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Originally Posted by Amy S in PBC
During my cats last visit to the vet, they urged me to bring him in for a dental cleaning - saying his teeth will fall out and he won't be able to eat properly. So, I brought my 9 year old healthy cat in last Tuesday for a routine dental cleaning. 2 hours later, the vet called saying my cat was dead. I was/am devastated!!!
The vet claimed that my cat had an adverse reaction to anesthesia. He said he finished cleaning the teeth, then found one that needed to be removed, pulled it and started stitching it up and my cats tongue turned blue, heart rate dropped, then he died.
I asked the vet if it were in fact an adverse reaction, why didn't it happen during the whole teeth cleaning - adding, "ya think you left him under too long and gave him too much anesthesia when you worked on the tooth?" He said there's no way to know. I said, "then how do you know it was and adverse reaction", and basically lost it at that point and flipped out on the guy.
Needless to say, I will never bring another pet in for a teeth cleaning - I'll learn to do it myself... that is, if I ever get another one.
I was just wondering if anyone has experienced this - how common is it, and why aren't people being told of the dangers? I wasn't!
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I'm sorry so for your loss! I lost a cat prematurely due to veterinary care (I;m convinced) as well. The sad fact is that orthodox veterinarians are best trained to treat ACUTE conditions they are terrible when it comes to knowing anything about prevention or diet or restoring health.
I HIGHLY recommend you start reading books about Natural Medicine for pets. A good basic one is Natural Health for Dogs and Cats by Dr Pitcairn DVM. Another excellent one is The NEW Natural Cat by Anitra Frazier.
My two cats that I've had as an adult had great dispositions and never needed anesthesia. They'd let the vet open their mouth and scrape the tarter off with me there watching. You need to find a vet that really likes cats or that specializes in cats. Better yet try to find one that not only does that but also is trained in Natural Health Care. I found a holistic vet that I took my current cat to where I used to live. Now I just take him to a regular vet but they seem to like cats so i don't think I will have a problem when its time for him to get his teeth cleaned. Actually, he will let me open his mouth to look inside and perhaps I should get him used to it and try scraping the tarter with my fingernails that I've seen the vet do. I will NOT allow anesthesia.
Thanks to my not having this cat vaccinated regularly and not giving him dry food l(ike I was told to do for my other cat which ended up giving him FUS) and instead giving my cat mostly a home prepared natural raw meat diet that you can read about at
www.felinefuture.com, he's now 12 or 13 but acts about 8.
My first cat was an apparent Maine Coon and I was devastated when he died suddenly at only 9 years of age also. The morning of the day he died he seemed fine but when i came nhom that afternoon, he wasn't right by the door waiting for me like he always was. I searched the house and found him stiff and cold. He probably developed cardiomyopathy from all the vaccinations. There were even articles in Cat Fancy magazine about it.
I was a wreck for a LONG TIME. Months after he died, out of the blue I'd start crying like a baby. I thought I could NEVER go through the pain of a loss like this again. I thought I was a jinx or something but a year later, a lady on a cat email list I was on told me about a stray cat that was possibly a Maine Coon that a lady was trying to find a home for because it didn't get along with her other cats. So she convinced me to drive four hours to meet her and for the two of us to go look at the cat with the hope being that I would take the cat.
It turned out he was a beautiful Norwegian Forest cat that I can't believe anyone would give up or not care about. He had had episodes of FUS while at the foster home where I met him. This time I decided I would take care of him naturally and bring him to the vet as little as possible. He was 2 or 3 when I brought him home. That was 10 years ago. Besides giving him a good diet I make sure he gets about 200mgs twice a day of Vit C in his food which melts the crystals that form in the urinary tracts of male cats and can block the urinary tract and kill the cat. This preventative measure has kept FUS attacks at bay. He had had one attack earlier on during a stressful time when a neighborhood tom cat was stalking him and would hang out outside the picture window and stress my cat out. I ended up having to cover the windows so my cat couldn't see this cat when he'd come by.
The stress this cat caused resulted in my cat getting a terrible FUS attack and it took cathetarization to undo the blockage, prednizone for the inflamation AND a whole regime of natural herbs in his food as well as keeping the windows covered, to get his urinary tract healed. Ever since then, the Vit C keeps his urinary tract open and at our new house he is no longer bothered by mean neighborhood cats. His immune system is nice and strong as I occasionally let him outside in the enclosed courtyard and the fleas in the garden ignore him.
(I trained both cats to do tricks and to understand various commands. Cats are so smart.They can be trained to be hearing for the deaf you know. My cats learned some of the tricks in minutes. You must get another cat. They are such wonderful companions!)
You'll also want to stay away from those horrid spot on flea treatments. During one stressful time in my life and my cat's life(when I was giving him canned food not home prepared) his immune system weakened enough for fleas to begin to be a problem. Since I didn't know how to apply the natural powder very well, and his coat is so long, I ended up resorting to using half of one dose of Advantage to finally get rid of the fleas and give my cat some relief --but I wish I hadn't as a week or so later, my cat had a seizure. Luckily I have a naturopathic doctor I use who recommended some herbal nerve drops that I mixed into his food to stop him from seizing. I also finally learned how to use the natural flea powder (with Neem and diatomaceous earth in it) which I needed to use to finally permanently get rid of the fleas. I also switched back to the home made diet and there hasn't been a problem in ages.
Between my naturopathic doctor who I consult by phone now that I'm 1000 miles away, a decent vet that likes cats, my knowledge of natural medicine and a good natural diet for my cat, I'm hoping this cat will live a long long time.
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