For Joy and other people who cats with cancer

You need to go to www.cat-world.com/au and click on the article on catnip.

Cats that have had cancer who had catnip added to their diet had a higher rate of remission. I have have been raising cats for over 50 years and have seen some good results using catnip. I even use it when taking my cat to the vet. It seems to calm them down.

Jack G.

On 6/12/2014 4:29 PM, Jack G. wrote:
You need to go to www.cat-world.com/au and click on the article on catnip.

Cats that have had cancer who had catnip added to their diet had a higher rate of remission. I have have been raising cats for over 50 years and have seen some good results using catnip. I even use it when taking my cat to the vet. It seems to calm them down.

Jack G.


Thank you. I'll give it a try. Of course, the trick is getting him to
eat it. I have some catnip flavored treats, and he usually ignores them.

Joy

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On Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:20:43 PM UTC-7, Joy wrote:
On 6/12/2014 4:29 PM, Jack G. wrote:

You need to go to www.cat-world.com/au and click on the article on catnip.



Cats that have had cancer who had catnip added to their diet had a higher rate of remission. I have have been raising cats for over 50 years and have seen some good results using catnip. I even use it when taking my cat to the vet. It seems to calm them down.



Jack G.





Thank you. I'll give it a try. Of course, the trick is getting him to

eat it. I have some catnip flavored treats, and he usually ignores them.



Joy



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I use a 1/4 of a tsp of fresh catnip chopped fine and put on the bottom
of my cat's bowl and then add the wet cat food. It will take some time but I am hoping for the best and your cat gets well.

On 6/13/2014 6:41 AM, Jack G. wrote:
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:20:43 PM UTC-7, Joy wrote:
On 6/12/2014 4:29 PM, Jack G. wrote:

You need to go to www.cat-world.com/au and click on the article on catnip.



Cats that have had cancer who had catnip added to their diet had a higher rate of remission. I have have been raising cats for over 50 years and have seen some good results using catnip. I even use it when taking my cat to the vet. It seems to calm them down.



Jack G.





Thank you. I'll give it a try. Of course, the trick is getting him to

eat it. I have some catnip flavored treats, and he usually ignores them.



Joy



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I use a 1/4 of a tsp of fresh catnip chopped fine and put on the bottom
of my cat's bowl and then add the wet cat food. It will take some time but I am hoping for the best and your cat gets well.


Thank you. I'll reserve that information for the future. At the
moment, Waffles isn't eating wet food, and I don't have access to fresh
catnip.

He spends most of the time hiding, and seems to be miserable. I have an
appointment to take him to the vet this afternoon. It may be his last
appointment.

joy

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"Joy" wrote in message
news
Thank you. I'll reserve that information for the future. At the moment,
Waffles isn't eating wet food, and I don't have access to fresh catnip.

He spends most of the time hiding, and seems to be miserable. I have an
appointment to take him to the vet this afternoon. It may be his last
appointment.

OMG, I wasn't expecting him to go downhill so soon.
I know you will consider your decision very carefully and do the best you
think for him, whether to carry on or not.
If the worst comes to the worst, I am thinking about that decision and know
how difficult I find it myself.
However if he is hiding and miserable I suspect there is nothing much left
in regard to medical treatment or your vet would say so.
Didn't you adopt him and give a good life? IIRC, yes you did. But
sometimes they do not live quite as long as we would like. It's not your
fault.

On 6/13/2014 3:24 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
"Joy" wrote in message
news
Thank you. I'll reserve that information for the future. At the moment,
Waffles isn't eating wet food, and I don't have access to fresh catnip.

He spends most of the time hiding, and seems to be miserable. I have an
appointment to take him to the vet this afternoon. It may be his last
appointment.

OMG, I wasn't expecting him to go downhill so soon.
I know you will consider your decision very carefully and do the best you
think for him, whether to carry on or not.
If the worst comes to the worst, I am thinking about that decision and know
how difficult I find it myself.
However if he is hiding and miserable I suspect there is nothing much left
in regard to medical treatment or your vet would say so.
Didn't you adopt him and give a good life? IIRC, yes you did. But
sometimes they do not live quite as long as we would like. It's not your
fault.

Thank you. I didn't expect it to happen so fast either, but he was
miserable and so was I. He was avoiding me, and it broke my heart that
he didn't trust me any more. He did let me hold him in my lap and pet
him at the vet's office for a while.

I know it was best for him, but it hurts!

Joy

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"Joy" wrote in message
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I know it was best for him, but it hurts!

