[rozap]

They are absolutely not safe at normal doses. They killed my 2 year old dog. There are thousands of dogs out there that experienced seizures from this class of drugs.

She had seizures within hours of giving her the stuff, and was dead within 48 hours.

I'll happily die on this hill of looking like an internet crank ranting about drug companies, but it was a traumatizing experience for my wife and I, and even worse for our dog.

Fuck Merck, they can rot in hell.

[oldstrangers]

It's weird that regardless of how many different ways you try to tell this to people they're still more than happy to give the benefit of the doubt to $307 billion dollar pharma company.

[kstrauser]

It’s about risk assessment. It would be awful to have one of the small percent of dogs that have bad reactions to those medicines. It’s also bad to have dogs crawling with ticks.

Where I grew up, having dogs get sick from tick bites was fairly common. Ever seen a collie with its ears packed with swollen ticks? That has to be miserable. The risk of the medicine was less than the risk of the bites in our case.