Butorphanol tartrate: a new antitussive agent for use in dogs

Christie, G.J.; Strom, P.W.; Rourke, J.E.; Christie, G.J; Strom, P.W; Rourke, J.E

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Butorphanol tartrate: a new antitussive agent for use in dogs

Christie, G.J.; Strom, P.W.; Rourke, J.E.

Veterinary Medicine-Small Animal Clinician 75(10): 1559-1562

1980

ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4889

PMID: 6904071

Document Number: 164491

Sixty-one dogs of varying age, breed and sex with respiratory diseases, mostly (80%) tracheobronchitis, were injected with either 0.1 mg/kg or 0.05 mg/kg of butorphanol tartrate. Coughing was controlled in 93% of the dogs and the response in 47 was judged to be good or excellent. Noticable side effects were sedation in 34% of dogs given 0.1 mg/kg and 3.5 given 0.05 mg/kg, nervousness (2 dogs), rash (1), anorexia (2), emesis (1), tremors (1) and diarrhoea (1).