Susan, actually, who's on this list, knows more about it than I do.
But as I understand the way we've used it, was to give it daily for
about a week, then taper off till you find a point where they're
showing symptoms again. Course this was for inappropriate urination,
so a little different maybe. I recall one cat that settled in with 1
pill a week after the tapering-off, a very workable time period.
I've heard that Prozac is effective, but we've never used it -
anybody know about Prozac for cats?
Gloria
On Mar 14, 2007, at 5:50 PM, catatonya wrote:
My cat had nervous type side effects and seemed ill. I gave it
up. I have tried the benadryl on this cat too with no effect.
t
Leslie Lawther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
