"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
"Christina Websell" wrote in
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I'm not responding to the disagreement about the shampoo. I will
decide what I think is best for her. ~ that is due to my
intelligence. Sometimes I am so intelligent that I surprise myself
at being able to decide what best to do ;-)

Tweed

Oh, but Tweed, you may have misread it the first 5 or 6 times she
posted it! ;

Chin Skritches,

CatNipped ----- running and ducking

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To be fair I *do* appreciate tripsovercats advice. I read it and consider
it carefully every time. I can't say I appreciate the tone it's delivered
in but I realise that there is real concern for KFC there.
I often cannot take that advice for various reasons, often the cultural
difference between what is available for cats here in the UK and the USA.
Take sub-q fluids for example in one of my previous threads. It's really
not allowed for owners to adminster them to their animals here and those
few vets in the UK who allow it that I was urged to get in touch with are
sailing very close to the wind. If they got found out they would surely
be struck off.

I found my own way round that with oral rehydration fluid which Kitty is
happy to drink. When she was in CRF crisis a while ago she drank it all
the time even when she had plain water as a choice. Now she gets a litre
of it (which lasts 3 days or so) every two weeks. It keeps her ticking
along.

As for the shampoo (noun and verb) I'll be making my own mind up about
that too. I will take into consideration all the helpful posts on here
and will talk to my vet about what I decide.
He'll be very surprised to learn that not only is she still alive (he had
that needle ready..) but is eating well (okay, mainly chicken, not ideal)
has put on weight and now needs a bit more beautifying. He'll be glad to
be proved wrong.
I don't really blame him for thinking she had no chance at that time. She
had stopped eating entirely, was extremely thin, was wandering and getting
lost and had bad diarrhoea. pooing everywhere in the house. Plus she
looked like she hadn't been groomed for a million years. If you were a
vet, what would you say? The same thing, probably.
He reluctantly treated her and said I must be prepared to say goodbye very
soon.
I knew he was wrong. I *knew* she would come right. With the steroid
injection to boost the appetite, the poo meds which stopped the diarrhoea.
we are on track. It was very worrying when she was wandering and seeming
desperate to get away from her home. The upside is I now have very high
fences, but it was heartbreaking to see her using all her strength to
escape from here. I put it down to an infection she had at that time.
It took a long time before I was brave enough to let her out again.

She's fine now. She can be trusted at long last. "What? Go out if it's
not sunny? Leave the doors open and I'll just sleep here on top of the
freezer in the conservatory" That's a hotly debated place, it's Boyfie's
favourite sleeping place too.
N calls it "Boyfriend's beloved freezer."

Tweed

That's *SO* good to hear. May she sail proudly along for quite some time
yet - she is truly the grande olde dame of the newsgroup and we're all
rooting for her!

Hugs,

CatNipped