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Post by loveshoes on Apr 24, 2012 8:26:01 GMT -5
Hi loveshoes. My kitty is currently not taking probiotics. He took them on and off for various health reasons. Lately we've been giving him a break because he has gone through so much. Have you discussed probiotics with your veterinarian? HI Paint! Yes, I discussed last night with our vet and she was totally on board with them. I got some samples from the pet food place we buy from who is strictly grain free/homeopathic items.
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Post by painttheseconds on Apr 24, 2012 9:41:47 GMT -5
Hi Loveshoes! Glad you discussed probiotics with your vet and that she is on board. I hope they help your kitty. Since I work at a vet clinic I've seen some awful situation where people just decide to give their animals a new supplement or something over the counter and it ends up being a big mess. I always remind others including myself to talk to the vet about it first. Our animals have sensitive systems just like we do sometimes.
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Post by loveshoes on Apr 24, 2012 10:59:28 GMT -5
Hi!
Yeah, I made sure to fax over all of the paperwork on the products and she looked them over and had no problems with any of them. I asked about d-mannose and she said the other 2 she felt better about. I hate to ask but what do people try to do for feline UTI’s that make it worse? I feel good about this company, they are FDA approved and offer a full 1 year satisfaction guarantee so if she gets another UTI, at least my money gets refunded so it’s got to work! I was under the impression that the probiotics are a good thing, do you mind sharing why you took your kitty off of them? I remember reading in old posts of all the trouble you had with him – maybe it didn’t agree with his tummy?
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Post by painttheseconds on Apr 24, 2012 17:44:16 GMT -5
As long as your vet is on board with what you are trying I think that's great. What I see most often at the vet clinic I work at is that people give animals medications they take or have found on a website that isn't reputable and then their animal gets sick. When my kitty was having issues I had him on glucoseamine for awhile that I mixed with his food. It helped a lot. My kitty wasn't always getting UTI's. He also had cystitis. Cystitis isn't something that can be helped with antibitoics so I had to do a bunch of revamping around the house and it seems to have worked. If you would like me to give you any suggestions please feel free to PM me. Cystitis and UTI's are different so I think following your vets advice will be the most helpful.
My kitty has a lot of health issues so my vet and I tailor to what is best for his needs. I took him off the probiotics because he also has a food allergy along with IBD so we didn't want to overload his system. Right now he is on special food and has been off steroids for about a month now. He's doing wonderful he has just needed a lot of special care. He's the best cat ever and worth of every penny I've spent on him.
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Post by Heather on Apr 27, 2012 10:27:38 GMT -5
Jenaya, don't feel bad about not being able to afford vet care. Lots of people can't, but there are ways around it. Many vets will work out a payment plan with you, especially if you have been going there for a while and you are reliable. There is also CareCredit, which most vets have applications for in their offices. It's a very low interest credit card that can only be used for medical & veterinary expenses. You can also try asking around at local shelters (they may not be able to lend you money, but often can direct you to places that can), or look for things like this online: www.aahahelpingpets.org/grant_guidelines.htmlI was going to send this as a PM, but I wanted to have the info available for other people who needed it as well. Like Cherry said, there is also pet insurance. Personally, I prefer putting money into savings every month instead of buying pet insurance, but your financial situation is probably different from mine.
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Post by MustangGtGirl on Apr 29, 2012 14:20:31 GMT -5
I posted this in the cats thread and was informed that this thread could help me. Thank you in advance.
OK I have a question maybe you can help me out with. My cat NEMO is 8 years old and a total mamma's boy (He hates my husband LOL) he has always slept on top of me all night since he was a baby. I live in a co - op and 3 years ago my building went on fire at 5AM no fire alarms went off we were dragged out by the fire dept into the snow and our building up in flames and he was trapped inside the whole time. We couldn't find him to get him and and the fire dept tore my co -op apart looking for him. The fire missed burning down my unit by one wall. i was screaming for him hoping he would run out. Once they got the fire out they let me in asap. My husband threw up my bed mattress and there I saw his eyes inside the mattress. He dug a hole in the mattress and hid inside. I rushed him to the vet and he was fine. Thank God...
