I just love that spicy girl Habanaro! Thanks for posting that very sweet picture Katie.
And she loves you Gaye....you know it.Originally Posted by gayef
I just love that spicy girl Habanaro! Thanks for posting that very sweet picture Katie.
I think you're confusing oxycodone with oxytocin. Oxycodone is the opioid pain reliever, and oxytocin is the hormone... it can stimulate both lactation andn uterine contraction in humans and cats, and it plays a role in many other things for humans as well.Originally Posted by Liza24
i doubt it would interfer. the drug is mainly used as a pain reliever, and in cat that are IN labor, but its stalled, its used to stimulate harder contractions. IF that didnt stimuate her to have contractions, then she isnt ready, maybe in a day or two. if she did implant late which happens, then she will go when she is ready, i think time to worry would be about 75 days. cause then you knwo even if she implanted late, she should have gone into labor by then.
In humans, oxytocin has a relatively short half life (less then 8 hours, I think, I'd have to look it up), but I don't know about cats. It shouldn't hurt anything, it may well be all metabolized and gone by tomorrow, and if anything, it should help her milk start to drop.Originally Posted by LabRat
Thank you Lisa for your response.....that makes me feel a bit better!!!! My concern at this point also is....where she was given the Oxytocin (TWICE) is it a MUST that she deliver the kittens within a certain amount of time - and also having been given the oxytocin, will that interfere with a normal delivery days from now??? I searched the internet for over 2 hours looking for answers to these 2 questions and found nothing. I was hoping that someone here has had experience or good knowledge of Oxytocin.
Thanks again
Cathy
That is just wild!Originally Posted by Cairo
So one day as I was cleaning my guest bathroom, I noticed a sock poking out of the bath tub. I pulled back the shower curtain to find a massive soup of stuff made up of all these things that had gone missing. It was crazy! Whole cans of soup (don't ask me how they got it in there), bags, paper towels (shredded to bits of course), spices from the spice rack, kitchen utensils, clothes, dog toys, razor heads (they must have picked these out of the garbage in our bathroom). I just started laughing so hard. I left everything in there for my boyfriend to see when he came home.
Even after cleaning it up, they kept bringing stuff up there. I just had to add that bathtub to my list of things to clean often. Then one day, I made my usual tin-foil ball toy for them, and left the house. I came back and went to my office and I hear the most god-awful noise like someone is banging down a wall next door. It took me about 5 minutes to realize the noise was coming from inside the house. I followed the noise to the guest bathtub and found all the things they had stollen were sitting outside the tub in a pile, and Paris and Cairo were in the tub with the foil ball bouncing all over the place. I guess they found a more exciting use for the bathtub!
I've been there too...which is why I'm so glad that our rescue spays/neuters all the kittens and cats before they go to homes. That way...those cats will not contribute to the overpopulation.Originally Posted by possumstew
As someone who has done a LOT of rescue work I can see her point. I have lurked here a while, and I don't think that anyone here thinks that purebreds are more valuable or worthwhile than mixes, but millions of mixed-breed cats, dogs, kittens and puppies are euthanized every year, as well as a fair number of purebreds. If every cat or dog owner decided to let their pet have a litter before getting them fixed, can you imagine how high that number would be? It's not personal, but right now the number of kittens and puppies being born far exceeds the available homes for them. It is a sick, sick feeling when you have all the fosters you can handle and then some, and someone calls you because they just found three puppies or kittens that will have to go to the pound, where they euthanize 95% of what comes in, if you don't help - but you can't. I have been there, and it hurts.
Oh wow! I didn't know foil balls were not safe. Are crinkle balls the ones you get in the store, and look like christmas decorations? Are those safe? Funny thing is my cats love full sized tennis balls. And if I throw one in the house for Moscow, Paris beats him to it and starts attacking him if he even thinks about taking from her.Originally Posted by Beckiboo
That is just wild!I must say, though, that at TCS I have learned that tin-foil balls aren't safe for kitties. Sometimes they will bite a piece off and swallow it. My Festie loves crinkle balls, and I'm sure she would love a tin foil ball, but I won't give it to her.
I know my kitties steal toys, too. They love Polly Pockets!