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Too be fair, the other vets we have seen for jabs, plus last year she had to have two abscesses lanced near her tail, have been fine. It was just yesterday's vet. Perhaps she's just not a cat person. All Missy wanted to do yesterday evening was lay on my lap - so no lappy... Edit. I forgot to say, the nurse gave me a little lecture on how feeding cats on dry food is better for their teeth. I couldn't be bothered to inform her that Missy was on nothing but dry food until a - at the most - 3 months ago. It was 7¾ years of carb's that didn't help her teeth not the ¼ year of protein! |
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I think specially designed food to help clean teeth is probably effective, hills TD for example. I feed our two a mixture of wet and dry. Marmaduke is still eating some kitten food but he is 9 months old now so tends to eat whatever is there including Chloe’s As Chloe hasn’t many teeth left we’re giving her more wet food. |
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It was a cat breeder on another forum who advised me to get Missy to eat wet food as well as dry. Missy had been weaned on to dry food & it's taken a while to remind her she's a carnivore & get her to eat wet food she still won't eat fresh cooked chicken or fish. |
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Leia generally prefers wet cat food to "people food", she was quite old before she deigned to eat chicken, ham, fish or cheese. They can be so picky! I only give her a wee sprinkling of dry on top of her wet, as she had a bout of cystitis once ... never want that to happen again. Missy sounds like quite a character! |
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You raised a good point Amber but I would also like to say that vets that are cheaper are not neccessarily bad vets. My vets are excellent. It is a relatively big surgery with 8 vets, then cover their own emergency care, several of the vets specialise in different aspects of animal health for instance eyes which was extremely important to me, the main vet is registered to do hip/elbow scores, they have a hydro therapy pool but they are extremely reasonable in their prices. For instance Rosie's out of hours (Saturday afternoon) c-section cost £245. This included a consultation in the morning with a jab of oxytocin, the section was extremely difficult as once she was open each of the three kittens had to be cut out individually as they were adhered to her uterus wall, the kittens then had to have oxygen therapy and of course it too much longer to stitch Rosie up. Rosie recovered extremely well with no side effects. My friends cat, on the other hand, had an in hours c-section with no complications for either mum or baby during the section, mum was extremely ill afterwards due to an infection incurred during the op and that cost her £575!!! So my conclusion is cheap does not always = bad just as expensive does not always = good. To my vets it is truely a vocation and I am afraid to others it no longer is. |
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