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Kitty Prozac
My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My
kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. |
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Yes, it is used to decrease anxiety.
Gail "Laura M" wrote in message om... My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. |
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Yes, it is used to decrease anxiety.
Gail "Laura M" wrote in message om... My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. |
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I've not used Prozac on cats, but I've had some success with Feliway
diffusers to promote a general sense of well being/happiness in my herd of cats (four currently). I have one cat, Kahless, who is a bundle of nerves and neuroses normally. What has worked to chill him out w/o making him reall dopy is a product called NutriCalm. http://www.rxvitamins.com/pets/nutricalmcats.asp When he's taken it, he no longer freaks out at every little glance from the other tomcat Uther, or obsess over the 'newbie' Morgana (who's been in the house since last October). He's a bit spaced on the stuff, but not nearly as bad as a 1/2 tab of Elival/amyltryptoline he was getting. The only drawback I've seen with this stuff is it tends to produce a bolus of runny fecal matter which both I and Kahless find distasteful. He will not even bury it! I've found that one capsule every two or three days is about the right dose for him. Keeps him relaxed w/o turning him into a zombie. "Gail" wrote in message ink.net... Yes, it is used to decrease anxiety. Gail "Laura M" wrote in message om... My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. |
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I've not used Prozac on cats, but I've had some success with Feliway
diffusers to promote a general sense of well being/happiness in my herd of cats (four currently). I have one cat, Kahless, who is a bundle of nerves and neuroses normally. What has worked to chill him out w/o making him reall dopy is a product called NutriCalm. http://www.rxvitamins.com/pets/nutricalmcats.asp When he's taken it, he no longer freaks out at every little glance from the other tomcat Uther, or obsess over the 'newbie' Morgana (who's been in the house since last October). He's a bit spaced on the stuff, but not nearly as bad as a 1/2 tab of Elival/amyltryptoline he was getting. The only drawback I've seen with this stuff is it tends to produce a bolus of runny fecal matter which both I and Kahless find distasteful. He will not even bury it! I've found that one capsule every two or three days is about the right dose for him. Keeps him relaxed w/o turning him into a zombie. "Gail" wrote in message ink.net... Yes, it is used to decrease anxiety. Gail "Laura M" wrote in message om... My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. |
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One of my cats takes fluoxetine (which is the generic for prozac) to help
curb his spraying behavior. It doesn't make him a zombie or anything and it has helped. Sue "Laura M" wrote in message om... My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. |
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One of my cats takes fluoxetine (which is the generic for prozac) to help
curb his spraying behavior. It doesn't make him a zombie or anything and it has helped. Sue "Laura M" wrote in message om... My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. |
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Subject: Kitty Prozac
Path: lobby!ngtf-m01.news.aol.com!ngpeer.news.aol.com!feed2.newsrea der.com!news reader.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!prodigy.com!news.glorb.com!postnew s2.google.com!not-for-mail From: (Laura M) Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Date: 19 Jul 2004 17:32:36 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 14 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.116.4.113 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1090283556 26786 127.0.0.1 (20 Jul 2004 00:32:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:32:36 +0000 (UTC) My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Laura M. YOU are a NUT. You're probably on Prozac yourself and think that a 'magic pill' is the answer to all life's woes. Get a life. Get to church or something before you ruin everything and everyone who crosses paths with your miserable life. IBen Getiner A brief note to friends here-abouts Just checking in and not stopping. Hello and goodbye to one and all. |
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"Laura M" wrote in message om... My vet just prescribed prozac (or something like it) for my kitty. My kitty is scratching herself bald. It started, I believe, with allergies this season in March and the vet gave her a cortizone injection at that time. Every 3-4 weeks she'd need another injection to control her scratching herself silly. I thought it was over until yesterday when I noticed bald spots on top of her head, and a huge one on her neck. The vet suggested this prozac to hopefully help her get over this obsessive compulsive disorder of scratching. I've changed her food in the last three months, brush her, and give her vitamins that have primrose oil. Has anyone heard of prozac for kitties??? Hi Laura, Is your vet sure she has a compulsive scratching disorder? maybe she scratching because she is still itchy! If she gets bald patches she couls have eosinophilic granuloma. http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body...allergies.html http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body...allergies.html http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body...granuloma.html This link is about urine spraying but it has info about mood altering drugs and the side effects. http://www.ivis.org/advances/Behavio...r_frm.asp?LA=1 Alison |
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