RE: Flavia further update

[catatonya]

Another thing you might do is wash all the bedding in the room they're all in to get 'out' their familiar smells so they may be more amiable to Flavia's antiseptic smell.........

 

tonya

Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

My opinion might be biased (I have a bad experience in the past)– my personal policy has been that I don’t leave my cats or dogs for that matter especially, if they are feral at the vet unless I have to do so absolutely – they often times discount the impact of stress caused by “being there” – my experience is – unless they have to be on IV or something and that’s critical to their treatment and has to be monitored, my animals recover better at home.  – if there are something I can do myself – I will do so or if not, ask them to come to my house and do so.

I reinforced my belief when I took in George, too – they eat better and they can sleep better when they are at the place the know it’s home – sometimes, you can’ control the situation at the vet, there are always some noise, emergency, people talking loud..etc..they get so nervous, but they don’t know that is stressing the animals as they are busy taking care of their appointments – and these things will add to the stress which will effect their recovery.   I was reading someone’s letter on line the other day about a cat getting transfusion (I don’t think this was a feLV cat) at the vet, and she brought the cat back to the vet next day, and she left her there for additional check ups – sometime during the process, something happened to, and the kitty stopped breathing and couldn’t bring her back – they did not know exactly what