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- From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant)
- Subject: Re: Kitty Valium
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.144048.13600@telesciences.com>
- Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
- References: <1hnm1iINNe94@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:40:48 GMT
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- In article <1hnm1iINNe94@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah881@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joyce Brabner) writes:
- >
- >Who has been giving this to their cats? Why? Any problems or
- >successes noted? The drug was suggested as way to help deal wi/
- >some behavior problems ( not *MY* cats! they are perfect! ;-)
- >RUTH has three little monsters, and it's been suggested that she
- >ask her vet about this drug)
- >
-
-
- Roxy is now about nine years old. She was decidedly _not_ thrilled
- when Emrys and Taliesin came along about two years ago (their mother
- was a stray who hung out around the apartment complex I was then
- living in). It wasn't so bad when they were 4 week old kittens (the
- brats living around me wouldn't leave the kittens alone - the mother
- was so skittish, she kept moving them), but when they got to be 12 and
- 18 pound monsters, her little 6 pound body was constantly
- reverberating with some horrific growls.
-
- After a year-and-a-half, however, she accepted the inevitability of
- their presence. But when I moved in with my girlfriend (and her two
- cats, _and_ her two kids) last year, Roxy got really upset. Started
- leaving little puddles for us, and all that.
-
- I got some valium for her. Basically all that it accomplished was
- that when approached (by either my two boys, or by Picasso or Chloe),
- she'd just growl a little quieter. It really didn't help all that
- much. I'd suggest that Ruth try some other methods for calming her
- cats.
-
-
- --
- Mitch Gorman srscnslt@telesciences.com emrys@cellar.org
- "You can tell he's doing well by the look in inhuman eyes,
- Better not compromise -
- It won't be easy!"
-