Phaewryn,
You shouldn't feel that you have to justify or defend your decisions to this group or to anyone else. Goodness knows you have done much more for this cat and so many others than anyone else would have.You can only do so much and shouldn't berate yourself for reaching your capacity - it
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Well his OWNERS were going to kill him JUST for being FIV+, before I offered his LAST CHANCE to come here to join the FERAL colony OUTSIDE. I am happy to try the medication, a list member (bless you!) is sending me a
Well me personally, I'd rather be caged than dead, as long as your
alive there is hope and a chance, not saying I'd like it but when your
dead ..
Did you ever get my email about medication, it really is a very good
choice for some cats, Cody being one.
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Belinda
happiness is being
I know cats have territorial issues, but I think at the very least Zack
should have the option of changing his thinking or dying. You could
have a communicator talk to him.
I think cats should be allowed to be cats. Who am I to try to go
against their very nature by trying to make them
This is what Cody was getting kitty Prozac for, it worked very well.
It is called Fluoxetine, we tried others first, Amitriptyline, there was
another but I can't remember the name, they all worked to some extent,
but the Fluoxetine was what finally completely stopped the spraying.
I never
Peepers gets 5 mg of prozac daily. Emailed this infoo to Phaeryn off-list but wanted to share it with the group. We stopped ordering the prozac through my vet and started ordering online. I buy the generic 20 mg tablets and cut into quarters. This gives me a 400 day supply for $42.Go to
Well his OWNERS were going to kill him JUST for being FIV+, before I
offered his LAST CHANCE to come here to join the FERAL colony OUTSIDE. I am
happy to try the medication, a list member (bless you!) is sending me a trial of
her cat's prozac to try on Zack, if it works, great, but I can't
Amitriptyline!? Really, what was the cat dosage for that? I get that
already for myself, and it's only $9.00 a 30 day bottle! I wonder if that MIGHT
help Zack's aggression? I could afford that...
Phaewryn
Please adopt a cat from Little Cheetah Cat Rescue!!! http://ucat.us/adopt.html Low cost
Hi Nina,
If you can find a good balance they really aren't sedated, Cody is
pretty laid back and very lazy anyway. I did notice he was what I
thought at the time sleeping a little more, but I'm not so sure now that
that was 100% true. He sleeps a lot now, and if he isn't sleeping he is
Phaewryn,
I feel for you with your dilemma with Zack. I have a traumatized kitty,
I may have mentioned her, (Matilda), the thought of euthanasia has
crossed my mind with her too. If it truly comes to that with Zack,
couldn't you cage him and cover his cage at night? The fence fighting
Something else to consider, which I have done on rare ocassion with good results, is psychiatric medication. One of my own cats iss on Prozac due to brain abnormalities most likely the result of her mother being starved during pregnancy. I'll skip the long story but my vet put Peepers on prozac
Something else to consider, which I have done on rare ocassion with good results, is psychiatric medication. One of my own cats iss on Prozac due to brain abnormalities most likely the result of her mother being starved during pregnancy. I'll skip the long story but my vet put Peepers on prozac
Hi Susan,
I've started to seriously consider pharmaceutical help for my psycho
kitty Matilda. (A good start would be for me to stop calling her
psycho kitty :) ). It will be a last resort and I have to do some
research on it. Someone else mentioned Clomacalm (sp?). Have you ever
heard of
For Peepers, Prozac is not a sedative. It effects serotonin levels in the brain. Her's are haywire anyway. I think of it like lithium given to someone who is bipolar, replacing something that should have been there to start with.Great book on psycho-kitties and their treatment: The Cat Who
Mackenziewas my favorite feral. I see him once a month or so, Zack
scares them all away most of the time. I do know he's alive, but that's about
all I know. Him and Spooky (the bw FIV+ male) seem to have buddied up, as
they appear together when they come. Hopefully that brings them the
The problem is two dominate males in one territory. It's just unnatural.
I'd rather have one normal, well adjusted dominant male cat in the house
(Doobie), than two drugged into submission males (and I would have to drug them
both, as they are equally aggressive to each other). Ithink cats
Try craigslist. Ask for a foster or foster-to-adopt situation. Be honest that he needs an only-cat home butsing his praises -- handsome, great with dogs, etc. -- too. Plan on delivering to his new home so you can do a home inspection at the same time. Require a vet reference. Ask a $20 adoption
Phaerwyn, I certainly respect the depth of your feeling on the
subject, but I think your personal take on the *human* need for physical freedom
is clouding your perceptions of what the CAT would want. Remember that
they're lair animals, so cages judiciously used don't automatically scream
Nina, I sell cat collars that say "Crazy Cat" on them and have images of
psycho cats all over them, LOL! I also have "fat cat" "stinky cat" "princess
cat" and lots others.Crazy cat:http://ucat.us/beastiebands/crazycat.jpg
Doobie wears a "Fat Cat" collar, he doesn't seem too very offended...
lexan... ok, I'll look into that, thanks Karen! I was under the impression
that anything clear was grossly expensive, I guess I was wrong. I have to do
something, cause even thick quilts can't keep Doobie away from the cage when
Zack is in there. Right now I have the mat that my desk chair
Putting Peepers on Prozac was a last resort. When we drove to the vet for her initial evaluation all I could think was how that drive easily could have been for a very different and irreversible purpose. We really had to consider the possibility of euthanizing her -- she was so hyper-defensive
Well, the problem is my apartment, the bathroom is only accessible through
the bedroom, and any cat we've ever locked in there takes to howling all night
and keeps us awake.
If anyone is willing to donate toward the cause, I would be more than
willing to take Zack to the vet for an exam and
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