RachLeigh13
06-25-2007, 05:57 PM
Today I took Ellen to work (I work at an animal hospital.) Ellen is my year old torti and she had this "Scabby" place at the base of her ears and above her eyes. At first we thought it was because Bubba Gump (Our siamese) plays rough with her, but I soon realized it couldn't be that. We had one of the doctors do a skin scrapping on her and it came out negative for anything. She doesn't have fleas, so that ruled out any weird reaction to a flea bite. We found out her ears had a bit of a yeast infection, but nothing major. Doctor Bunker has classified it as a mild allergy of some sort. She may have to get Depo shots if she doesn't respond well to the ear meds or antibiotics.
I guess its just been an interesting day because she reminds us so much of my mom's old torti, Bert, who had to have depo shots because of her allergies. The thing with the depo shots is that it can shorten a cats lifespan if they start getting it as a young feline (Before 7 years of age.) Hopefully she'll respond well to the medications.
I gave her a bath and then a dose of Revolution and now she is happy as a june bug to be home. It really was interesting giving her medications today. She HATED being dewormed when she was little, and giving her the Clavamox suspension drops is similar to how she was given the dewormer.
I've never had to give any of our cats medications before, haha so this will be interesting, especially since now I am the one dosing her.
Its ironic too that she has some sort of allergy, because last night I just told mom how lucky we were to not have any cats that were diabetic, or allergic to anything. :rolleyes:
Keep your fingers crossed that she doesn't need depo shots and responds well to the medications!
Ohh and I forgot to mention, my little baby isn't so little anymore! :eek: She's now 9 pounds and 4 ounces! She did well today at work, everyone kept commenting on how sweet she was.
I guess its just been an interesting day because she reminds us so much of my mom's old torti, Bert, who had to have depo shots because of her allergies. The thing with the depo shots is that it can shorten a cats lifespan if they start getting it as a young feline (Before 7 years of age.) Hopefully she'll respond well to the medications.
I gave her a bath and then a dose of Revolution and now she is happy as a june bug to be home. It really was interesting giving her medications today. She HATED being dewormed when she was little, and giving her the Clavamox suspension drops is similar to how she was given the dewormer.
I've never had to give any of our cats medications before, haha so this will be interesting, especially since now I am the one dosing her.
Its ironic too that she has some sort of allergy, because last night I just told mom how lucky we were to not have any cats that were diabetic, or allergic to anything. :rolleyes:
Keep your fingers crossed that she doesn't need depo shots and responds well to the medications!
Ohh and I forgot to mention, my little baby isn't so little anymore! :eek: She's now 9 pounds and 4 ounces! She did well today at work, everyone kept commenting on how sweet she was.