Oral antibiotics for stray cats
Recently visited a relative of mine who daily feeds 25 to 50 stray,wild, and border line tame cats.Many I saw have eye infections,and other problems I could recognize visually,possible skin disorders,hair missing from tails and hind quarters.Most likely many of them also have parasites.They are all congregated together for a daily food sourse.Was wondering if there was a general antibiotic to be given orally to a feline population with diverse illnesses and ages of both genders.I realize this is an odd situation,would like to help this person out as much as possible,any advice you can give would be very much appreciated!!Thank you.
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Cat with hyperesthesia syndrome - twitch cat disease
My Bengal cat (2yo male neutered) is thought to have feline hyperesthesia syndrome. He is constantly rubbing up against thinks, licking his tail and lower back, darting off wildly and has a very sensitive lower back area. He rolls aroung on his back alot as though it is itching. When he was castrated at the age of about 9 months, he became terribly sick, he was taken to the vets and eventually found to have an abnormal swelling that had been caused by the operation. He was given anti-inflammatories and antibiotics and this seemed to clear but was left with a bald patch in this area (top of spine). He has displayed this behaviour for some time, hard to say exactly when it started.
Could you please explain what this illness is and is it life threatening. I understand that medication can be given. Is the he in any pain?
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Turtle squirting white liquid
We just bought 3 Sucuta turtles to have as pets and one of them has squirted a white liquid substance from his butt and the others haven’t. Is he sick or is it normal? Should we be worried?
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Cat with hair loss and dandruff
One of my cats (7yo female neutered DSH), has what looks like a dry skin problem. She is completely black except for her stomach and bottom of her paws which are white. 3 mos ago she lost some fur on her forepaws which the local vet diagnosed as a flea allergy. She had one dose of frontline. I saw that the frontline was an insecticide which I felt uncomfotable giving them. I started her on a B-vitamin for cats which was to create a flea repellant. (It is called Flea-Tabs)
The B-vitamin has actually made her fur better. However I have noticed one thing. Just after she had the frontline, I started seeing very minute white flake speckles in her fur, not alot but when I brush her more come out. I thought these were flea eggs, but she doesn’t seem bothered by them and is not scratching. They look like dandruff. My question is what could these be?
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Puppy diarrhea
About a week ago my dog (16weeks male Golden Retriever) started pooping a wattery poop in the afternoons his 2 morning poops were normal. We assumed he ate something. On Friday he became lazy and had a hard time pooping and it was watry and mucus. The vet checked his poop for worms and a single cell orgaims that I can’t remember the names of and said it looked like he wasn’t digesting his food good and the was a minor amount of blood and gave him some medicine for diarrhea that smelled like pizza. After a day of that he wouldn’t hardly poop at all, he tries 2 or 3 times before going and it is a very small amounts and its still watery and yellow. After he had the yellow mucus one he tried about 8 times since and nothiing. He didn’t eat much Sunday and It’s Monday morning and I’m going to take him back to the vet. But I am looking for a second opion.
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