Panicked Moments as a Pug Mommie!

A few days ago I had some pretty panicked moments as a pug mommie.  It started off like any other day.  Got the boys up.  Got ready to feed them.  It was the day of the month where they needed their flea/tick/heartworm med dropped into their bowls.  Their combo med is prescribed by the vet and I buy it at the vet office.  It's rather powerful stuff it has to be given with their meal. 

I dropped the med in their bowls.  They both began to gobble up their food fast.  I soon noticed the packaging of the medicine box looked different.  I started examining the new pictures on the box.  As I'm examining the box I read that the med is for 40 lb dogs.  What the freak?  Neither of my boys is even 20 lbs.  The vet gave me the wrong size pill for my little guys.  I look down at both boys and their empty bowls.  It was way too late, that med was already in each pug.  Fearing I had just overdosed my pugs I quickly dialed the vet office.  As I waited for the vet clinic to answer I had visions of two pugs needing their stomachs pumped or worse yet each of them croking in the near future.  Oh geez!

As it turned out the vet said the pugs would be fine, he said they'd be super sleepy for 48 to 72 hours.  That they were!  As they were busy sleepy it off I kept checking each boy periodically to make sure they were still breathing.  Even though the vet said they'd be fine I was still worried for quite awhile.  I had two overdosed and extremely drowsy pugs.  When I told my fiancé the story later that night.  He was relieved to find out there was at least an explanation for their super laziness.  He's very used to them greeting him and being excited to see him and the other night they could careless.  Their only interest was in counting sheep!  They were totally out of it for quite awhile, took at least 48 hours to get normal Cody and Simon back.  Whew!  Glad we got thru that!  I seriously hit the panic button for a bit.