If Petco overdosed or could have overdosed your dog on heartworm medicine would you sue?
I am so pissed. I got heartworm meds from luv my pet at petco right after I got her shots. I had my 3lb jack russell in my arms, ( she is a mini jack ) and I had her paperwork and her weight. they asked if i wanted to buy the interceptor and ASKED all the info. They gave me a 6 month supply of pills in a sealed envelope with the pills in a package inside. I went to give her the 1st dose today and opened it up and couldn’t get the pill to pop out the package so i flipped it over and in small print it said for dogs 11 to 25 lbs… WTF.
I am not one to sue but giving your dog medicine 6 times greater than the dose she needs could of been BAD or fatal..and they are prescription …so how could they miss that.
What would you do ?
sorry to ask this again lol.. I just think of my little kids if their puppy would of got sick or died.
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teresa m :
I would talk to someone Diva, I have a very close relationship with my Vet she is close with the shelter here if you get a dog from the shelter here (this is a small town it only costs $15.00 to adopt one) Dr. Peggy fixes a male for $15.00 she loves the animals and is very kind. Everyone in her office double checks everything. I take Yasha to her for all medicines but she does not do training so I do take her to Petco for training and I had a wonderful experience there. If you look on your receipt there should be a number to call, I have had to call a couple of times because they charged the full price and they told me that I had a 15% credit and it never showed up and they were always very helpful and even gave me an additional 5% credit. Why don’t you try calling them. We do not have heart-worm here in Nevada, so I do not have to worry about it, but when I was in Utah I know we had chewable tablets and for my smaller dog my Vet there had me break them in half, is it possible for you to break yours into fourths? I really do understand you concern. When my son was 3 months old the pharmacy gave him medicine that said 1 tsp. every bowl movement and when I gave it to him he turned blue. We rushed him to the hospital it was supposed to say 1mil. every bowl movement. I could have killed him. I was so upset, they have a hard job. I was just so happy that my son was alive and I thank God that he turned blue before I killed him. God works in strange ways. I am glad you caught the mistake and your puppy is alive.