Episode 346 – Pets and Our Drugs

Bam desk CThis week’s podcast considers some of the factors that may contribute to pets consuming potentially toxic human drugs. The overwhelming majority of these are accidental poisonings; the people involved love their animals and would never deliberately do anything to harm them. On the other hand sometimes illness, pain, or the side-effects of any medications may cause us to store medications in locations that, while convenient for us, may put our pets in harm’s way.

There’s no doubt in my mind that Bamboo the cat would discover any medication-containing container of any kind on my desk and explore its toy potential just like he does everything else!