Re: wormers--- coccidia

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In a message dated 10/7/05 2:52:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Baycox was developed  for pigeons...but I really appreciate the warning. Rescue is soooo hard when they are on 10 day albon and sometimes by time I get them (from the pound) they have had it so long its past dangerous Sorry Karen, NOT reading my mail "in order rec'd". Pigeons, huh? That;s interesting.   And, I TOTALLY agree w/ you about Albon...repeated treatments, and often no progress. Then, when you "rescue" the poor cat, it has suffered so much from the coccidia, which wasn't evn "touched" with the Albon treatment!!!   WE had an incident at our shelter where we were treating an entire area w/ Albon, for supposedly coccidia. An internist was called in, and amazingly, the parasite was "spirochetes" (ever heard of those?) Anyway, treatment was switched to "Erythromycin* ~ *NOTE: For cats it MUST be specially formulated in liquid form,(PILLS WILL NOT work & due to their "coating, can NOT be used in compounding, or we could have compounded elixir ourselves!!!), treatment dosage depends on wt., and has to be repeated TID . I found this course a "bit" extreme, merely having personnel on hand (MUST be administered EVERY 8 HOURS!!, and NOT all pharmacies are able to compound this ~~~)   I came away from this "study" w/ very mixed feelings, NOT all cats benefitted and personally, I think there HAS to be a BETTER way for treating the numerous VARITEIES of parasites encountered in catteries, shelters, etc.   BIG PHARMA not only has it's TOTAL CONTROL/MONOPOLY over human drugs, they are also running rampant with veterinary drugs... HOW MANY LIFES DO THEY "JEOPARDIZE" BECAUSE OF THE POWER THEY HOLD OVER  ALL OF US, ANIMALS INCLUDED??? Something needs to be done, SOON,  but I'll leave this subject open for debate on a diff. thread!   Patti