream on your dogs paw to stop infection put a bit of vasaline on his paw. It stops infection getting in and with it being waterproof the dog cant lick all of it off. We had to do this when my dog split stitches in his leg a while ago as the vet knows what hes like for licking cream off he advised to use this instead.

Dream Weaver

PMSL

philc

my dog had a skin complaint, so thought I better use a low allergy shampoo on him; best place to get the shampoo I thought was the Body Shop.

However, all their products were labelled 'not tested on animals' - so that was no use.