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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: Mark on January 22, 2009, 18:27:53 PM
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My mum was gardening and was trying to rake up some moss. Her cat Shelly is a scatty lunatic who flies around all over the place. She came flying out from the house and ran straight into the rake handle, bashing her head. My mum bathed it but it started swelling and her eye closed up. My mum ordered a cab and took her straight to the vet. They say there isn't any serious damage but the eye will be bloodshot when it opens. They have given her some Metacam. She said they prescribed 3ml but she isn't sure whether to give it all at once or 1ml at a time. I told her to ring them. Poor Shelley - anyway, hopefully it will have knocked some sense into her and she might slow down :-: - poor baby :Luv2:
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I have to give Freddy 3ml at a time so that sounds about right.
Hope she is feeling better soon xxxx
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Noo not 3ml! The syringe you get measures it out with the graduations for the weight of the cat in kg. Please check she doesnt have any other syringe Mark :scared: :scared:
A 3kg dose is a small amount and can easily be given in her mouth ;D
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Ooh, ouch! poor Shelley. :hug:
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Noo not 3ml! The syringe you get measures it out with the graduations for the weight of the cat in kg. Please check she doesnt have any other syringe Mark :scared: :scared:
A 3kg dose is a small amount and can easily be given in her mouth ;D
Sorry you are right....
I have to give Freddy 3 graduations
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She said she thought it was best to give 1ml 3 times a day and asked what I thought. I told her I'm not a vet and to phone hers :evillaugh: - she said there were no instructions. I asked about the box - she said there wasn't a box. They just gave her a small amount in a brown bottle with a syringe. It cost her £48 with the consultation :Crazy:
Hopefully she sorted it out OK as this was yesterday and I forgot to post about it.
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WHAT ?????
They are taking the :censored: Mark !!!!!!!
She could have bought a whole bottle for £15 from the vet
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Theres no point if its broken up, bodyweight dose once aday. The reason they dont give a bottle is people can be lethal with a whole one!
I hope the syringe is a kg graduated one not an ordinary one, that would be way too much :scared: the whole bottle is only 15ml and lasts one cat ages.
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I have a couple of bottles. I will give her a call tomorrow. I basically said the same as you. One larger dose may be the way to go and too small a dose might be ineffective. Anyway, I wasn't prepared to commit myself. I suppose it comes from talking to people on the CP line. Like the woman today who was telling me over & over about her cats symptoms. I kept telling her "TALK TO A VET" as I wasn't qualified to diagnose :Crazy: