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Post by puddycats on Mar 28, 2015 9:49:04 GMT
A friend on Facebook recommended putting vanilla on both their noses as for a while that is all they smell and don't smell each other. She said that they do that if they want to put a stray kitten with a mother cat to get her to accept it and it usually works. Never heard of that before! However, anything was worth a try. It didn't appear to work for my two ! I tried it again the next day and I don't know if it was that but it has actually calmed down between Callie and Oliver now after 4 days of such bad feeling between them. The "loving" is starting to return. It was so awful to see such laid back cats devoted to each other fight like that and sad to see little Oliver trying to go up to Callie and "chatting" to her almost as if he was asking what he had done wrong. Hopefully now it looks like harmony has returned. Fingers crossed and perhaps I can get a decent night's sleep now - well until 5am at least when it is their playtime!
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Post by scallywag on Mar 28, 2015 9:55:54 GMT
Pleased harmony is returning, playtime at 5am ? Little minx's is that every morning poor you. xx
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Post by cia on Mar 28, 2015 10:38:04 GMT
I imagine watching poor Ollie was heart breaking. Im so pleased its slowly returning back to normality. I wonder if the next vet vist would warrant taking them both together - just to keep the peace. Not sure what the vet would make of this lol but who cares. lol xx
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Post by puddycats on Mar 28, 2015 19:03:28 GMT
I was thinking the same thing Cia - taking them both together next time. I always used to with Molly and Max but as Callie and Oliver are only one year old and they had both had their jabs when I got them at different times as Callie is 2 months older than Oliver, they are out of sync at the moment but I will be able tp get them both done at the same time next year. I will even look into the possibility of using a mobile vet. My niece uses one and she has been very pleased with him. My vets is not the same any more. Vets used to stay at the practise for years and as both Molly and Max had HCM they saw a lot of me and we built up a good relationship. Now vets never stay very long and they just seem to have no feeling for the cats. Oliver could have just as well have been a lump of wood for all the feeling the new vet showed him. I was annoyed that they gave Callie the FeLV jab without first getting the okay from me and when I tried to stop him from giving it to Oliver he said he had already got it ready and was really insistent that he had it. I am not in a very good state of mind at the moment and didn't argue with him. It just seems the money is all they are interested in. I use them because they are very local to me but that is the only reason now.
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Post by tonib on Mar 28, 2015 21:18:41 GMT
That's bad that they don't listen to you about FeLV, puddycats. the only reason I can think they prepared it automatically was because they'd had it originally so that the vets were only boosting what was on the card. If it wasn't an original vaccination then there is no excuse whatsoever. Ours hadn't had the FeLV when we got them so our vets asked & then added it as ours our outdoor. As to vet changes we are lucky there have been new ones (maternity/sick leave to be covered & expansion etc.) but most seem to stay & are caring - I think the ones that aren't don't stay long!
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Post by cia on Mar 28, 2015 21:21:40 GMT
A mobile vet - sounds like a perfect solution, unless its a emergency. Saying that, can you call them in an emergency? I hear what you say about the vets and unfortunately it does appear some vets give this impression of making a fast buck - weather its true or not makes no difference - if you dont feel comfortable and your the paying customer - then i know what i would choose. Ollie and Callie deserve more than that and im sure their has to be some great vets out there somewhere.
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Post by puddycats on Mar 29, 2015 9:11:20 GMT
Toni - I forgot to take Callie's card when she had her boosters so they had no idea what she had previously been been given and I stupidly forgot to check what she was going to be given. But that was why i was so annoyed over the whole thing,
Cia -Unfortunately, my niece's vet doesn't do emergency call outs. I have been checking online re mobile vets and a local to me does emergency call outs and also has a surgery which if necessary they can take the pet to. It does sound good and worth looking into as I agree Callie and Oliver deserve better.
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Post by spider on Mar 29, 2015 9:44:07 GMT
many yeas ago when spider was with us i went to a vet for his boosters and like that when i left his place i had the feeling that if he had a ring in his nose he would have being more interested i never went back to him again his vet i used ever after has his own place and he is the only one working there its like a one to one place he knows us for 20 odd years puddycats if thats how he treated lovely Oliver like a lump of wood i would be thinking of leaving them some of the vets are not pet vets they would be better off with big animals
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Post by scallywag on Mar 29, 2015 10:22:54 GMT
Toni - I forgot to take Callie's card when she had her boosters so they had no idea what she had previously been been given and I stupidly forgot to check what she was going to be given. But that was why i was so annoyed over the whole thing, Cia -Unfortunately, my niece's vet doesn't do emergency call outs. I have been checking online re mobile vets and a local to me does emergency call outs and also has a surgery which if necessary they can take the pet to. It does sound good and worth looking into as I agree Callie and Oliver deserve better. Andrena I would be sitting down and writing a letter putting just how you feel ( use the excuse that the delay to writing was because you had your hands full for last few days with the 2 cats fighting ) also state you were so incensed that they would argue the point THAT THE VAC WAS ALREADY PREPARED, that's outrageous, what if we took a poorly pet in and they immediately got the PTS jab prepared, would they still insist if we didn't argue the toss. I am registered at 2 vets in town so I can pick and choose who I see depending on what the problem is Good luck with finding the best way to go, home visit sounds ideal, less stress all round too Sorry for the long post x
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 13:27:10 GMT
I am not against all the boosters everyone - I am ok about them having the cat flu and feline enteritis boosters each year as they are both very contagious. It is only the FeLV (leukaemia) booster that I feel is not necessary for my 2.
Yes, I think I would be the same if my two were indoor girls The FeLV virus IS pretty hard to catch and I would imagine the risk would be zero with your two so you ARE just being a good mummy to them both I'm just paranoid about ANY nasties after Suzi & George which is why my two dirty-stop-outs Lily & Chilli have everything done
Perhaps next year take them both in at the same time and INSIST on not wanting the FeLV jab....mention it when you make the appointment AND when you go into the vet's consulting room so they cannot try to say you didn't tell them beforehand!
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Post by dutchkitties on Mar 30, 2015 9:26:02 GMT
I thought about home visits too. However, my three will hide upstairs, when a stranger calls. They are very expensive as well.
I took Misty and Tosha together last year. Misty a month earlier and Tosha a month later, so now they run parallel.
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