Hi Bert,
"I guess vets would administer Ketamine and pain meds to animals. But, wouldn't that PMP entry be entered under the owner's name? I mean a dog can't really fill dogoxy early, can it?"
Normally I wouldn't chime in on medical matters . . .
But I do know that vets sometimes have to do odd things to write prescriptions.
I once had to pick up a controlled no-refill pain-killer prescription from my vet for "Dog Fogel"--the pharmacist finally called my vet to confirm things.
But that was so long ago that I haven't got the paperwork.
However, I do have this 2019 finasteride rx receipt for a Colorado basset hound with a prostate problem:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/78s9etcjec1jci2/moses_rx.JPG?dl=0Elsewhere, it says "NO REFILLS - DR. AUTH REQUIRED" and lists Moses's address and telephone number, which he shares with his brother, Elliott.
(And with me, too, though my name doesn't appear anywhere in the welter of official details.)
Shamefully, the rx didn't list the number on Moses's rabies tag, so almost any basset hound could have waddled into the pharmacy and left with a dangerous drug.
However, it did warn Moses to keep his pills out of reach of children and pets.
Of course, somewhere in the bowels of the bureaucracy my name may appear in connection with the prescription, but it certainly didn't appear on any of the paperwork that I handled.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
