Recent Content by mentat

Many meds now defunct in human medicine are readily used in veterinary medicine as different species gain different benefits from metabolism of drugs in a variety of ways. DES has saved many dogs from euthanasia that laid in their own urine, unresponsive to PPA in estrogen-responsive urinary...

Tink is a veteran veterinary patient, who has been through many diagnostics and treatments. She has become the voodoo queen of sousing out meds in pill pockets, fishy food of the stinkiest sort, wrapped in deli meat, using the newest "velvets" and "slide n serves" are interesting enough, we...

Inflammatory autoimmune disease of the bowel is closely correlated with chronic pancreatitis. Your previous vet offended by second opinions and collaboration is obsolete and glad you left him in the rearview mirror. You've got many comorbid diseases to manage here, a challenge, but not...

Alright, I am dusting off 5 courses in animal nutrition, comparative animal nutrition, and human nutrition, ethics in nutrition. As well as practical application for wild populations we are reintroducing once rehabilitated, wild captives never being released, as well as domesticated carnivores...

Alrighty, y'all, I am more disabled than ever now and cannot. Even. Pill. My. Own. Senior. Cat. Manually. So, that is sad. Moving on. Tink will normally have a good appetite the first attempt and second attempt at "slipping her a mickey" with pate or smoothly supersoft food. Then, we start to...

On any Cerenia? Prolonged use is safe and effective in cats, from vet only, at 1-2mg/kg by mouth once daily. It helps with nausea, vomiting, visceral abdominal pain, respiratory secretions, so many benefits!

What is your recommended approach to a defunct city, once highly populated before 2008 recession, became a ghost town when all mills and manufacturing moved out, whose "humane animal society" only euthanizes, wasting resources (tried to appeal to their tiny city budget), wasting lives, and...

@rubysmama Seconded. Mine transition immediately to Ultamino, or other HP, or novel protein RX, or Raw nutritionist formulated diet when all else fails, IMMEDIATE relief! WoOT! PS, my favorite Ruby was a flyball papillon. What a minx! Your red tabby girl is rare, and Ruby is very apropos

They do love the "free" inexpensive toys best, don't they?! A cardboard box is best for a hide and for scratching, not the $50 smartscratcher, or $300 tower with hides/posts/perches galore! LOL Glad she's conditioning herself to crepuscular activity that is effective for you both, and lends...

Hello @Jojo&Tutu Much thorough nutrition sleuthing and filtering through that which does and does not induce inflammation in your baby. Regarding the elevated pancreatic enzymes, is this lipase only on a blood chemistry, lipase and amylase on a blood chem, or an elevated quantitative total...

ACVIM, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, with specific certifications in feline medicine or other, such as neurology, oncology, etc. These are US and Canada board certifications. U of Guelph has some of the best ones around! I love Dr. Scott Weese especially, while the zoonotic...

Regarding your vet's synopsis of "just worms and allergies." Parasites are nasty nasty mothatruckas. They destroy intestinal villi, suck away blood when attach their oral cavity to intestinal wall lining, stealing nutrients. Tapes and other flatworms do not attach to the tract like this, but...

"Maropitant: A Multimodal Antiemetic Maropitant citrate (Cerenia, zoetis.com), a potent selective NK1 receptor antagonist, plays an important role in managing vomiting, mediated via both the vomiting center and CRTZ (ie, humoral and neural pathways).3-5 The drug is effective for: Prevention of...

uuuuum, was his blood glucose low when "one vet" recommended this? NO SQ Dextrose in cats, ever. No. Bad medical recommendation. Intravenous, aka IV, CRI of dextrose in LRS or NaCl solution is for emergently hypoglycemic, and/or ketoacidotic diabetic out of remission, needing glucose and insulin...