Viagra for dogs
Before you write in and complain, it’s not what you’re thinking!
The Viagra was administered to a dog in order to save his life, rather than to save his sex life and ensure that he was the best stud dog in town.
The Springer Spaniel, Bentley, had lungworm in his pulmonary arteries which resulted in his heart rate slowing. The illness is also common in humans, and can be treated with the sexual aid drug, Viagra. Knowing this, Ben Harris, the veterinary surgeon, gave Bentley a dose of Viagra to save his life.
The disease is quite common in dogs as well, as hundreds of pet dogs suffer from, and sadly die, every year from the parasitic disease. The disease can be spread by a dog’s tendency to eat slugs and snails in the garden. The molluscs have a parasitic larvae that can spread to the dog’s pulmonary artery and cause the heart rate to slow, and the dog to suffer from a shortness of breath.
Viagra has been administered to dogs before for other illnesses, including the prevention of heart attacks.
One possible side effect of Viagra for dogs is the very reason for which it has become famous for humans, though luckily for Bentley’s owner David Roach that wasn’t a problem as Bentley had been neutered. Otherwise there could have been some serious problems for Bentley and David should they need to go for walkies!
Bentley now has to have Viagra every day in order to live a normal life, which of course begs the question how David Roach will explain the daily need for Viagra to his chemist.
I am so sorry I learn this so late. My dog of 15 years had pulmonary disease, and I was giving him viagra and amlodipine besylate 2.5mg but it didn’t help the disease was too advance and he was old.