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- From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
- Subject: Re: Kitty Valium
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.061357.11762@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
- Sender: news@rigel.econ.uga.edu
- Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens
- References: <1hnm1iINNe94@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec31.133149.9609@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:13:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.133149.9609@iscsvax.uni.edu> klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >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)
- >
- >By kitty valium, I guess you're talking about acepromazine, which
- >is the most common tranquilizer for cats around this neck of the
- >woods. It's chemically related to the human tranquilizer chlorpromazine,
- >not to valium.
- >
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- We have on one occasion had real human valium prescribed for
- a cat, at the 1 mg level. When Mac was in his terminal
- feline leukemia phase, he had no interest in food. The valium
- gave him the munchies, much as pot does to humans. It worked
- for a couple of days, but then that was it.
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- Wayne
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