Dog Licks Chemo Drug Off Owner And Gets Violently Ill

He puts a form of chemotherapy called fluorouracil on his head for treatment. When Sugar jumped in the bed one morning, he caught Tony off guard. "I screamed at him to stop and he jumped down," says Tony. "That began our journey with his exposure." Sugar had licked the drug off Tony's head and, within hours, was shaking and vomiting.

 

I tell everyone to exercise extra caution when handling drugs of any sort around dogs. I put mine in a separate room, high up, in a room with a door. Those items never leave that room, and that door is kept shut.

 

I found a pill on a student’s floor the other day as I was leaving. Some kind of capsule. This kind of poisoning can happen very easily. People are lax and dogs get hurt. 

 

Set up some kind of protocol for your home and have the poison control number handy in case of any such emergency.