Arwen

[nekosensei]

On Wednesday, doomsey and I took both cats to the vet. arwenmonster has been more bitchy than normal. She has been growling and hissing at both doomsey and I whenever we try to pick her up. She is better about letting us pet her though. We also brought in cosettemonster since was due in for her shots anyway.

At any rate, the vet concluded that she was probably being more aggressive since her chronic sinus issues have been flaring up. This time, she gave us a human antibiotic called azithromycin, which we had to get filled at a drug store in Roselle since it's a human medication. Said drug store does a lot of business with veterinarians since they have equipment in back that can prepare smaller doses of medicines. When I was picking up arwenmonster's prescription, I was in line behind a lady who was getting thyroid medication for her cat. At any rate, the vet decided to go this route since she was able to successfully treat another cat with a similar problem using this drug. arwenmonster does sound more stuffed up than usual, so I hope this makes her feel better soon. doomsey was petting her this morning and noticed that she is more likely to swat at people if you touch her back so we're also wondering if it's back issues that is setting her off. I guess that, if the medications don't make a difference, we'll take her to the vet again and have her check out her back. It's frustrating dealing with sick cats because a) they often try to hide it from you when they're not feeling well and b) they can't tell you what's the matter.

The vet also decided to draw blood to see if that showed anything. So...they took arwenmonster in back...and after listening to much yowling, screaming, and hissing, they returned with a very pissed off and worn-out cat. Did I mention that arwenmonster never cooperates at the vet's office? There's a reason why they haven't done any blood work on her since 2002! Because arwenmonster was fighting them so much, they were only able to draw one of the vials of blood that they needed, but that was enough. They were able to test it to see if she had any problems with her thyroid, kidneys, etc. The other vial would have been used to check white blood cell counts I think. Yesterday, I got a call from the vet, and she said that her numbers were fine. She did have slightly high cholesterol, but it wasn't high enough to justify doing anything about it. And quite personally, I don't want to play around with food right now seeing as half of it is being recalled nowadays.

doomsey and I are also talking about taking arwenmonster to see this particular vet from now on. After watching her deal with both cats, I noticed that she does tend to work better with cats (the one we usually make an appointment with is more of a dog person). She seems to do a better job handling arwenmonster, who is quite the handful. The vet tech was really on the ball. We noticed that, this time, they put a towel over her during the exam, and that helped settle her down. The other vet we take her to, although she is very good, tends to struggle with her more.

Comments

[pookzsilla.livejournal.com]

you should switch both cats to an all raw meat diet. much better for them anyways.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been reading cat_lovers, and a bunch of people were commenting that they were thinking about making their own cat food from scratch. It seems like a bunch of people have fed their cats the tainted food, and a couple of them have pets that have gotten sick. I think one or two of them mentioned that they lost their pet. It's really sad.

By the way, did you hear the story that both a lady and her dog got sick. She ate some of her dog's food in order to trick him into thinking it was people food. Unfortunately, said dog food also so happened to be one of the recalled cans.

[pookzsilla.livejournal.com]

that's absolutely horrible! poor woman.

my friends feed their dogs an all raw meat diet and the dogs' coats are wonderful and they have great muscle tone after doing so. it's a thought. i've also heard of people feeding their ferrets an all raw meat diet. mine don't like raw meat.