St. Phatty
Active member
My super-intelligent medium-athletic male cat has a tooth-ache.
The symptoms that got me started -
* drooling, a little 2 days ago, normal behavior Sunday morning
* way more drooling yesterday
* bad breath
Did a websearch & sounds like a normal cat thing.
In my experience, this kind of pain indicates damage done.
He might get teeth cleaning, to prevent future damage.
I tried to get him to consume kitty sized quantities of antibiotic & painkiller.
So my first act of the new year is going to Walmart's to buy baby nursing bottles (or maybe something similar for pets) so I can get him some meds in liquid form, if he can be convinced to drink out of a bottle. Trying to simulate what he did as a youngster.
Since for the cat IT IS DESPERATE -
he has extreme tooth pain, and his body isn't beating it on its own.
I want to relieve his pain, and get him to take some tooth-targeted antibiotics (which I have a full selection of because of my own tooth problems.)
Relieving his pain is important so here is the Stoned Thinking idea -
have any of you ever put a pet cat in a box and blown cannabis smoke in there ?
It sounds like torture but that depends on how the animal reacts.
Does Cannabis smoke help cats deal with pain ?
I don't like experimenting on the little guy but he is in some distress.
While we humans get things figured out (take him to a vet who does cat dental, maybe get a tooth removed, this next week) I want to relieve his pain as much as is realistic.
Since he won't eat his normal canned cat food with the antibiotic mixed in, I wish there was something I could pour on it that cats LOVE.
The only thing I hear people commonly recommend is Tuna Fish.
So I might buy a few cans so I can feed him Tuna Fish juice in a bottle, with the meds.
And if he would eat some, so much the better.
About the double post - something interesting is going on with the software.
Tried to edit the second duplicate - and it went editing the first post mode.
The symptoms that got me started -
* drooling, a little 2 days ago, normal behavior Sunday morning
* way more drooling yesterday
* bad breath
Did a websearch & sounds like a normal cat thing.
In my experience, this kind of pain indicates damage done.
He might get teeth cleaning, to prevent future damage.
I tried to get him to consume kitty sized quantities of antibiotic & painkiller.
So my first act of the new year is going to Walmart's to buy baby nursing bottles (or maybe something similar for pets) so I can get him some meds in liquid form, if he can be convinced to drink out of a bottle. Trying to simulate what he did as a youngster.
Since for the cat IT IS DESPERATE -
he has extreme tooth pain, and his body isn't beating it on its own.
I want to relieve his pain, and get him to take some tooth-targeted antibiotics (which I have a full selection of because of my own tooth problems.)
Relieving his pain is important so here is the Stoned Thinking idea -
have any of you ever put a pet cat in a box and blown cannabis smoke in there ?
It sounds like torture but that depends on how the animal reacts.
Does Cannabis smoke help cats deal with pain ?
I don't like experimenting on the little guy but he is in some distress.
While we humans get things figured out (take him to a vet who does cat dental, maybe get a tooth removed, this next week) I want to relieve his pain as much as is realistic.
Since he won't eat his normal canned cat food with the antibiotic mixed in, I wish there was something I could pour on it that cats LOVE.
The only thing I hear people commonly recommend is Tuna Fish.
So I might buy a few cans so I can feed him Tuna Fish juice in a bottle, with the meds.
And if he would eat some, so much the better.
About the double post - something interesting is going on with the software.
Tried to edit the second duplicate - and it went editing the first post mode.