Over the counter antibiotic type meds for stray cats please ?

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whayface - 10 Aug 2004 14:39 GMT

Sorry if I posted this before but I do not remember if I posted this
to the vet group or here.

I feed and care some strays and some of them look sickly and I asked
my vet that I take my indoor furbabies to about getting some clavamox
or amoxi-tabs for them but after all the money I spend there she will
not unless she sees them in her office and there is no way these
strays are going to let me get them in a carrier!!

I have treated them with OTC tape worm and round worm meds in their
food and have managed to get Frontline on most of them while they are
busy eating. Some of them let me touch and pet them while they are
eating but once done or if I try to pick them up - OUCH !!! :-(

Most of them have put on weight and improved since I have been caring
for them and I have tamed 2 enough to find homes for them.

Appreciate any suggestions.

TIA

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Ashley - 10 Aug 2004 20:23 GMT

> Sorry if I posted this before but I do not remember if I posted this
> to the vet group or here.
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> not unless she sees them in her office and there is no way these
> strays are going to let me get them in a carrier!!

Good on her! Antibiotics are not cure-alls for everything under the sun.
They have specific actions against specific bacteria - and not against
viruses at all. All you would be doing by treating them with antibiotics,
without even knowing what bacterial disease they have, or even if it is a
bacterial disease, is increasing antibiotic resistance, ensuring that those
antibiotics become less effective much more quickly than they need to.

> I have treated them with OTC tape worm and round worm meds in their
> food and have managed to get Frontline on most of them while they are
> busy eating.

Which is probably about as much as you can do if you aren't going to capture
them. Don't increase the world's problems by brainlessly over-using
antibiotics.

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