I live on a farm in Eastern Nebraska, we keep a group of cats to keep the mice down. They have contacted an upper respiratory infection.
I have been giving them Amoxicilian, it has helped some of them but they continue to have sneezing and runny noses.
I have lost some of them when I suspect their lungs fill up.
Is there a vaccine I can give them to cure this problem?
Thank you,
Norma
Hi……….. am the director of a small no kill animal shelter in Seneca,IL. We have a number of cats go through our care and we have been waiting for a recall like this.
We have not fed these foods to our shelter pets but have noticed a very high number of neurological cats this past year ranging from paralysis to seizures. Have not been able to find a cause or a relation. Many have come in this way, some have been with us for a time, some have never been here we just know the owners. To this point our vets are baffled.
I do have to say that longer than a year before any recalls were made the last time we went through the same thing with kidney failure in many cats. Many lives were lost then and again we had not fed the foods on the recall lists.
Brenda
Thanks for your alert – at the moment I have a question for you – my dog has scabies mites – what is the best otc or rx to give him? thanks for your reply –
Adele
Our 10 year old bouvier had surgery in late September to have a couple decayed teeth removed, a general teeth cleaning and two small lumps in her hind quarter removed (biopsy indicated they were calcified fat tissue). Post surgery she was fed soft food until her gums healed (canned food).
After 14 days I tried to get her back on her dried food and began by mixing it with soft (canned), but she ate very little and then after another week chose not to eat dog food at all.
During the offering of soft food and the reintroduction of dried food, I noticed that she would vomit a few hours after consumption.
After those few weeks of trying to find something she would eat and significant weight loss (20 lbs since surgery) she began to lose hair particularly on her elbows and no new growth was happening in the site of the surgery. I began to make her home made dog food, combo of boiled chicken, rice, oatmeal, carrots, broccoli of which she willingly ate and no experienced no vomiting after eating. She has been on this diet for about 6 weeks now and she has gained back some weight but the hair loss has progressed with patchiness on her sides.
She is easily stressed and she has been very needy since the surgery (wants to be with me all the time, follows me around the house).
I should mention that we have another dog in the home and she has a great coat and appetite.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Sharon
My 14 year old kitty has been diagnosed with early stage renal failure.
The vet has prescribed several foods, none of which she will eat. She did eat a couple for a few days, but after that said “no way”. I got tiredof starving my cat.
She has always preferred fish based foods. I have checked the ingredients on several and compared them to the ones suggested by the vet. It seems that the most important thing is to stay away from dry foods, which all have a high concentration of Crude Protein. I have found several Friskies Buffet Indoor Cat foods that she really likes. They are similar to the prescription foods in the percentage of crude protein, but are all lower on fat content.
Are the Friskies OK for her? Isn’t the moisture content and percentage of crude protein the most important ingredients?
After being out for less than 2 hours today, I came home to find that
my older cat’s (Carlton’s) lower canine had been nearly knocked out
during an obvious tussle with my other, younger cat.
The tooth is sitting sideways (facing outward), but still attached
within the gum. It is obviously very loose and Carlton keeps shaking
his head and flicking his tongue against it because of the tooth’s
awkward position. He’s hungry and wants to eat, but can’t manage it
and sadly walks away. There has been no external bleeding, but the gum
line around the tooth is purple and slightly swollen.
I plan on contacting a veterinarian who specializes in dentistry in
the a.m. (of course this happened on a Sunday!) and am hoping the the
tooth can be saved via a root canal. BUT, will it be too late if I
wait until tomorrow.
Will the tooth have to be pulled out (if I wait too long)? I am hesitant to bring him to an emergency hospital tonight, since I would rather deal with a doctor who specializes in
dentistry.
Kathy
I administered Frontline plus to my dog (11 lbs) first treatment, three days ago, he has been to the vet twice with diarrea/vomitting, red spots.
The vomiting has stopped still has diarrhea and now he will not eat and just lays around tail down.
My dog was prescribed Metoclopramide 5mg w tablets twice daily and Amforol #3 1/2 tablet twice a day.
I really don’t know if I should give him more medicine, he has had so much already.
Do you have any other advice for me?
Karen
My dog had a recent rabies vaccination.
He is now vomiting,shaking and panting, two episodes this week.
Could this be from the rabies vaccination?
Joyce
One of my feral cats has what looks like a burn wound on its right rear leg. Is there anything I can do for it being its a feral cat and will RARELY let me touch her.
Is there anything I can put in the food to help? Would spraying Neosporin on it harm her if she licks it. I am just worried it will get infected and the possibility of her dying.
I have attached a couple of pics, I apologize if they are huge.
Ebbi
I absolutely don’t know what to do right now.
I have this terrible flea problem, and I have done everything. I vacuumed, shampooed the carpets, put down that carpet sprinkle stuff, used the in house spray, bombed every room of the house, sprayed outside, and frontlined my animals…
Then my friend brought her dog over, and now he is covered in fleas.
One of my cats and my dog seem fine now. But my other poor cat is having some sort of reaction or something. At first I put a flea collar on him and then noticed that all the hair was missing on the bottom part of his neck. So, I took it off and did the frontline. He has no fleas, but now he is missing all the hair on his chest and one of his legs.
I feel like a terrible person. I feel so bad for him, but I don’t know what to do.
Nichole
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