Joy

I know, as do most of us here and I admire you for not letting him go on for
too long. I've sometimes been guilty of that but hindsight is a wonderful
thing that I don't have.
I will regret until the end of my life not having KFC put down a week or two
earlier. She was failing, and getting confused and I was coming to the
decision to let her go, then I got taken into hospital as an emergency.
Without me she would not stay in the house, she went out looking for me, and
we all know what happened.
I should probably have done it when she went missing earlier that year - and
went 2 doors away claiming she was lost. They took her in, and because they
thought she was a sick kitten (she was very small) they took her to the vet
(not mine) who told them she was a very old lady. I got her back then by
putting posters up on lamp posts.

I should have realised then about her confusion and it might be time but I
didn't want to give up on her.
The result of this was she was snatched from the street by the RSPCA and put
down and I wasn't even able to get her ashes back- she was probably cremated
with all the other dogs and cats that no-one cares about.
I will never, ever, get over this. She should have been buried under a tree
in my garden.
and this is why, Joy, you did the right thing.

On 6/15/2014 9:35 AM, Christina Websell wrote:
"Joy" wrote in message
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I know it was best for him, but it hurts!

Joy

I know, as do most of us here and I admire you for not letting him go on for
too long. I've sometimes been guilty of that but hindsight is a wonderful
thing that I don't have.
I will regret until the end of my life not having KFC put down a week or two
earlier. She was failing, and getting confused and I was coming to the
decision to let her go, then I got taken into hospital as an emergency.
Without me she would not stay in the house, she went out looking for me, and
we all know what happened.
I should probably have done it when she went missing earlier that year - and
went 2 doors away claiming she was lost. They took her in, and because they
thought she was a sick kitten (she was very small) they took her to the vet
(not mine) who told them she was a very old lady. I got her back then by
putting posters up on lamp posts.

I should have realised then about her confusion and it might be time but I
didn't want to give up on her.
The result of this was she was snatched from the street by the RSPCA and put
down and I wasn't even able to get her ashes back- she was probably cremated
with all the other dogs and cats that no-one cares about.
I will never, ever, get over this. She should have been buried under a tree
in my garden.
and this is why, Joy, you did the right thing.

Thank you. I understand why you are so upset about that.

I shut myself down every time I start wondering whether I should have
put Nanki-Poo through five weeks of radiation treatments, since he only
lived about another five months after the treatments ended. It doesn't
help, and it only makes me feel worse than I already do.

Joy

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On 6/15/2014 6:23 PM, Joy wrote:
I shut myself down every time I start wondering whether I should have
put Nanki-Poo through five weeks of radiation treatments, since he only
lived about another five months after the treatments ended. It doesn't
help, and it only makes me feel worse than I already do.

Joy

I can only imagine how you are feeling. I only ever went through this
with my little dog, Sampson, but it hurt hurt hurt.

Continued purrs, Joy.

Jill

"Joy" wrote in message
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On 6/15/2014 9:35 AM, Christina Websell wrote:
"Joy" wrote in message
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I know it was best for him, but it hurts!

Joy

I know, as do most of us here and I admire you for not letting him go on
for
too long. I've sometimes been guilty of that but hindsight is a
wonderful
thing that I don't have.
I will regret until the end of my life not having KFC put down a week or
two
earlier. She was failing, and getting confused and I was coming to the
decision to let her go, then I got taken into hospital as an emergency.
Without me she would not stay in the house, she went out looking for me,
and
we all know what happened.
I should probably have done it when she went missing earlier that year -
and
went 2 doors away claiming she was lost. They took her in, and because
they
thought she was a sick kitten (she was very small) they took her to the
vet
(not mine) who told them she was a very old lady. I got her back then by
putting posters up on lamp posts.

I should have realised then about her confusion and it might be time but
I
didn't want to give up on her.
The result of this was she was snatched from the street by the RSPCA and
put
down and I wasn't even able to get her ashes back- she was probably
cremated
with all the other dogs and cats that no-one cares about.
I will never, ever, get over this. She should have been buried under a
tree
in my garden.
and this is why, Joy, you did the right thing.

Thank you. I understand why you are so upset about that.

I shut myself down every time I start wondering whether I should have put
Nanki-Poo through five weeks of radiation treatments, since he only lived
about another five months after the treatments ended. It doesn't help,
and it only makes me feel worse than I already do.

Joy

But if there is a chance, you do it, don't you? If it helps you not feeling
so guilty I would have gone the same route for Nanki-Poo.
The fact that he only lived another 5 months was not your fault and you had
no idea about it.. It might well have been a lot more.
I still feel slightly guilty that I put Pearl whippet through an operation
to have her spleen removed when it burst for no apparent reason. 8 months
later her front leg broke when she got out of bed through bone cancer which
turned out to be the primary cancer.
I did what I thought best at the time. Had I known what would happen, I
would have let her go. But I thought I was doing the best for her,giving
her a chance.
You have done the best for your Boy. Sometimes we cannot save them.

Tweed