Flea shampoos and dips are nasty stuff! Ask your vet about Revolution or Advantage for flea preventatives.

Hope she gets better soon.

But I gotta ask . . . why would you have lactated ringers around the house and what does the Karo syrup do?

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Oh honey - what a day!!!

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"When I'm old, I don't want them to say of me, "She's so charming." I want them to say, "Be careful, I think she's armed." -G. Stoddart

kitty hugs from me and my pack , to you, your children, and your cat,
It sound like you acted quickly, and a protesting cat is always a good sign.

I like to think there is a deity/angel who looks afer all 4 legged furres, I'm sending a pray up now, and asking for a few extra lives

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May the bad things get lost on the way to you door!

I'm sorry you had such a lousy day, Puffles. I hope everyone is feeling better now.

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Thank you all for the well wishes and hugs. Unfortunately we had to say good bye today. She got so bad this morning she didn't even recognize me and crawled up under the foldout couch where there's barely 3 inches of space and got stuck. She was trying to die. Took me 40 mins to even find her. That's when I knew it was time.

It's hard but kids are doing ok through tears and some laughter. My poor oldest turned 13 today, heck of a way to celebrate her birthday. No one feels like eating so we are putting her b-day party off until the weekend.

As for shampoo and ringers... The only reason I had the flea shampoo was becuase I was told a long time ago it was good for shampoo even if there were no fleas. No fleas in my house (NE gets cold enough to kill them off in the winter and we used advantage to get rid of them before we moved here.)
I just had it to bathe them in. Never in a million years knew about the Pyrethrins or I would have thrown it away and used dove soap. Terribly late lesson to learn I know.

Had ringers at home due to back in Dec between Christmas and New Years she was severally dehydrated and she has no veins to hit so we gave her sub Q fluids. The vet let me give her ringers at that time to off set her dehydration. The vet told me last week when she started having severe diarrhea to give her a 100 cc's a day. As for the karo syrup she was crashing and a few drops of karo syrup gives enough sugar to help stimulate from hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Being diabetic I thought the way she was acting was due to her sugar being too low. It wasn't until after seeing the vet we found out it was the shampoo that caused her to crash.

She had pulmonary edema which is fluid around her lungs due to her congestive heart failure. We were giving her lasix to pull the fluid off around her lungs and heart and glipside for her diabetes. We knew it was only a matter of time. Poor things had diabetes for 2 1/2 yrs and got sick at Christmas. At least we got 3 more months with her.

I guess being an Ex-Vet Tech had some use. The Dr's gave me free rein with her treatment as they saw fit. Never once hesitated in letting me treat her at home. Which was good cause she hated the vet's office. We miss her terribly but she was definitely dying. Was an easier way to let her go, hard on us easier for her. We even had the whole veterinary staff crying along with us. The Vet even stated that if he died and was reincarnated he wanted to come back as a cat and live in our home. Letting us know we did everything we could.

My poor little 10 yr old is blaming herself but it wasn't just the flea shampoo. She started snapping out of that around 6 last night. She just finally gave up is what I'm thinking.

I too believe angels watch over our fur babies,
in fact KK (13yr old) stated she saw several clouds with angel shapes. Sun was shinning when we left and I believe it was her smiling and happy that she can now run again, climb and jump. She loved to do all 3. Several of my past fur babies are waiting to welcome her, I truly believe. Just so numb right now and wore out. Missing our

Thanks again to you all,

to you on the loss of Dutchess. Obviously she was well loved and knew it, but knew it was time to move away from the pain and on to a better place.

Such a sad way for her to depart, but it sounds like you know she has been welcomed by previous pets you have had.

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

I hope your daughter is able to have a proper birthday this weekend.

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Pufles....there are not enough words in the world to tell you how sorry I am to hear about your loss.

I've lost several furkids of different types over the years and each one is stamped forever on my heart and soul. My idea of heaven is that they all will be there waiting for me when it's my time...

Duchess was loved to the moment she was gone, with so many poor abused and stray animals out there, that is something to hold close - especially when her passing hurts the most. She was loved and cared for and I am sure if she could have she would have said thank you.

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Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. ~Eliza Cook

Hugs Pufles, kids do things unaware of the danger sometimes. I have a cat too and little girls that adore him too much somedays. He's had a few narrow escapes. (He's an old cat, 16yrs old)

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Oh Pufles- I am so sorry to hear this...the loss of a pet is so devastating. Duchess was so lucky to have you!

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