Was feeding my Cushings horse his 1mg dose of Prascend that I had stuck in a fig newton. I held the horse until he stopped chewing so I thought he had eaten all of it including the pill. I was looking the rest of the horse over when I happened to see a little hunk of fig newton on the ground right where the horse could have spit out the part that held the pill. I reached down to get it but our male goat was faster. Swallowed it right down. The horse would most likely not have let a yummy cookie bit fall out of his mouth unless it held that bitter looking pill. Of course, I will call the vet if this goat starts acting strange or sick but I just wondered if anyone else had experienced anything such as this? I mean I cannot be positive the goat even ate I’m sure thinking so tho. I found several postings on the internet where people’s dogs had ingested 1mg prascend stealing it off the ground same as goat. They vomited but no worse but I have no idea if a goat can even vomit.
That can kill a medium/small dog. I think you need to call the vet ASAP
Goats are ruminants. Horses, dogs and humans are not. Ruminants metabolize drugs differently, you really do need to call a vet or animal poison control.
It’s been almost 24 hours since I thought the goat might have eaten the tablet of Prascend/Pergolide and goat is acting fine, eating and drinking fine.
Good, it may not have eaten that pill after all, although with goats, you never know.
So what did the vet say?
Since I did not know for sure that the goat ate it, I did not call. I definitely did not want to treat the goat without knowing. It was a totally unknown issue for me so I asked here. I now can see from your comments it would have been too late to have waited. Very fortunate to be able to learn without suffering bad consequences. This morning, I gave the horse a bit of the Fig Newton only big enough to push the pill into and held his head up until I was sure he didn’t spit it out. Thank you all again.
Yay, glad your goat is OK!
Is there away to confine the goat until you are sure the horse has swallowed the pill?
I would also suggest chatting up the vet sometime soon about what to do for the goat the next time he eats something he should not. It’s a goat it’s going to happen! 
Phone calls to vets cost nothing, rather than waiting to see if the animal has an adverse reaction or dies. Just sayin’!
Just FYI I have been using a product called Pill Camo (can get from smartpaks) to feed Prascend and it works great. Entire treat gets crunched down, no spitting or drama.
Something to keep on hand with any animal is activated charcoal. I have the big tubes of charcoal paste that requires a “caulking gun” for dosing but I have cattle. Check your feed store or animal supply catalog to see if they have smaller tubes. You will likely find the powder or tabs at a health food store. Those you can mix with water in a big syringe and squirt it down. Very handy to have as it will bind to substances so that they won’t be absorbed by the intestines. It’s also used in ERs for human patients that have overdosed or consumed poisons.
People have no idea how dangerous to other animals Prascend is. I didn’t either until I started using it
While I personally would have called my vet - remember that its a goat and I’m not sure what experience most vets would have with goats potentially overdosing on horse medications?
Don’t get me wrong because I love goats! I had a pet goat I am not joking I loved her more than any horse I’ve ever owned. But she ate a lot of stupid stuff, used to love to eat rust off an old truck in the driveway. Once when she was only a few months old she swallowed a whole shoeing nail, sharp new nail. She was fine! Wouldn’t eat a carrot after a human bit off of it, but old rotting wet feed in the wash stall (she lived in a co-op type race track barn when she was young) yum yum! Also they metabolize things very differently, my 150lb goat was on a half pill of previcox daily , and at the end of her life a whole pill a day. That’s as much or more than some 1200lb horses!
Hope your goat is doing well!
I suspect a goat vet would know the effects of Prascend once s/he looked up the active ingredient and determined the class of drug. Or could find the answer with some research.
