*Glad someone brought up Amitriptyline! I have a few very nervous cats and they were prescribed Amitriptyline. I have taken them off the medication because it makes them too tired to be nervous! Has anyone ridden out the side effects to see if they do, in fact, go away after some time?? I always revert back to the "quality" versus "quantity" - I would not want to live zonked out....* *Leslie =^..^=*
On 3/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Medicating with amitriptyline (sp?) helps nervous cats lots of times. Prozac is also sometimes used. As for the FELV vaccine, I don't believe in giving it to adult cats at all. Healthy adult cats develop natural immunity as they approach adulthood. The only time I would use it were if I had a kitten under 1 year old that I knew was going to be exposed to FELV. Then, I would give one shot, and never again. There are no studies that suggest that repeated vaccines increase immunity, and in fact, most trials show that most vaccines produce immunity for life, or at least for many years (depending on the vaccine). (you'll note that us humans don't have to go in for annual smallpox and rubella vaccines) As for rabies, I would not give it more than once every 3 years, and I would NOT use an adjuvanted vaccine, so that means it would have to be Merial's Purevax rabies, as that is currently the ONLY non-advuvanted rabies vaccine. Of course, you have your local and state laws to consider with regards to the rabies vaccine, most places require it legally. More info on vaccines can be found at: http://ucat.us/vaccines.html Phaewryn http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Special Needs Cat Resources
-- Leslie =^..^= To leave the world a better place - whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or an improved social condition - that is to have succeeded. That only one life breathed easier because you lived - that is success. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
