I have a plastic pill bottle that I got at the vet brand new when the doc took a sticker out of my dog’s tongue. I rinsed it out and put vitamin capsules to carry in my purse. On the lid it says “For animal use only.” I’m guessing that is for when the doc puts dog/cat pills in there, and it refers to the pills. Is there any other reason I shouldn’t use this as a pill bottle?
Make sure it was well rinsed. (Dilution is the solution to pollution.)
Remove the sticker that says that, or cross out with a sharpie.
You’ll be fine.
Maybe that means it’s not child-proof?
For animal use only and for veterinary use only are common labels which speak only about the drug contained in the bottle.
There’s no problem with using that for your own pills–they’re the exact same vials as you get at a human pharmacy, we just get different lids. The lids refer only to the drugs. They put that on there so some nimrod doesn’t take drugs that are approved for use in critters but not humans, or come in different dosages from what is used in humans, or are made to slightly different quality control standards than what you get in human medicine.
Well, actually, they put that on there to absolve themselves of legal liability should said nimrod injure himself taking drugs that aren’t approved for humans, or are the wrong dose, or made to different qc standards, but you know what I meant.
The last time I had a cat’s prescription filled at the pharmacy, they put a sticker on it, warning the cat not top operate heavy machinery.
stands to reason. Caterpillar is a manufacturer of heavy equipment. Their bulldozer is often called a CAT.
Well, I’ve been taking the pills I put in there… Unfortunately I think I have fleas. On the upside, I can now hear very high-pitched sounds and lick my privates.
This thread proves one thing -
Cats read the dope -
A few years ago, my local sheriff told me that it is illegal, a felony, to put a different pill into a prescription pill bottle other than what the bottle label says.
Which means you just need to rip the label off. He’s right, in a way, if you’re selling/giving what’s in the bottle to someone else, but the contents aren’t what’s listed on the label. (Rx transfer laws aside). For personal use, once what’s labeled for is gone, just remove the label or cross out the name of the drug that’s no longer in there.
The system that auto-generates those labels doesn’t know that the prescription isn’t for a human. The only reason it might flag the prescription is if the dosage would be outside the parameters it has for human prescriptions of that medicine.
That at least makes some sense. Why that system insists on adding a “WARNING: May cause drowsiness” for sleeping pills is another kettle of fish. :smack:
I said in the OP:
There’s no label on the bottle. The bottle was brand new. There was never a label on the bottle. There were never any pills in the bottle. The only thing that was in the bottle was the sticker the vet took out of my dog’s tongue. That’s why I rinsed it. On the lid it says, “For animal use only.”
Excuse me- I have to go… there are some knots in my fur that I have to lick out… and then I have some sofa cushions to destroy.
I didn’t quote it, because the post was directly above mine, but I was answering the post directly above mine:
That’s all. Though I’m getting a strange urge to chase a tail I don’t have. Since I re-use animal Rx bottles all the time. My cats have more of them than I do!
What that means is that it may cause more drowsiness than expected. Particularly, you may still be drowsy upon waking.
Also, you’d be surprised how many sleeping pills are not prescribed just for insomnia, and how many doctors won’t tell you that they are sleeping pills when they do this.
Yeah… Now when I hear a can being opened, I start to salivate.
Too funny. You’re killing me.
Don’t stop.