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Dog metacam help please?

Zoobec

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Hi my girls have been spayed today, they are not large rabbits, (lionheads) 6 months old. When I called the vets to make my appointment to collect them they said they have been prescribed oral dog metacam and it would be dosage for a 5kg dog :shock: is this right? I asked for them to have pain relief to come home with pain relief but I want it to be right. Help please!
 
Do you know how much they weigh and whether that is once or twice a day? It doesn't sound that far out, rabbits can have much larger doses per kilogram than dogs do, so it's good that your vet is happy to prescribe additional pain relief like that :D.
 
That's great thanks! Not sure on their weights but they'll have been weighed at the vets and they said they'd calculated it as that but I wanted to double check :thumb:
 
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