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NO MORE RETAIL - 19 Oct 2005 12:23 GMT
Does anyone else have a cat that is epileptic.  Just wanted to share some experiences and hear some stories from anyone that does have a firball that is
Pat in Atlanta - 19 Oct 2005 21:56 GMT
No, in all my years as a cat person I've never had one with that problem.  My husband has it but I don't have to give him medicine; he takes it all by himself.
Why don't you share with us what it's like?
 Does anyone else have a cat that is epileptic.  Just wanted to share some experiences and hear some stories from anyone that does have a firball that is
No More  Retail - 19 Oct 2005 22:22 GMT
2 pills of 2.5 mg of diazepam daily  that's 2 pills that you have to chase a cat down to give to    he gets the itches and either scratches his fur off or licks it off    than comes the cortisone shot.  He has been seizure free for almost 2 years  everytime he had one it would takes days on nursing him back to health just to get him to move.  I almost thought I was going to have to put him down at first he was allergic to Phenobarbital  but my vet called every friend he had till he found one that had the above medication work for him  bad effect it can take a few years off his life.  I was a ball of tears when I thought I was going to have to put him down

He is actually one of my my special cat When he was 3 weeks old some jerk threw him out the window of a moving car.  Well to cut a longer story short I chased him down got him arrested for felony animal cruelty he still is serving 4 more years I won't tell you what I did when I pull him out of his car almost went to jail till my wife brought the kitten up and showed the cop who in turn made sure the jerk met the door.  the cop now is a good friend who volunteers with me at the shelters
Ivor Jones - 20 Oct 2005 10:31 GMT
"No More Retail" <nowaytospam@noway.com> wrote in message
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> He is actually one of my my special cat When he was 3
> weeks old some jerk threw him out the window of a moving
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> sure the jerk met the door.  the cop now is a good friend
> who volunteers with me at the shelters

I like it, well done..!

Ivor
Ghost - 20 Oct 2005 11:06 GMT
> "No More Retail" <nowaytospam@noway.com> wrote in message
> news:eOy5f.161782$xl6.53964@tornado.tampabay.rr.com
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>>sure the jerk met the door.  the cop now is a good friend
>>who volunteers with me at the shelters

cruelty to a cruel pet owner ;)

<pats NMR on the back> :)

ghost

> I like it, well done..!
>
> Ivor

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Kalyahna - 23 Oct 2005 02:08 GMT
>Does anyone else have a cat that is epileptic.  Just wanted to share some experiences and hear >some stories from anyone that does have a firball that is

Yep. Ideopathic. Treated for several years with phenobarbital, she's been weaned off of that for about a year with a few small seizures now and then. Thankfully she's easy to pill and has no adverse reactions to the meds
No More  Retail - 23 Oct 2005 07:15 GMT
How bad were the seizures when the cat had them and did it seem to knock the cat off its feet for a few days?
Kalyahna - 25 Oct 2005 03:41 GMT
"No More Retail" <nowaytospam@noway.com> wrote in message news:hUF6f.1839$Zd.1340@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...

>How bad were the seizures when the cat had them and did it seem to knock the cat off its feet for a >few days?

No, nothing that severe. She's had maybe a dozen petit mal seizures where she can't maintain her balance and falls over, paddling her feet and purring like crazy. They last for maybe 30 seconds to a minute at the most, and by the end of that minute, she's perfectly normal again. Her one grand mal seizure was in a carrier in the car. That one, she threw herself around in the crate, scratched and bloodied up her nose a little bit, foamed all over the place, and was herself again in a couple of minutes. I've been told that a seizure longer than three minutes is one that can cause brain damage. I rather think her one grand mal seizure was a little longer than three minutes, or that she must have had a big seizure before I adopted her, simply because she's never been a particularly graceful cat. Rolls over, falls off the bed, gets her claws stuck in things and can't get them back out - she managed to dislocate a dewclaw doing that once.
 
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