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Sooooo we took Fern to the vet today. After the traumatizing events of last time, we picked up a sedative from the vet in advance in the hopes that it would keep her from trying to attack me/Matt/the other cats in the waiting room/the vet.
Well, she didn't try to attack the other cats, anyway. *facepalm* For her next appointment, the vet gave us the ok to increase the dose of sedative from a half-pill to a whole one. And if that doesn't work, evidently they make Xanax for cats. (...which evidently is the same as Xanax for humans, and is administered in a .25mg dosage, so I could probably just give Fern one of mine. But I'll probably buy the cat-specific kind anyway; hopefully it doesn't taste as foul as human Xanax does or we'll never get her to take it, even with a pill pocket.)
The nice thing is that, even though she turns into a ferocious hellbeast at the vet's and yowls mournfully in the car ride to and from, once we get home she's perfectly calm and cuddly and bears us no ill will. So at least there's that.
Well, she didn't try to attack the other cats, anyway. *facepalm* For her next appointment, the vet gave us the ok to increase the dose of sedative from a half-pill to a whole one. And if that doesn't work, evidently they make Xanax for cats. (...which evidently is the same as Xanax for humans, and is administered in a .25mg dosage, so I could probably just give Fern one of mine. But I'll probably buy the cat-specific kind anyway; hopefully it doesn't taste as foul as human Xanax does or we'll never get her to take it, even with a pill pocket.)
The nice thing is that, even though she turns into a ferocious hellbeast at the vet's and yowls mournfully in the car ride to and from, once we get home she's perfectly calm and cuddly and bears us no ill will. So at least there's that.