Answer: when treatment of an illness is in progress, the vet’s instructions
should be always carefully followed. Most owners will do this to the best
of their ability but there are some who vary the treatment as they see fit
and discontinue the course of tablets if they feel the animal has improved
sufficiently, not realizing that by so doing they risk the animal relapsing. On
the other hand, if the animal has entirely recovered from a condition and
the vet has advised stopping treatment, it could be harmful to prolong drug
therapy. Some owners even obtained drugs from other sources and give
them indiscriminately, thereby damaging the health of their pet.
