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Also your dog probably needs 1/10th the dose that an adult needs.

• philwelch 6y ago
  Large dogs can be the same weight as small humans, so I'm not sure what accounts for 1/10th. Even medium-sized dogs like labs are about half the weight of a healthy, average-sized person.
  • girvo 6y ago
    Depends on the drug, but their metabolism isnt identical to ours, and humans can often require significantly higher doses compared to other animals when controlling for dosage per weight unit. But again it depends and there is no hard and fast rule as far as I’m aware.
• mattkrause 6y ago
  It's way more complicated than that: there are differences in metabolism as well as size. It varies from drug to drug too, but as a rule of thumb dog needs about twice the human dose (in mg/kg). A 60 lb dog therefore needs about the same as a smallish adult. Here's some FDA guidance on how to translate doses from animals to humans: https://www.fda.gov/media/72309/download https://www.fda.gov/media/72309/download
  • tguvot 6y ago
    Even more than twice. My dogs, despite weighting 5th of me had similar to mine dosages of antibiotics and antihistamines