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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:44:30 GMT, Rhonda wrote:
It would be cool if all pharmacies would carry a carnivore flavor. I'm lucky. Levi likes the regular kids formulation, bubble gum (?) flavored amoxicillan. I just have to hold the oral syringe up and start squeezing and he sucks it all down. Rudy doesn't do well with liquid meds, and never has from the time he was a kitten. He gets very upset and foams at the mouth, so I just pill him (which, surprisingly, is not a problem). Thankfully, Rudy never gets sick anymore, but I know that won't last forever. Rudy also has terrible allergic reactions to his vaccines and has to have a Benadryl injection first. The first time he had his shots, he reacted within 5 minutes and it was really scary. He hates the vet, needless to say. -- Lynne |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
I'm jealous! There is a compounding pharmacy in town but I have a feeling
it's mainly geared toward the human taste buds. It does seem like there's enough of a vet market that it would be profitable to make at least the most common antibiotics meat or fish flavored! Bonnie "Rhonda" wrote in message ... The pharmacy that compounds for vets here made us chicken gravy-flavored once. I got cans of chicken-gravy cat food, poured off some of the gravy into a cat bowl, put the flavored medicine in that, and our most finicky (and smart) cat ate it right down! I think I screamed for joy on that one. It would be cool if all pharmacies would carry a carnivore flavor. Rhonda IDzine01 wrote: Oh my, that's hilarious! Dave did get meat flavored antibiotics. It's a major veterinary hospital in this area so they fill the perscriptions right there. His is chicken flavored. He doesn't seem to mind the flavor but he doesn't like being held down. Rhonda wrote: 22brix wrote: "Rhonda" wrote in message ... We recently had a vet call in a prescription and the pharmacist filled it as LEMON flavored liquid. OMG, we had a cat fight on our hands, and we lost! Or how about bubblegum flavored?! I wish they'd make a tuna flavored antibiotic--it would certainly make life a lot easier! Bubblegum? Ooohh. After I got home and realized it was heavily flavored with lemon, I called the pharmacy back. They offered to flavor it anything else, and said they had every flavor you could think of. Of course I said "Meat?" He said no, everything else. Everything else was all fruits, chocolate, or bubblegum. I'm sure that didn't work for your cat either. There is a compounding pharmacy here that does meat flavors for vets, but it was too late on a Friday night for that. Rhonda |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
"Lynne" wrote in message m... on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:44:30 GMT, Rhonda wrote: Rudy also has terrible allergic reactions to his vaccines and has to have a Benadryl injection first. The first time he had his shots, he reacted within 5 minutes and it was really scary. He hates the vet, needless to say. -- Lynne Been there, done that. I still remember one memorable night on Valentines, in stormy, rainy weather trying to find my way to the emergency vet (of course emergencies only happen when my own vet is not on call!) with a cat who was having difficulty breathing after her vaccines. After that, we gave her Benadryl first but she started reacting even then. We eventually had to stop giving her any vaccines (except rabies--she was okay with rabies vac.) It is very scary!! Bonnie |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:51:55 GMT, "22brix"
wrote: After that, we gave her Benadryl first but she started reacting even then. We eventually had to stop giving her any vaccines (except rabies--she was okay with rabies vac.) It is very scary!! Yeah, Rudy had a slight reaction with his vaccines this time, even with the Benadryl. He may not get anything other than rabies from now on, either. That doesn't worry me. I may have him titered to check his immunity. I suspect it lasts a hell of a lot longer than 1 year, perhaps even a lifetime (after the 2nd year booster, that is). -- Lynne |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:44:36 GMT, "22brix" wrote:
make at least the most common antibiotics meat or fish flavored! Can you imagine accidentally getting one of these flavors for your kid? I find that possibility hilarious for some reason. I'd love to see the look on my daughter's face! -- Lynne |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
"Lynne" wrote in message m... on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:51:55 GMT, "22brix" wrote: After that, we gave her Benadryl first but she started reacting even then. We eventually had to stop giving her any vaccines (except rabies--she was okay with rabies vac.) It is very scary!! Yeah, Rudy had a slight reaction with his vaccines this time, even with the Benadryl. He may not get anything other than rabies from now on, either. That doesn't worry me. I may have him titered to check his immunity. I suspect it lasts a hell of a lot longer than 1 year, perhaps even a lifetime (after the 2nd year booster, that is). -- Lynne My vet is no longer recommending that I vaccinate my previously vaccinated cats (strictly indoor) for anything but rabies which makes me happy! Bonnie Bonnie |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
"Lynne" wrote in message m... on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:44:36 GMT, "22brix" wrote: make at least the most common antibiotics meat or fish flavored! Can you imagine accidentally getting one of these flavors for your kid? I find that possibility hilarious for some reason. I'd love to see the look on my daughter's face! -- Lynne Hey, she might like it! Although if you're expecting fruit flavor. . . a bit like drinking a mouthful of buttermilk when you're expecting milk! Bonnie |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (pics)
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:44:37 GMT, Rhonda
wrote: dgk wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:57:15 GMT, Rhonda wrote: Sometimes food allergies can cause itching and swelling -- our cat that down his cheek. He was put on IVD limited ingredients food. Don't let them give him a steroid shot for allergies. Our cat became diabetic 3 weeks after one shot. Rhonda As we discussed a while back, there is a link between steroids and diabetes but for a steroid shot to cause diabetes seems very rare. It's more likely that the shot can push a marginally diabetic cat over the line. Many, many cats get steroids for all kinds of things and don't get diabetes. Rhonda, do you recall which steroid it was? Maybe there is a difference between the short acting and long acting ones? No, I never knew what type -- I wasn't the one who took the cat in that time. It was our internist vet that pointed out the link. She even said it happened to a cat that she personally had given a steroid shot. Also, a surgeon who we consulted for another cat said there are different types of steroids, but when we told him it was an allergy shot -- he said you have to be very careful with those shots. He said there have been those kinds of problems. I believe last time you questioned it I posted the results from the feline diabetes group. I think 6-7 people answered within a few hours that their cats were diabetic from a steroid treatment. When one of your cats becomes diabetic after one shot and after you spend $4,000 in six months and still watch him go through hell, then come back to me with your feelings about it. Rhonda True. It's often a case of risk analysis. I wonder what percentage of allergy shots cause diabetes? It can't be too high or they wouldn't do it. As Lynne writes, it's best to try to eliminate the cause of the allergy if you can. |
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Cat Scratching Face Raw (Followup)
I would definitiely take him to a different vet's office. Just to be certain
of the problem. -- http://i7.tinypic.com/24g0snn.jpg my baby. Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200701/1 |
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