Anyone know how much Gravol you can give a dog?

[DogPaddle]

My mum's dog is flipping out. She is shaking so bad and salivating she is made so nervous by fireworks. My mum has given her a small amount of gravol before as it calms her but it isn't doing much to take the edge off. How much can she safely give her 10lb dog?

[JackieMaya]

What is Gravol?

[ESSlover]

[quote name='JackieMaya']What is Gravol?[/quote]

Thats what I was wondering. :lol:

[JackieMaya]

I'm assuming that maybe it's some form of tranquilizer? The Golden Retriever I used to have (Cracker) got so freaked out on the Fourth of July with the fireworks that we had to give him tranquilizers or he would just hide and throw up. Poor guy.

[DogPaddle]

A gravol is a generic travel aid. Sedates slightly and settles stomache. I was thinking you could go with the lowest dose for a child and then reduce it for weight to scale.

[pollysmith]

People medicine can kill a dog if you don't know what you are doing. CALL YOUR VET!

[DogPaddle]

My mom left the tv on and put her old plastic crate (door removed) beside the tv stand, closed all the windows and blinds and gave her a pet skullcap and valerian pill. She was still a nervous wreck but a bit better.

Kavik is freaked by fireworks too, he tries to scare them away by barking at them. I give him half a melatonin tablet and take him too the basement bedroom - works pretty well.

Polly - most people here are very knowledgable and educated pet owners. It is good you are concerned about animal welfare but you can probably assume we have checked to see that the products we are giving our dogs are safe. Vets of ok'd and even encouraged the use of people medicine for pets before especially things like - aspirin, gravol, melatonin, pepto bismal etc.

[Horsefeathers!]

You ended up mentioning it, but I was wondering about having her give the dog melatonin, too.

[Lucky Chaos]

Our vet suggested using it for Riley's car sickness. He's about 45 lbs, and we give him 25 ML. I think thats like half a children's one. I have no idea how much you'd give a 10 lbs dog, calling the vet would be the best option.

[Horsefeathers!]

K, here's an article that CarolK9s posted last year (or the year before?) about melatonin use in sound sensitive dogs. I've been doing this and it does help with mine. Seems to help settle them without sedating them.
[url]http://www.peoriahs.org/melatonin.html[/url]

[DogPaddle]

For my boys it seems to just settle them down and they get sleepy. It's the most relaxed Kavik ever gets.

[Carolk9s]

I have used melatonin MANY MANY times during T-storms, does not make them sleepy or knock them out in any way. Just seems to help take the edge off of their fears and keep them more relaxed. It is possible that melatonin in a dog that was NOT excited or fearful might induce some sleepiness but is it not a sleeping pill per se.

[DogPaddle]

It could be the boys appeared sleepy because it was late in the evening and they were relaxed or it could have been the 10k hike earlier but what ever the case they did appear a bit sleepy.