RE: OT-need advise

[catatonya]

They drew from her leg.

Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Do you remember what part of her body your vet drew blood from?  My vet does it from under the chin area – which sort of makes it difficult to cover her completely with a towel, I thought ---

 

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I trapped my feral by putting canned food in carriers.  All the cats went in to eat, and finally she did too and I closed the door behind her.  This worked several times over the years.  I didn't take her in to the vet every year.

 

When I got to the vet's, they just threw a towel over her, kept her covered and were able to draw blood, vaccinate, etc.... without sedating her..........

 

And she was VERY feral.  When she got sick last year and I had to catch her and couldn't get her to go for the feeding idea she bit me very badly twice.

 

Still, once I caught her the vet was able to handle her at the office without sedation.

 

tonya

Cherie A Gabbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I had a very feral kitty and we used a long net to catch her to sedate her then she freaked out and had a heart attack, after the shot instead of mellowing it just plain freaked her out, and killed her.

Nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

When we were taking Gypsy in for her tests she was still very feral.  We tried to dose her with a sedative to calm her enough to put her in a carrier.  She was so drunk that we thought it would be easy.  Not so.  It seemed like her being that drunk only made her more upset.  She was fighting so hard that we were very lucky she didn't hurt herself, (my poor husband did get bit!).  I think not being in control of her body made her even more anxious about the capture.  The next time we took her to the vet, we didn't sedate her.  It was actually easier to capture her, and she didn't try to bite either of us.  I would either knock her out with enough medication to keep her sedated until they do the blood work, (ask your vet), or use the Feliway and Rescue Remedy to help calm her.  If Buddha is as feral as it sounds, and because she's been through so much lately, I'd think about having a house-call vet come.  Give her the RR, (you can use it like a transdermal on the  inside tip of her ear, don't get it in her ear canal), put her somewhere that's been heavily sprayed with Feliway and wait for her to be calm.  Then have the vet sedate her, then take the blood.  That will save her the stress of a car ride and having to go to the vet's office.  Just my 2 cents.
Nina

Hideyo Yamamoto wrote:

I need an advise from you – I am planning to take Buddha (squeekie) for blood test to make sure that everything is ok before I merge her with mine – I can pet her, but she is not completely socialized – and here’s a sort of my dilemma as to how to get blood out of her – One way to anthetize (?)  her first so that she doesn’t have to be awake when they do that, and another thing is to give her drowsy drug (called Acepromazine) to make her bit sleepy prior to the appointment (risk: it can cause a seizure) – so I am not sure what to do – any suggestions – I really hate to do either – but also I hate the idea of stressing her out trying to get a blood out of her, and it might not even be possible.