Animal and Human Prescriptions: Not So Different After All
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Turning headline news into punchline gold. Five nights a week. The Last Show with David Cooper. Hello? It's Vet Talk or Pet Talk. Dr. Cliff Redford is here to talk about the amazing drugs that animals can be prescribed and what he recently prescribed a pet. You won't believe what happens next. Is that good clickbait, Cliff? I don't know. Yeah, that's a good stand-up joke there. I love it. It's all things animals. Okay, my kitty was on an anti-rash dermatitis medication. Worked out well for him. By the way, I never thanked you. I sent you horrific pictures of my cat's rash, and you're like, yeah, he needs medication. Yeah. So we took him to the vet. Thank you. I think your vet should thank me.
What surprising medication did Dr. Cliff Redford prescribe to a dog?
They should be giving me like a referral fee or something, right? Probably. That's how it should work. I go to a great vet. He's called the, I'm going to give him free advertising. It's called the cat practice. And it's a cat only vet in Manhattan here. and they love cats there they just because my old vet i think this happens no one talks about this they're like oh we treat all animals but i think there's some vets that are biased for dogs that they really like dogs biased positively for dogs and it's not that they're gonna like harm your cat but they just like don't have the patience and the love for kitties that they do dogs and as a cat owner you don't want to go to a vet like that The emotional side of it, the EQ side of it, the bedside manner of dealing with a dog is very different than dealing with a cat.
If you snuggle up to your average cat patient and rub their bellies and give them soft noogies to the head, they're going to rip your face off. But the dog, that's amazing, right? If a dog is being a little bit aggressive... you can kind of say, hey, settle down, sit. You do that to a cat and it launches into your face. Yeah, if it's a little aggressive, you got to give it space and make it feel safe. Yeah, very, very different. I'm just saying certain vets don't have the patience for cats. And we were going to one and we had a bad experience every time. And then we started going to this guy. And yes, our cat's bad at the vet, but they're very patient about it and they understand. And that's all he does is cats.
It's called the cat practice, Cliff. He's not treating bunnies. Why is he practicing? Shouldn't he be doing? He shouldn't be practicing. Is this your doctor and veterinarian joke? Why are doctor's offices and veterinary offices called practices? That's a great question. Yeah, I practice medicine. No, I do medicine. And legal. I'm like, I don't want my lawyer practicing. Do a good job here. This is the real thing. I might go to jail. So there are cat-specific clinics. They actually have a special certification here in Ontario because they need different tools or they don't need as many tools or they don't need a large dog run, let's say, if you're a cat-only clinic. And yeah, some cat owners prefer that for good reason.
I mean, I go to a doctor that only treats people for good reason. I don't. Oh, okay. Well, clearly not. He treats me. okay let's get to some of the things that animals can be prescribed i'm on a medication as a mood stabilizer and sleep aid called gabapentin i believe it's prescribed to me by my my psychiatrist off label it's typically used for nerve pain in people that's the on label use but it's used in psychiatric context as well it's one of my antidepressant whatever but uh Pets use gabapentin. This shocked me when I saw my kid. I picked up a script for my kitty and I'm like, you're taking the same thing as me, bro. Yeah, yeah. We commonly write prescriptions for human drugstores.
Why is it important to choose a vet that specializes in cats?
And of course, everyone always says, oh, can I put this on my medical coverage plan? No, you can't do that. uh i've never heard that joke before gabapentin is used to kind of calm down at a much lower dose calm down pets i believe you can do it for calming down pets probably the most common usage is for pain for neuropathic pain for spinal arthritis for pain in cats with diabetes they get pain in the what's called a peripheral neuropathy
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