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Re: Update on Cat Bitting Himself /Steriod Shot

Be sure to put the non-clay litter in a separate litter box near the other litter box.  Don't switch litters cold turkey.  Your cat may refuse to use the litter box and go outside the box if you switch too quickly.


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Re: Update on Cat Bitting Himself /Steriod Shot

Please please please do not use or feed anything for your pets that comes

from China ... remember the plastic in the baby formula... and then read

how they farm raise fish there .....they are not above doing anything .....

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Thank you for the suggestion

 

Okocat is a soft step natural wood clumping litter that does noir have clay.

 

 

I will provide an update!

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I had another thought.

 

 

Provide you cat with perches so that he can look outside and "read his newspaper".

 

 

Provide "Cat TV" by placing small aquariums where he can watch the fish.

 

 

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I switched my cat to Feline Pine litter a few years ago - it's much better and healthier. He is on steroids for feline lymphoma, but he also gets 1/2 a zyrtec daily for allergies and asthma. First thing I would do is stop all dry food especially if it contains grain. I would stick to a pure protein diet and then I would look into holistic medications - check out Petwellbeing. I have purchased a few items from them and it has helped my boy tremendously. Good luck.

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@nycgrl wrote:

I switched my cat to Feline Pine litter a few years ago - it's much better and healthier. He is on steroids for feline lymphoma, but he also gets 1/2 a zyrtec daily for allergies and asthma. First thing I would do is stop all dry food especially if it contains grain. I would stick to a pure protein diet and then I would look into holistic medications - check out Petwellbeing. I have purchased a few items from them and it has helped my boy tremendously. Good luck.

 

Ms NYC

Thank you so much, can you please share more information on how youy give him a zyrtec, it may be easy but I would love to hear specific s.

He is currently on a hydrolized food which he eats well.

 

Can you also share you holistic recommendations, I am going to research now.

 

Thannk you soi muchg, I am grateful!




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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

I had another thought.

 

 

Provide you cat with perches so that he can look outside and "read his newspaper".

 

 

Provide "Cat TV" by placing small aquariums where he can watch the fish.

 

 

Thanks, I have set up two bird watching areas but I will investigate a small fish tank.

 

Thanks!!

 


 

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@Happiness Is Inside JOB wrote:

@nycgrl wrote:

I switched my cat to Feline Pine litter a few years ago - it's much better and healthier. He is on steroids for feline lymphoma, but he also gets 1/2 a zyrtec daily for allergies and asthma. First thing I would do is stop all dry food especially if it contains grain. I would stick to a pure protein diet and then I would look into holistic medications - check out Petwellbeing. I have purchased a few items from them and it has helped my boy tremendously. Good luck.

 

Ms NYC

Thank you so much, can you please share more information on how youy give him a zyrtec, it may be easy but I would love to hear specific s.

He is currently on a hydrolized food which he eats well.

 

Can you also share you holistic recommendations, I am going to research now.

 

Thannk you soi muchg, I am grateful!





@Happiness Is Inside JOB - I bought what they call a pill gun or popper. You put the pill in it and it shoots the pill in before they even realize what happened. It's very quick and painless.

 

Did you check out the website I suggested. If you call them, they will make recommendations. My boy is on lifegold for cancer. It can't save him, but it has extended his quality of life and his vet is amazed he is even still here. I can't recommend their products enough.  Good luck Heart

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@nycgrl wrote:

@Happiness Is Inside JOB wrote:

@nycgrl wrote:

I switched my cat to Feline Pine litter a few years ago - it's much better and healthier. He is on steroids for feline lymphoma, but he also gets 1/2 a zyrtec daily for allergies and asthma. First thing I would do is stop all dry food especially if it contains grain. I would stick to a pure protein diet and then I would look into holistic medications - check out Petwellbeing. I have purchased a few items from them and it has helped my boy tremendously. Good luck.

 

Ms NYC

Thank you so much, can you please share more information on how youy give him a zyrtec, it may be easy but I would love to hear specific s.

He is currently on a hydrolized food which he eats well.

 

Can you also share you holistic recommendations, I am going to research now.

 

Thannk you soi muchg, I am grateful!





@Happiness Is Inside JOB - I bought what they call a pill gun or popper. You put the pill in it and it shoots the pill in before they even realize what happened. It's very quick and painless.

 

Did you check out the website I suggested. If you call them, they will make recommendations. My boy is on lifegold for cancer. It can't save him, but it has extended his quality of life and his vet is amazed he is even still here. I can't recommend their products enough.  Good luck Heart


Yes, I did go to the website - what a wealth of information.  I also went to a cat owners message board and read about others experiencing similar problems.

 

I ordered the zyrtec from amazon, the Pack Pharmaceuticals Cetirizine Hydrochloride 5 mg, 100 and the pill pockets.

 

We will "SEE" if this works.

 

 

 

Also I read on the site, I did not order anything yet.  THe litter arrives today from amazon and I'm going to follow the advice to have two boxes side by side to see how this works out.

 

I will post an update and I am very thankful for your comments and tips.                                                                                                                         

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@Happiness Is Inside JOB wrote:

@nycgrl wrote:

@Happiness Is Inside JOB wrote:

@nycgrl wrote:

I switched my cat to Feline Pine litter a few years ago - it's much better and healthier. He is on steroids for feline lymphoma, but he also gets 1/2 a zyrtec daily for allergies and asthma. First thing I would do is stop all dry food especially if it contains grain. I would stick to a pure protein diet and then I would look into holistic medications - check out Petwellbeing. I have purchased a few items from them and it has helped my boy tremendously. Good luck.

 

Ms NYC

Thank you so much, can you please share more information on how youy give him a zyrtec, it may be easy but I would love to hear specific s.

He is currently on a hydrolized food which he eats well.

 

Can you also share you holistic recommendations, I am going to research now.

 

Thannk you soi muchg, I am grateful!





@Happiness Is Inside JOB - I bought what they call a pill gun or popper. You put the pill in it and it shoots the pill in before they even realize what happened. It's very quick and painless.

 

Did you check out the website I suggested. If you call them, they will make recommendations. My boy is on lifegold for cancer. It can't save him, but it has extended his quality of life and his vet is amazed he is even still here. I can't recommend their products enough.  Good luck Heart


Yes, I did go to the website - what a wealth of information.  I also went to a cat owners message board and read about others experiencing similar problems.

 

I ordered the zyrtec from amazon, the Pack Pharmaceuticals Cetirizine Hydrochloride 5 mg, 100 and the pill pockets.

 

We will "SEE" if this works.

 

 

 

Also I read on the site, I did not order anything yet.  THe litter arrives today from amazon and I'm going to follow the advice to have two boxes side by side to see how this works out.

 

I will post an update and I am very thankful for your comments and tips.                                                                                                                         


Good luck @Happiness Is Inside JOB - Please only give 1/2 of a zyrtec. Never a full pill. Also, if I may, you may want to consider bathing his itchies with a pure oatmeal bath. I actually give my boy a hot oil massage with JM argan oil when he gets flaky. I just put a little bit in my hand and rub his whole body and then comb him - then he sits outside and it soaks in and all his flakiness disappears.

 

As to the litter, you can slowly convert by mixing the old and the new together and over the course of a few weeks, add more and more of the new until the transition is complete. Never just change from one to other. I personally wouldn't have 2 litter boxes. Too confusing for them.

 

I never tried pill pockets - mine would never eat them. I have a pill popper - that is how the vet techs are able to pill your cat so easily. Please keep me posted on your progress. Good luck Heart