canine fluoxetine dose
Dosing Information of âFluoxetine for Dogs and Cats. 1  Medication should never be administered without first consulting your veterinarian. 2  For dogs, the dose of fluoxetine is 0.5 to 1 mg per pound (1 to 2 mg/kg) given every 24 hours, orally. 3  For cats, the dose is 2 to 5 mg per cat once daily.
For example, in a double-masked field study (Rapoport. JL, et.al.; 1992), a mean fluoxetine dose range of 0.55 to 1.36 mg/kg of body. weight/day administered over five weeks produced a 39% (p<0.05) reduction in mean. licking behavior from baseline observations in fourteen dogs diagnosed with acral. lick dermatitis (ALD).