The last 3 months he climes off of my legs every night at 3AM and meows at the top of his lungs until I get up and carry him back onto the bed. It's the same time every night. If I call him he doesn't stop I have to get out of bed and get him. I don't know why he is doing this do you think he can have anxiety from the fire. Any suggestions???
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Post by loveshoes on Apr 29, 2012 14:41:55 GMT -5
Aw, I'm sorry to hear that. I think pets can have post truamatic stress. Many of my friends have taken in rescue animals and many were abused etc and they never forget and their behaviors reflect that. I'd check into this pet alive company that I bought my supplements from, they have some for stress I think I saw but of course, clear it with your vet first. Oh, just checked it's called pet calm. I used to buy these plug in's from dr. foster and smith which emitted a pheromone ( sp ) that would calm one of my cats that used to pee ( sent her back to live with my mom after that ) but it worked while she was with us. It was called feliway. Animals can pick up on our stress as well so if you're anxious they totally feed of that as well.
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Post by MustangGtGirl on Apr 29, 2012 14:55:15 GMT -5
Thank you I have to look into that. he is my first cat and like my child so I want to help him I just don't know what is wrong.
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Post by loveshoes on Apr 29, 2012 15:04:04 GMT -5
Sounds like stress to me. Have you asked the vet about it? Did they run a complete panel on him after the fire to make sure his lungs were OK? Always remember too, that male cats are prone to those UTI's and crystals as well so always watch for those kinds of things, totally unrealated but figured it should mention it.
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Post by MustangGtGirl on Apr 29, 2012 15:24:34 GMT -5
Did not know about UTI's at first when he started this I thought ok he just wants me up to play but then it became every night. I have to make a vet appt.
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Post by Heather on Apr 29, 2012 19:47:40 GMT -5
Mustang, definitely make a vet appt to make sure there is nothing physical going on. My guess though is that physically he will be healthy, and it is a learned behavior. Cats usually learn very quickly. It could be that the first time he did it was to play or because he was spooked or any number of things, but now he knows that doing it will get him attention. They don't do it to be spiteful or mean in any way, they just don't understand that humans sleep a little differently than cats, and that we have things we need to do when we wake up--not just play with toy mice and go back to sleep!
My vet says it takes a cat about a month usually to relearn a behavior. I had to teach my cat to accept sleeping in a cage, and while it was REALLY rough for a while (he would cry constantly), it did eventually work. Is it possible for you to lock him out of your bedroom until he stops this behavior?
While I absolutely agree that animals can have PTSD (lots of dogs, in particular, who are in a shelter for a very long time end up with serious behavioral issues), I'm not sure that this is the problem in Nemo's case. Unless he smelled smoke or something else spooked him the first time, I don't think it is. Of course, it can be very hard to pinpoint the culprit if he did get scared. You know your cat better than anyone, does his crying seem like he's terrified or does it seem like he's excited and wants to play? Especially the first time it happened.
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Post by MustangGtGirl on Apr 30, 2012 14:28:31 GMT -5
Heather, This makes allot of sense. He is not crying in a bad way. I think locking him out of the room will bother me more then him because I am so used to having him sleep on my legs. I am going to give it a try and see if it works. Thank you so much.
Kimmie
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Post by Wendy on Oct 13, 2012 20:08:49 GMT -5
I have a kitty named Shira. On edit: Hey, it worked! Attachments:
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Post by willow82 on Nov 3, 2012 17:36:04 GMT -5
I have three kitties, and am a foster cat mom.
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Post by terceltina on Sept 2, 2014 1:08:59 GMT -5
I have 3 cats. They don't all get along yet, it's been 3 years. Two of them get kinda possessive of me. When I got out of surgery they fought over who would sleep with me. The third cat, she is great. She just brought me a bug to eat, and when I wasn't hungry enough to eat it, she thought I was okay and left. Attachments:
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