Q: Hello, I recently took my dog to the vet and they said he has heartworms. When we went there to pick him up and-
everything, the assistant gave the medicine to a family friend of ours. The family friend is super controlling. She will not let me and my girlfriend, the dog's owners, to give him the medicine every day. So we have my girlfriend's mother coming over to give him his medicine every two times a day. But the family friend is still withholding all of the medication. Is it illegal to withhold the medication when me and my girlfriend, the legal owners of the dog, don't give consent to her withholding them?
A:
First, stop asking this friend to run errands for you. Then see if you can get more of the medication from the vet. If not, you'll have to make due until the current prescription is up.
While this "friend" doesn't have any right to the medication, the issue is not one that makes sense to file suit over.
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