Oh, vets LOVE tramadol. Because it's pretty effective and fewer humans know about it enough to try to abuse it. If you have a pet with pain, you are likely getting tramadol or rimadyl (NSAID). Depending.

It cracks me up when pet and human meds are the same. Kittenish and my Dad both used to take atenolol. And, actually, maybe the same thyroid med too. But hers was tuna-flavored.

If you have a pet with pain, you are likely getting tramadol or rimadyl (NSAID). Depending.

Kato has them both -- the rimadyl was a daily med, since it was meant to get the inflammation under control, and the tramadol was just as-needed if his knee injury was causing him obvious pain/mobility issues.

He doesn't take them on a daily basis any more, because rest and a few months of the rimadyl really helped. Every once in a great while, if we take too long of a walk, he ends up limping hours later, and we give him 1/2 a rimadyl and that usually takes care of it.

Good old dog. He's slowing down somewhat -- 20 minutes is really his maximum walk time these days, which makes me sad because he's getting old -- but he's still pretty frisky and energetic.

I came home to a very apologetic note slipped under my door ("I'm truly sorry for disturbing you at that hour and being a total asshole"), including a Starbucks gift card. I hope this concludes my adventures with cranky neighbor.

Great -- I could have called 1-800-VET-MEDS.

I remember when I tried to use the cat's ringworm meds on myself. It didn't go away, and my doc about busted a gut laughing at me, because the cat med was way too dilute for a human.

I was in grad school, with no insurance. It SOUNDED logical...

Great -- I could have called 1-80-VET-MEDS.

I may or may not have taken one of Kato's tramadol pills when I had a terrible migraine that my regular migraine meds had no effect on.

I've still got Lucy's lidocaine patches.

He doesn't take them on a daily basis any more, because rest and a few months of the rimadyl really helped. Every once in a great while, if we take too long of a walk, he ends up limping hours later, and we give him 1/2 a rimadyl and that usually takes care of it.

Yeah, they are really effective. Hard to watch pets inevitably get older but nice we can make them more comfortable.

I was in grad school, with no insurance. It SOUNDED logical...

You only failed to do the math. It's just mass vs meds. Cats weigh a lot less than people. Easier with dogs because they are much closer to human weight. It's literally the same meds.

My dog and I were both on predisone at the same time years ago. That was "fun".

I came home to a very apologetic note slipped under my door ("I'm truly sorry for disturbing you at that hour and being a total asshole"), including a Starbucks gift card. I hope this concludes my adventures with cranky neighbor.

Now, that's an apology. I am impressed with the fact that the guy is apparently an expert both at being an asshole and at apologizing. You would think that the one would afford the opportunity to practice the other, but so often that practice does not produce expertise.

I do appreciate the frank assessment. And the gift card says:

To: Good Neighbor
From: Bad Neighbor
Sorry for being a jerk