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How to Sedate a Werewolf, really.

So you need to sedate a werewolf.

You unlucky bugger. You poor, unfortunate soul. Your single stroke of luck is that you’ve somehow managed to hide yourself away in a veterinary clinic which means you have at least Buckley’s Chance of getting the job done, and Buckley did manage to survive a good 30 years or so.

Why you need to sedate this werewolf is, frankly, your own business. Maybe they are, in daylight, a friend or companion. Perhaps it’s for research. Perhaps you’d really prefer to kill the thing but you don’t think you can. Or, I suppose, you might secretly be the werewolf trying to prevent yourself from going on a violent spree and just don’t want to tell me. It’s alright, I wont snitch.

Good choice picking a vet clinic, one facility with a decent chance of having equipment on hand to sedate a large, opinionated canid with an uncertain chance of death. Now, quickly, what options do you have?

I’m going to assume you’re in a bit of a hurry and have nearly no medical knowledge, but are capable of reading a label and figuring out how to use a needle and syringe. (Hint: pointy end goes into the patient) Use the biggest needles (probably pink ones) that you can, they inject faster and will penetrate even cow skin so  unless there’s the whole ‘only silver can damage them’ thing going on, should be fine.

Oh, and tranquilisers don’t work like in the movies where the animal blinks twice and falls over. It takes multiple minutes, maybe even up to 20, for an animal to feel the effects and they are capable of resisting some, especially when full of adrenaline. Even two minutes wrestling with a recently injected werewolf I would expect to challenge you.

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