Quote Originally Posted by Freedom View Post
Just curious, the x ray was taken with no anesthesia? This is the second time I've heard of this on here. My vet never even considers an x ray without anesthesia, can't understand how the cat remains still! (Nor can I for that matter.)
For the most part, all my animals are wide awake and are not under any kind of sedation for xrays. The vet has the techs wear their lead coats and lead gloves and they stretch him out on his back, each holding one end of him and then one of the techs steps on the button on the floor to quickly take the shot.

In human medicine, the best antibiotics for any compromised lung condition (bronchitis on top of asthma, etc...) are the Quinolones. The quinolones (cipro, levaquin in the human world) are very well tolerated and also very broad spectrum. Bean was on one for a skin infection. If Tiger hasn't been on a quinolone yet, that might be a good next choice? (up to the vet, of course, but a suggestion could never hurt).

**Freedom mentioned Baytril...I believe that is a quinolone.
Thanks for posting this info Deb! My vet got super busy yesterday after I put a call into them and forgot to get back to me. She called into the clinic this morning as it is her day off today and asked the receptionist to call and apologize. It's okay though, he is no worse, just the same and they have been so good to me at this hospital. Even though they keep examining him every time I come in for an injection or xrays, they haven't charged me the exam fee. I think they know how much money we've spent on Tiger (coming up on the 6,000 mark soon!!) and they're just really great. It's an all female staff there and the energy is so awesome. (no offense to male docs intended, it's just that this group of vets and techs work very well together).

So Deb, I called the clinic back and acted like I knew what I was talking about (LOL) and said, "what do you think about trying Baytril with Tiger?". The receptionist said she'd talk it over with the vet and call me back. 3 minutes later she called back and said the vet thought that would be a good choice! So, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.

I'm going to pick them up today and we'll get him started on them asap. The trick will be getting them into him. She said the tabs are pretty small so that will help. I'm hoping to crush them and mix them into wet food or salmon cream cheese. I know some of you are probably thinking 'why doesn't she just pill him??' but honestly, it's so hard. He is gurgly, snuffly, coughing and I can't stand to freak him out with trying to get a pill down his throat. You should see the look he gives me when it all goes terribly wrong (as it usually does when I try and pill him). He looks so hurt and disappointed in me.
But, I promise, if he won't eat them any other way, I'll get my husband to hold him and we will pop these pills down his throat. He will get these meds.