Beckie,
What a great letter and bit of information...and you
handled your vet perfectly! Good for you Beckie!
I wonder how many vets peek in on this list? If I were
you, I'd seriously be looking for a new vet, but not
sure if you live in a larger or smaller community?
Sometimes we are just stuck with what we get. I know
when I decided to break ties with my vet, because he
continued to vaccinate my cats between the shoulder
blades, even after one of my cats ended up with
lump...that concerned him enough surgery was
scheduled...
The lump went away in the nick of time. Also, his
first impulse was to put down my healthy, FeLV+ little
girl, I called around and quizzed vet techs at other
clinics with questions like : Where does this vet ,
that vet, vaccinate...and who is best with
cats...After reading up online I began looking for a
vet that agreed with the recent research pertaining to
cats...
My new vet , went into this whole explanation about
why she vaccinates along the upper side of the
ribcage. She told me it is because if a cancer
develops in a vaccination site it is the
easiest/safest place to remove it. My old vet told me
he was not concerned ,because only one or two cats out
of 10,000 cats, might developed a cancerous tumor at a
vaccination site.
According to my current vet,the site between the
shoulder blades is very difficult to remove a tumor
from. She said the vertebras are scraped somehow in
the process...That's what she said...
For where I live, I have about the best cat- friendly
vet I can find.
There really is no excuse for withholding knowledge
from you that might have helped you. As desperate as
you have been to help your cats and for all your
heartaches...Her answer to you was just lame. Her
answer reflected everything wrong with vets: the
doctor, your animal for profit issue, while neglecting
to really want to do everything in her power to make
your cats well. With a vet, with that attitude, one
has to wonder how far she might go, just for the sake
of the dollar...Pretty scary...
.I'd never heard of pill pockets before finding these
guys...I have one cat that is impossible to get a pill
down, no matter what I try. He is my 13 year old;can't
trick him...He gets tapeworms, sorry to admit, from
years of bad habits. He has to be wormed every 2-3
months. He can often spit the pills out and always
foams at the mouth...It is a struggle. I'll see if
Pill Pockets work for him...
Thanks, Glenda
--- Beckie McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, Friday, I went and got the "Pill Pockets".
> (Chicken Flavored, my
> cats hate seafood, go figure), Went home, wrapped
> the Benedryl in it,
> annnnnd......WA LA! Down it went! I was SO
> happy!!!
>
> The lady at the pet store also told me about these
> bath wipes so I got a
> pack of those. They're like baby wipes, and you
> just rub them down, and
> it helps to moisturize their skin, and his coat is
> so soft! I just wipe
> him down once a day, (which he LOVES by the way).
> Also, they have aloe,
> so that helps with his scratching. Amazingly
> enough, the lady at the
> pet store was more helpful than the vet! When I got
> home, and saw how
> everything worked, I IMMEDIATELY got on the phone
> with the vet and
> ripped her a new one. I wanted to know why she
> hadn't told me about
> these products especially since I voiced to her MANY
> times how bad the
> pilling was going, and how bad his skin was. Hell,
> she SAW it! Her
> response? We don't endorse other products than what
> we sell here. Well
> I proceeded to tell her that when she became a vet
> she took an oath to
> care for an ailing animal NO MATTER WHAT, and even
> though they don't
> "endorse" those products, she STILL could have
> suggested them. I told
> her if it was THAT big of a deal maybe THEY should
> start getting wipes,
> and pill pockets there to "ENDORSE" so that other
> people and their
> animals don't have to go through what we've been. I
> told her that I
> would NEVER be coming back to her, and I WOULD be
> filing a report with
> the better business bureau, and ANYONE who asks me
> for a vet, I will
> them to go ANYWHERE but there. I was HOT!!!!
>
>
>
> Thanks again guys!
>
> Beckie
>
>
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