During the summer season one of the more common phone calls or questions asked is what an animal guardian can do for their pet who is so frightened of thunderstorms or fireworks. These are two common sounds heard by pets in the summer nights, often causing severe anxiety, restlessness, and sometimes sleepless pets and animal guardians.
While it is not fully understood who certain pets develop this common phobia at some point in their life, there are many treatment options available that can often help such pets get through this difficult time of year. I will always initially try natural approaches first by using supplements such as Be Serene, Composure Liquid, or Homeopet Anxiety drops. If these gentler approaches don’t initially work, there are many prescription pet meds that can be tried. Many veterinarians will often try the prescription medication Acepromazine, which while effective in many pets, can sometimes cause excessive sedation in some pets, while not helping other pets at all. In these other cases prescription Xanax or Amitriptyline are other options that veterinarians can prescribe if appropriate and necessary.
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I have a 15yo male cat and we have been going the a series of problems lately. First he has been eating dry food for years but I noticed that he was vomiting undigested food alone with hair balls that was last year so I started giving him wet food. He had been doing fine with that until a couple of months ago and the vomiting started again. I took him to the vet, he could not figure out what was wrong. So he gave me some cat-lax and antiboitics told me that this will help him to pass the hairball through his bowls. My cat started feeling and acting better for a week or so. Then something new started, his behavior jumping on high things such as tables, back end of couchs, dhaving his bowl movement on the outside of his box and consitant ly twiching his tail and grooming himself, restlessnes. So I took him to another vet, he also could not figure out what is going on the my cat. He mentioned something about sensitivity and gave me some pills to give him. Please help!!!
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Thank you for these solutions, i prefer to try the natural treatments before medications.
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Dr. Michael Dym, VMD veterinarian Reply:
March 18th, 2011 at 9:53 pm
That is always a good idea.
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