My cat had nervous type side effects and seemed ill. I gave it up. I have
tried the benadryl on this cat too with no effect.
t
Leslie Lawther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Glad someone brought up Amitriptyline! I have a few very nervous cats and
they were prescribed Amitriptyline. I have taken them off the medication
because it makes them too tired to be nervous! Has anyone ridden out the side
effects to see if they do, in fact, go away after some time?? I always revert
back to the "quality" versus "quantity" - I would not want to live zonked
out....
Leslie =^..^=
On 3/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Medicating with
amitriptyline (sp?) helps nervous cats lots of times. Prozac is also
sometimes used.
As for the FELV vaccine, I don't believe in giving it to adult cats at all.
Healthy
adult cats develop natural immunity as they approach adulthood. The only time I
would
use it were if I had a kitten under 1 year old that I knew was going to be
exposed to
FELV. Then, I would give one shot, and never again. There are no studies that
suggest
that repeated vaccines increase immunity, and in fact, most trials show that
most
vaccines produce immunity for life, or at least for many years (depending on
the
vaccine). (you'll note that us humans don't have to go in for annual smallpox
and
rubella vaccines)
As for rabies, I would not give it more than once every 3 years, and I would
NOT use
an adjuvanted vaccine, so that means it would have to be Merial's Purevax
rabies, as
that is currently the ONLY non-advuvanted rabies vaccine. Of course, you have
your
local and state laws to consider with regards to the rabies vaccine, most places
require it legally.
More info on vaccines can be found at: http://ucat.us/vaccines.html
Phaewryn
http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html
Special Needs Cat Resources
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Leslie =^..^=
To leave the world a better place - whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
or an improved social condition - that is to have succeeded. That only one
life breathed easier because you lived - that is success.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
