Link a cat's fits to a tick-medicine ingredient and get to an emergency vet with ChatGPT
- Posted
- by Natasha Raina (LinkedIn)
- Last checked
- Method:
- How we verify
Evidence: Described by posterThe person describes what happened in words, without screenshots or video.
Context: Urgent pet symptoms always need a vet; here ChatGPT's role was spotting the product link and pushing the owner to go to the emergency vet.
Outcome
Natasha Raina's rescue cat, Miguel, started trembling and having fits after a tick treatment, and the vet couldn't find the cause that day. At 11 p.m. Raina described the symptoms to ChatGPT, which said some cats react to an ingredient in tick medication and to check the product. The ingredient was there; ChatGPT suggested bathing the cat and going to the emergency vet straight away. At midnight the vet confirmed poisoning and said acting fast had saved him. Raina stresses it didn't replace the vet.
Agent
Prompt Recreated prompt
The source didn't share its exact prompt, so we wrote this from what it describes.
Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Help me decide quickly whether my pet's symptoms need an emergency vet now, and what to tell them. Fill in before running: - Animal, age and weight: [PET] - Symptoms and when they started: [SYMPTOMS] - Anything new in the last 48 hours (medicines, flea or tick treatments, foods, plants, cleaning products), with product names: [EXPOSURES] - My nearest emergency vet or poison line: [CONTACT] This is admin and preparation help, not veterinary advice. Don't diagnose or suggest treatments or doses. If anything I mention sounds urgent, tell me to contact my vet, an emergency vet or an animal poison control line first. Rules: - If any symptom could be an emergency (fits, trembling, collapse, breathing trouble), say so first and tell me to call the emergency vet or poison line now. - Point out any recent product I should check the label of, and tell me to bring the packaging. - Only pass on first-aid steps the product label, vet or poison line tells me to take. - Write a short summary I can read out to the vet. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A clear 'go now' or 'call your vet' line, products to check, and a 30-second summary for the vet. You'll know it worked when: my pet is seen by a vet quickly and the vet has the product details.
Try this in:
This prompt has blanks to fill in, like [PET]. We'll copy it instead of filling it in, so you can edit it before you send.
Opens in a new tab. We don't see what you send.
These links are only a shortcut. We're not affiliated with OpenAI, Google or xAI, and your results may not match the source.
Optional stronger version
Our rewrite with extra checks. The poster didn't test it.
Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Help me decide quickly whether my pet's symptoms need an emergency vet now, and what to tell them. Fill in before running: - Animal, age and weight: [PET] - Symptoms and when they started: [SYMPTOMS] - Anything new in the last 48 hours (medicines, flea or tick treatments, foods, plants, cleaning products), with product names: [EXPOSURES] - My nearest emergency vet or poison line: [CONTACT] This is admin and preparation help, not veterinary advice. Don't diagnose or suggest treatments or doses. If anything I mention sounds urgent, tell me to contact my vet, an emergency vet or an animal poison control line first. Rules: - If any symptom could be an emergency (fits, trembling, collapse, breathing trouble), say so first and tell me to call the emergency vet or poison line now. - Point out any recent product I should check the label of, and tell me to bring the packaging. - Only pass on first-aid steps the product label, vet or poison line tells me to take. - Write a short summary I can read out to the vet. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Never suggest home treatment as a replacement for the vet. Output: A clear 'go now' or 'call your vet' line, products to check, and a 30-second summary for the vet. You'll know it worked when: my pet is seen by a vet quickly and the vet has the product details. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
Source
Related cases
- Get a dog with sudden foamy coughing to an emergency vet in time after ChatGPT flagged possible bloatEvidence: Described by posterBeginner-friendly
When the family dog began coughing up foam after drinking, Chase Williams asked ChatGPT to question them like a vet would. After asking about breed, age, frequency and when it started, ChatGPT said it could be urgent and might be bloat, which in bigger dogs can be fatal within hours. The dog was put in the car immediately; the vet diagnosed bloat needing emergency surgery and said the dog had arrived just in time. Williams stresses ChatGPT is not a vet and shouldn't be trusted on its own.
ChatGPT · Personal · Source date:
- Find the one 24-hour pharmacy on the way home from an emergency vet with GrokRecreated promptEvidence: Described by posterBeginner-friendly
Leaving an emergency vet late at night with their dog, the poster couldn't find a 24-hour pharmacy through regular searches. They told Grok where they were and where they needed to go, and it found the one 24-hour pharmacy reasonably within their journey.
Grok · Personal · Source date:
- Question four of 24 charges on a vet urgent-care estimate with ChatGPT and save $600Recreated promptEvidence: Described by poster
At a veterinary urgent care clinic, a Rundown community member called Jeff photographed the two-page itemized list of 24 proposed charges, added what the vet had said, and asked ChatGPT which charges were very likely unnecessary. It flagged four with limited value. When Jeff crossed them off, the vet agreed two offered no benefit and explained why the other two should stay; Jeff kept those two and says the process saved $600.
ChatGPT · Personal · Source date: