Today I was at the vet

[L'absent]

I was in a room alone with my cat. Behind me an open display case full of bottles of Tanax. I could have gotten 8/9 of them without the vet realizing when I got back. But it seems you need a sedative first, otherwise you will suffer. Tanax seems to block breathing and all muscles.

 

[Willy Wonka]

interesting - never heard of Tanax before ...

 

[L'absent]

interesting - never heard of Tanax before ...

You should stick yourself with timed injection needles. First the sedative and then the Tanax drug. Death is completely painless. I've seen it used on horses and it works great. If it kills a horse, it kills us too.

 

[Willy Wonka]

You should stick yourself with timed injection needles. First the sedative and then the Tanax drug. Death is completely painless. I've seen it used on horses and it works great. If it kills a horse, it kills us too.

I think I red sth about it being used in combination with two other substances ... could just be really problematic to get them ...

 

[L'absent]

I think I red sth about it being used in combination with two other substances ... could just be really problematic to get them ...

Yes. First there is the sedation and then the tanax.
Can we add him to the group's lethal methods? Death is 100% certain. An animal has never survived.

 

[Willy Wonka]

Yes. First there is the sedation and then the tanax.
Can we add him to the group's lethal methods? Death is 100% certain. An animal has never survived.

I guess so, yeah - sounds great but I don´t even know that "lethal methods thread" tbh ...

 

[Kali_Yuga13]

First time hearing of Tanax. I did a little digging on the subject, apparently it's a formula containing three different substances, (embutramide, mebenzonium iodide and tetracaine hydrochloride). Embutramide is chemically similar to GHB and I would think that would serve as a sedative. Mebenzonium is a muscle relaxer/paralytic. The tetracaine is just for making the injection painless.

It reminds me of a critique of MAiD protocols I read where they were concerned that the muscle relaxers mask the body's reaction to hypoxia theorizing people feel like their drowning to death but are paralyzed so it looks like they're not suffering.

This article offers a comparison with phenobarbital in a pet euthanistic study which found it suboptimal. In some places I read that it's not used much anymore. I wonder if your vet just has back stock sitting around.

 

[L'absent]

There has been a request from many vets to withdraw Tanax for some time: the drug, if used intrapulmonary, causes atrocious suffering. In other countries it has not been used for 20 years. In Italy almost all veterinarians use it for this after sedation and intravenously or intracardiacly.

 

[star.trip]

I had no idea that this drug was called that. I will check it out.