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| 3857.1 | the vet will know | TYGON::WILDE | Ask yourself..am I a happy cow? | Tue Jul 31 1990 18:44 | 5 |
| your vet would surely be able to determine that. If no shot is possible,
I know there are oral meds that work...no fun for you or the cat, but they
do work. Keep fighting those fleas...
Good luck!
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| 3857.2 | | WR2FOR::CORDESBRO_JO | set home/cat_max=infinity | Tue Jul 31 1990 23:50 | 9 |
| Another interesting thing, the Droncit shots cost you more than
if the vet sold you the Droncit tablet to give yourself, much more.
The cycle for tapeworms is something like 14 days, so your cat will
keep getting them until the fleas are under control. Ask the vet
about the tablets, they will cost you less, and shouldn't require
another vet visit (since you were just in for tapes a month ago).
Jo
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| 3857.3 | Recognition! | CHEFS::SIFTS | | Wed Aug 01 1990 06:48 | 4 |
| Droncit tablets - we have those in the UK too! I use them for the cats
and the dog. Didn't know Droncit shots existed.
Helen
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| 3857.4 | | BIGHUN::THOMAS | The Devon Dumpling | Wed Aug 01 1990 12:57 | 11 |
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I'm in the UK, and one of my cats gets the worm shots......the
tablets are very hard to get down him, then he rushes outside to
eat grass and make himself sick!
The other takes the tablets with very little problem.
He has the shots twice a year, I have not had any cause for him to get
them more often.
Heather
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| 3857.5 | | WR2FOR::CORDESBRO_JO | set home/cat_max=infinity | Wed Aug 01 1990 13:04 | 12 |
| It is much better for the cat to be wormed more often than
to be allowed to harbor parasites. Of course, in a perfect world,
we would just eliminate the root of the problem, the fleas. I know
how hard that can be, cause I have been working on it constantly
for months. My own cats are being wormed for tapeworm fairly often
with no ill effects. Of course, I do not routinely worm for tapeworm,
I wait until I find segments before giving them the medication.
If your cat can take pills, then you can save yourself some money.
Jo
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| 3857.6 | wrap crushed pill in canned food... | IOWAIT::WILDE | Ask yourself..am I a happy cow? | Wed Aug 01 1990 13:23 | 6 |
| pilling a reluctant cat can be easier if you crush the pill and place the
powder in the middle of a small clump of his/her favorite canned food...
when you stuff THAT down the throat, you will get a more cooperative
swallow... I generally mix the powder with a tiny bit of food, and then
wrap that in some more food....my reluctant pill-taker bolts canned food
so fast that he never knows he is getting the meds.
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| 3857.7 | Chicken | CHEFS::SIFTS | | Thu Aug 02 1990 08:37 | 9 |
| I have only once managed to get a worm tablet down Oliver without an
argument. I wrapped it in a greasy piece of chicken, gave him some
undoctored chicken first, gave chicken to the dog too (so Ollie thought
he might miss out), then gave Ollie the piece with the tablet. He ate
it so quickly that he never noticed the tablet. And this is a cat that
gets in such a state if you try to give him worm tablets normally that
he foams at the mouth and throws up. (This is also the cat that has
just learned, at the age of nine and a half years, how to catch mice.
But that's another story ...)
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