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Again, here is Coco's anxiety. I had him to the vet a couple weeks ago and he got Metacam. That's gone now. I cannot afford it from the vet am looking into getting a prescription now for online. This does not help the anxiety. When I was at the vet she told me before we get into medication to try training. She told me bc he is so attached to me we have to work on that and when we come home after school to walk him to releive his energy pent up. She told me in the meantime to get Rescue Remedy available at my workplace (Dominion, Loblaw chain). I went there and the only holistic anxiety remedy there is from Holistic Blend called herbal calmer. http://www.holisticblend.com/en/health-products/alternative-aids/herbal-calmer/ The recommended dose for his weight was 1/4 dropper.. . This did not phase him. I upped the dose and it still only calms him down long enough until he sees me get my coat.
This last week while left alone, Coco has managed to tear our room every day. He drags his bed apart, clothes all over the floor and into the hall, he has roasted through the bunny gate- got into the closet and tore up Acacia's little house. She's calm by the time I get home, safe on the high levels but he must be scaring her. Yesterday Matt came home before me and Coco, in the 1 hour we were gone, managed to get into the closet, tear out all her blankets off the levels and tip over her water, got the litter box out and int the room. Hay and poop and wasted newspapers everywhere. Today the recyclables bags in the coat closet downstairs were scattered all over the hall up to the front door. He had also pushed open my roommates/landlord's bedroom door and I don't know if that room was messy before but it is now. I have to see when he gets home. Last night we got the baby gate from the basement and barricaded the closet off, so that was not a problem today.
Anyway, sorry for the paragraphing!!
I just called the vet. She won't be in until tomorrow morning and I left an urgent message that she call me. What do you guys think about prozac and selegiline? Are they affordable, even in generic? I need Coco to be calm while we are gone. I do not want my landlord to change his mind now. Coc's is 13 and I know there must be a form of dementia going on, he must trance in fear. What are symptoms of panic attacks? He has been going downhill just the last 2 or 3 weeks.
On a different note his 2 back legs, and moreso the right one, are causing him to collapse. While walking he still has the pride to lift his leg to pee and while doing so he wobbles like an infant. The only thing I can do for him until I get the prescription for pain meds is to stretch out his legs and massage the joints. He seems to not mind, it does not seem to hurt him. They shake when he sleeps. I cannot afford another vet check up atm, until I get my tax refund. And the vet who is calling me tomorrow I WILL NOT take him to again. She seems to think its a psychological thing but I think I can milk a prescription out of her tomorrow which wil be faster relief than my tax refund.
Here is where me and Matt disagree. He knows since metacam alone will be a couple hundred $ a year that we should let him live out without it. I am adamantly FOR a solution. I want Coco to be comfortable even it means he passed away in a week. We cannot understand what state of mind he is in while we are away and how upsetting it must be given his habits and fear of simple sounds. I want to keep searching for a cheap anti-anxiety med while also relieving his pain. . . Any thoughts or suggestions??
This last week while left alone, Coco has managed to tear our room every day. He drags his bed apart, clothes all over the floor and into the hall, he has roasted through the bunny gate- got into the closet and tore up Acacia's little house. She's calm by the time I get home, safe on the high levels but he must be scaring her. Yesterday Matt came home before me and Coco, in the 1 hour we were gone, managed to get into the closet, tear out all her blankets off the levels and tip over her water, got the litter box out and int the room. Hay and poop and wasted newspapers everywhere. Today the recyclables bags in the coat closet downstairs were scattered all over the hall up to the front door. He had also pushed open my roommates/landlord's bedroom door and I don't know if that room was messy before but it is now. I have to see when he gets home. Last night we got the baby gate from the basement and barricaded the closet off, so that was not a problem today.
Anyway, sorry for the paragraphing!!
I just called the vet. She won't be in until tomorrow morning and I left an urgent message that she call me. What do you guys think about prozac and selegiline? Are they affordable, even in generic? I need Coco to be calm while we are gone. I do not want my landlord to change his mind now. Coc's is 13 and I know there must be a form of dementia going on, he must trance in fear. What are symptoms of panic attacks? He has been going downhill just the last 2 or 3 weeks.
On a different note his 2 back legs, and moreso the right one, are causing him to collapse. While walking he still has the pride to lift his leg to pee and while doing so he wobbles like an infant. The only thing I can do for him until I get the prescription for pain meds is to stretch out his legs and massage the joints. He seems to not mind, it does not seem to hurt him. They shake when he sleeps. I cannot afford another vet check up atm, until I get my tax refund. And the vet who is calling me tomorrow I WILL NOT take him to again. She seems to think its a psychological thing but I think I can milk a prescription out of her tomorrow which wil be faster relief than my tax refund.
Here is where me and Matt disagree. He knows since metacam alone will be a couple hundred $ a year that we should let him live out without it. I am adamantly FOR a solution. I want Coco to be comfortable even it means he passed away in a week. We cannot understand what state of mind he is in while we are away and how upsetting it must be given his habits and fear of simple sounds. I want to keep searching for a cheap anti-anxiety med while also relieving his pain. . . Any thoughts or suggestions??