*VERY* Worried about my Basie Bee :(

[krazyaboutkatz]

Kelly, I'm so glad to hear that Basie is feeling much better. I hope he'll be back to normal soon Take care.

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

Poor Basie Kat..

Im sorry he isn't feeling well.. sending some *hugs* and *kisses* over for him..

Glad you see you back too Kelly! Other than your sick baby.. I hope all is well with you!!

[slick]

Kelly, I was going to post this in blue for Basie Boy but thought the "pink and sparkly" theme would cheer you up. I'm so glad that he is doing much better. I have to chuckle at your comment about him blowing when you have the kleenex ready. It's exactly like a small child, isn't it?? Still praying for his continued recovery.

[Catty1]

He's cleaning his OWN nose? GREAT! Glad to hear BB is on the mend!

Keep us posted ok?

hugs
Catty1

[jazzcat]

Poor Basie. Please feel better soon sweetie. Lots of prayers and positive thoughts coming your way.

Good to see you Kelly.

[NoahsMommy]

(((hugs)))

Thanks again for the well wishes, guys.

He's sneezing a bit more today. So I turned the heater as well as the humidifier on to help him breath a bit better. I can still tell he isn't feeling very well - he might have sympathy pains for his dear Auntie CiCi, she was just diagnosed with pneumonia this afternoon! Poor things!

He's still hating the pilling thing. The better he feels, the more he fusses. That little nawtee kitty will keep the pill in his mouth till you let him go and he spits it out...mush and all! Bratty! So we're clamping his mouth shut and keeping him there for at least a minute so he HAS to swallow.

Poor Basie...constant torture from the hoomans.

Thanks again for your concern. You guys always understand how worrisome it is when our furballs are ill. Feeling helpless is a understatement.

Hugs,
Kelly

[christa]

. . . So we're clamping his mouth shut and keeping him there for at least a minute so he HAS to swallow.

Hey Kelly! Little tip . . . once you get that pill in Basie's mouth, hold his mouth shut and blow up his nose. He WILL swallow.

I am sorry to hear that you are having such troubles with him & the asthma. Josie has asthma also. We take her to get shots about every 4-6 weeks, whenever she starts coughing. I have no idea what the shot is called though. I'd have to look at an old invoice. We also have Preds on hand to give her over the weekends if she has an attack & the vet isn't open. I know how scary it is to have a kitty with breathing problems. We are thinking of you. {{{HUGS}}}

[pnance]

Kelly I'm just seeing this now. I'm so sorry to here about Basie. Hopefully he'll be feeling better soon. My RB terrier had fairly severe asthma that would flair up periodically. My vet put him on a human inhaler (I can't remember the name but can find out if you'd like from his records),after talking it over with a friend of hers from Davis (he was the first patient she tried it on because nothing else worked). It helped him quite a bit and she later told me since it had worked so well for him she had 2 of her other clients cats on the same thing and they were doing well. I cheated a bit and instead of buying the container to put of his nose like in the picture (since it's expensive) I took an old plastic spice container, cleaned it out and cut a hole that allowed me to put the inhaler in. It fit perfectly over his nose and worked just as well as the expensive ones. Hope he's feeling better soon.

[NoahsMommy]

Hey Kelly! Little tip . . . once you get that pill in Basie's mouth, hold his mouth shut and blow up his nose. He WILL swallow.

We take her to get shots about every 4-6 weeks, whenever she starts coughing. I have no idea what the shot is called though.

The thing with Basie is, he moves the pill to the side of his mouth, almost UNDER his tongue. When he swallows, he swallows nothing. Little smarty brat, huh? CiCi is the one who pills him and she's been a vet/surgical techfor nearly 10 years and even she says he's a pain in the butt.

The injections are probably some form of pred, like solu-medrol. I want to try the kitty inhaler first, but then injections may help too. When he was first diagnosed, he had a series of the injections for a while there and they did seem to help a bit. Thanks for the ideas, I'm sorry your little one has asthma as well. Do the injections seem to help her?