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Feline Vitamin recommendations
In an earlier post I asked about Feline AIDS. The vet has been helpful in
keeping him comfortable and happy but has recommended vitamin supplements in addition to his medication, specifically "B" vitamins. In a nut shell, the vet charges too much as do the local pet shops (Japan) for vitamins and the internet boggles my mind on selection. That said, is there a kick ass vitamin supplement for kitties that they will like (That I can Order ON LINE) and won't deplete the beer allowance my wife gives me? TIA M |
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buy human vitamins. they are the same thing.
I would also highly recommend vitamin c "Molson" wrote in message ... In an earlier post I asked about Feline AIDS. The vet has been helpful in keeping him comfortable and happy but has recommended vitamin supplements in addition to his medication, specifically "B" vitamins. In a nut shell, the vet charges too much as do the local pet shops (Japan) for vitamins and the internet boggles my mind on selection. That said, is there a kick ass vitamin supplement for kitties that they will like (That I can Order ON LINE) and won't deplete the beer allowance my wife gives me? TIA M |
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"Molson" wrote in message
... In an earlier post I asked about Feline AIDS. The vet has been helpful in keeping him comfortable and happy but has recommended vitamin supplements in addition to his medication, specifically "B" vitamins. In a nut shell, the vet charges too much as do the local pet shops (Japan) for vitamins and the internet boggles my mind on selection. That said, is there a kick ass vitamin supplement for kitties that they will like (That I can Order ON LINE) and won't deplete the beer allowance my wife gives me? TIA M I can't help with the best vitamin combination, amounts, or otherwise, but if you can use human vitamins Costco in Japan is an excellent place to get them more cheaply. They don't have as many as available at Costco in the US or Canada, but they have B-complex, C, E, and a multi-vitamin, I think. If you're nowhere near a Costco or don't have a membership, I'd be happy to pick some up and ship them to you. With the post office now doing Takkyubin-type service, it would still be cheaper than getting them at some over-priced Japanese store. I'm in Hyogo, btw, so if you're anywhere near Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto, you're welcome to tag along to see the selection yourself. I've been pretty frustrated with the vet care offered to me here in Japan. I don't have a cat (mine is safely back in Canada with my mother) here but have had two foster cats for short periods of time. The first one had a vaginal infection which the vet wanted to wait to treat--it, of course, only got worse and required double the amount of time to treat. With the second cat, I wanted to have him fixed at 4 months and the vet insisted it was too young, giving us out-dated information about early-neutering. It's all very frustrating. rona -- ***For e-mail, replace .com with .ca Sorry for the inconvenience!*** |
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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote in message ... "Molson" wrote in message ... In an earlier post I asked about Feline AIDS. The vet has been helpful in keeping him comfortable and happy but has recommended vitamin supplements in addition to his medication, specifically "B" vitamins. In a nut shell, the vet charges too much as do the local pet shops (Japan) for vitamins and the internet boggles my mind on selection. That said, is there a kick ass vitamin supplement for kitties that they will like (That I can Order ON LINE) and won't deplete the beer allowance my wife gives me? TIA M I can't help with the best vitamin combination, amounts, or otherwise, but if you can use human vitamins Costco in Japan is an excellent place to get them more cheaply. They don't have as many as available at Costco in the US or Canada, but they have B-complex, C, E, and a multi-vitamin, I think. If you're nowhere near a Costco or don't have a membership, I'd be happy to pick some up and ship them to you. With the post office now doing Takkyubin-type service, it would still be cheaper than getting them at some over-priced Japanese store. I'm in Hyogo, btw, so if you're anywhere near Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto, you're welcome to tag along to see the selection yourself. I've been pretty frustrated with the vet care offered to me here in Japan. I don't have a cat (mine is safely back in Canada with my mother) here but have had two foster cats for short periods of time. The first one had a vaginal infection which the vet wanted to wait to treat--it, of course, only got worse and required double the amount of time to treat. With the second cat, I wanted to have him fixed at 4 months and the vet insisted it was too young, giving us out-dated information about early-neutering. It's all very frustrating. rona People vitamins OK? Go figure. I suppose what I meant was what is the best tuna flavor... well you know, kitty vitamins. I can't believe we cut a flintstone vitamin into quarters and have Frenchie choke it down. But if that is it, great. Thanks for the offer, but we're on Okinawa . Japanese vets... arrghh! We went through 3 before we settled with the one we have now. Yes, Army vet service is available but ... NO. The Japanese vet we have now is empathetic to our kitty's well being, and is only vague when we plied him about the drugs he was using. They mean well but... We're well over Ju Man Yen in office visits and drugs. M |
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"Molson" wrote in message ... People vitamins OK? Go figure. I suppose what I meant was what is the best tuna flavor... well you know, kitty vitamins. I can't believe we cut a flintstone vitamin into quarters and have Frenchie choke it down. But if that is it, great. Thanks for the offer, but we're on Okinawa . Japanese vets... arrghh! We went through 3 before we settled with the one we have now. Yes, Army vet service is available but ... NO. The Japanese vet we have now is empathetic to our kitty's well being, and is only vague when we plied him about the drugs he was using. They mean well but... We're well over Ju Man Yen in office visits and drugs. M If you have an APO/FPO address, you can get mail order from www.drsfostersmith.com . I like the company, and have never had any problems from them (they don't ship outside the US and Puerto Rico except to APO/FPO addresses, though). They have liver-flavoured multi-vitamins ( http://tinyurl.com/4ckq8 ) and it would be easier to give your cat those than to determine how much of a human vitamin to give him. It has B12, E, folic acid and Zinc--four of the things I've read are good for cats who are FIV+ (but no vitamin C). Plus it's liver flavoured, and what cat wouldn't love that!?!?! (Well, maybe mine wouldn't, but she'd like cheese-flavoured ones) They're $8.99/100 only so it won't cut into your beer allowance too much, I think :-). They also have http://tinyurl.com/482bd which has vitamin C, but I couldn't find any other information about it the other vitamins, etc. It's only $7.99 for 60 tablets and it gets cheaper if you order more. And, if you order from drsfostersmith, you can order your cats a Da Bird ( http://tinyurl.com/562dc ) or two while you're at it! They'd love it, I'm sure! And I've not found a similar toy here in Japan (one that whirls around like Da Bird does). Japanese vets...sigh! Human doctors here are just as bad if not worse, though, but I finally found one that is good! If he could only speak English, he'd be perfect but at least I get to practise my Japanese with him. Now don't get me started on dentists, though! rona -- ***For e-mail, replace .com with .ca Sorry for the inconvenience!*** |
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