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Post by sageandonion on Mar 31, 2010 7:47:26 GMT
I have just come back with the cats having had their annual jabs, to be told, yet again, they need a dental for gingivitis and may or may not have more teeth removed.
This is the third year running and I am getting rather annoyed about it. Are these small animal vets taking the mick? It is £150 each cat, making £300 in total for a dental and more for antibiotics if a tooth is taken out.
Vet make a big thing about some scratches from a fight which I had clipped the fur off and treated with hibiscrub and aluminium spray, declaring I might need antibiotics. It happened three weeks ago!
I am going to tell my husband that is it, no more pouches, dried food only. These are from feral stock cats now domesticated so you would think they would be tough and they eat plenty of mice.
Does anyone know of anything else I could do about mild gingivitis?
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Post by vet nurse on Apr 7, 2010 6:50:03 GMT
hexirinse. speak to your vet about it!
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Post by sageandonion on Apr 7, 2010 13:25:16 GMT
Thankyou vet nurse, have just order some.
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Post by sarah00000 on Apr 8, 2010 6:56:42 GMT
Gosh sagey, I do think your vets may see you coming (through the window, with their binoculars, spying out for rich clients, driving posh sparkley discos?)
How much was the hexirinse? Do you now have to teach your cats to gargle?
How old are you little lovelies? Mr Pickle is 14 and they have never said a word about his teeth?
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Post by fosters on Apr 14, 2010 16:01:00 GMT
Our vet recently told us that our 9 month old cat has this as well. As she's young there is no tooth decay or plaque but her gums are very red.
She said we need to brush the teath every day!! oh what fun. I'm in the process of trying to decide what to order from Vet UK Ltd. They do tooth brushes, fish flavour tooth paste as well as this mouthwash stuff that (strange as it may sound) might actually be easier than having to brush the teeth.
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Post by sageandonion on Apr 15, 2010 15:56:08 GMT
well the mouthwash is £6.99. However, using it is, shall we say, challenging. Sage and Onion are having none of it with Onion totally traumatised. As Onion is deaf and a bit on another planet most of the time, I have decided not to persist with him. I have put them on the Perscription Diet especially for teeth but my husband still insists on feeding pouches. Perscription Diet doesn't need a perscription and is much cheaper on the net than at the vets.
These girl thingy cats are from feral stock but their mother died when they were three weeks so they were hand reared. How would they manage in the wild without £300 per year spent on the hygenist!
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kayjayem
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Post by kayjayem on Apr 15, 2010 19:43:32 GMT
Their teeth would fall out and they'd give mousies love bites??
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Post by fosters on Apr 15, 2010 20:20:30 GMT
Ok might have to rethink the mouthwash...was just hoping I'd be able to squirt it in her mouth. But I guess I'd get one shot at that, then she'd be wary next time I came over to her.
Maybe I'll get the teath cleaning dry food...typical, Pets at Home had a 3 for 2 on Hills biscuits last week....I have 3 huge great big bags full of the stuff :-(
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Post by vet nurse on Apr 16, 2010 18:45:48 GMT
if you are having trouble with the oral rinse then our dental nurse adv clients to either use a 1ml syringe to limit volume and stop them throthing at the mouth or to use a cotton bud soaked in the rinse for the even harder cases. might be worth a go. hope this helps
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Post by sageandonion on Apr 16, 2010 21:32:28 GMT
That's a good idea, I think the cotton bud will work better and I could make a little game with it. It is the squirting in mine don't like, they sort of get a bit of a shock with it.
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Post by fosters on Apr 22, 2010 13:58:37 GMT
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joey
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Post by joey on May 9, 2010 15:25:14 GMT
one other thing you could try is hills t/d dried food you can get samples from your vets its good for teeth
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Post by Nurse on Jun 5, 2010 18:52:49 GMT
I'd recommend Royal Canin dental over Hills t/d. It's been shown to work better as it's not just the mechanical action of the tooth on the kibble but it also has sodium polyphosphates which bind to the excess calcium in saliva and help prevent it forming tartar, then there is also their patented plaque reduction nutrient! (sorry very keen on this diet!!)
Of course nothing is better than brushing but this is really only possible if you start them young. Sadly we are seeing more and more pets with dental issues and it is generally cats and small dogs. Thinking about it dentals are the most common ops we do in practice at the moment!
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Post by sageandonion on Jun 5, 2010 21:10:59 GMT
nurse, really naughty unfair question to ask, but no one know who you are in the 'real' world so that's ok:
do you think that there might be a little bit too much keeness to do dentals?
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