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Where can I take my sick cat for little to no cost in NYC?

Alan — Sat, 07 May 2011 21:24:57 +0000

Question by sunny s: Where can I take my sick cat for little to no cost in NYC?
Before I even start, I have read through all the other answers to questions like this…Unlike people on here who just up and got a cat while broke or something—I rescued him as a kitten, and have had him for 15 years, and he’s vocal, normally goes to the vet for his shots and is healthy and very happy. I have always had the money to take care of him, but have been unemployed for the past year. So please, don’t bother to answer things like “you shouldn’t own an animal if you can’t pay to take him to the vet”.please. I have had it for 15 years, I’m just unemployed…There is nothing I can do about that, and he is my life. If you are a vet and would consider trading my web and design skills for services, please let me know…references upon request!!!
For everyone actually willing to give me real answers—I need them! He has seasonal allergies, and I usually take him in for steroid treatments each season—which my vet in texas said was optional anyway, since they go away on their own and are just like ours, annoying but not awful– but this winter he has kept his sneeze, snotty nose, and snores…I think he has developed a sinus infection and needs antibiotics…The house is free of dust and such. I’m worried about him because it usually only lasts a week or two but this has been going on for almost 2 months. Yet he is active, chasing things, jumping, causing trouble as usual, but its lingered toooooooo long. His hairballs have either gotten worse or he has developed a cough, as well. Is there somewhere I can take him that is cheap or free in NYC? I haven’t found a good vet here, they all are so quick/snappy/uncaring with him… (don’t make me tell you about the ’special’ food I was to give him that gave him crystals…next vet said I should put him on HIS special food instead…you get the idea.) I won’t be able to pay rent if I take him to them to get him treated, and especially since the treatment was so half-assed since I moved here two years ago. Seriously, I am only getting enough to cover our food and rent right now. I am hoping there is some guidance out there for a down on her luck woman and her lifetime buddy.
please help.
thank you

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Answer by Maria
Bensonhurst Low Cost Animal
1951 Bath Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11214 (718) 256-1900

very affordable

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Q&A: my dogs and I are sick?

Alan — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:24:56 +0000

Question by Red: my dogs and I are sick?
I have 2 male dogs. For the past year I have wanted a third, a little girl. I finally went to the pound and found just what I wanted. This was a Friday. She had been in the pound 1 day. The next day I woke up with a sore throat which turned into a hacking cough with chest and nasal congestion. Tuesday and Wed I could hardly sleep because I was up hacking. My youngest male sleeps in our bed, my oldest sleeps on the floor and my girl was sleeping in her crate the 1st few weeks.
Please don’t think I am crazy, I am a RN so I know this is going to sound nuts. Thurs morning my youngest male got up with a hacking cough. By evening I didn’t notice it. Fri morning it was back and I noticed he was snoring when he slept (which he doesn’t do normally). I took my girl to get spayed, and took my youngest male to the vet. The vet was rude and made me seem crazy for even insinuating he and I had the same thing. She sent me home with delta albaplex x 3 1 tab BID. My youngest male weighs 45 lbs, his dose should have been 2tabs BID, AND he should have only been on the dose with prednisone for 48hrs. With her dosing he should have had the incorrect dose x 10days.
My other 2 dogs were asymptomatic until I picked my girl up from the spay and neuter clinic. She had thick green mucous coming from both nares with a cough. I took her home and cleaned her nose with Q-tips. Her nose and mouth smelled like psudomonas. After I cleaned her the green discharge never returned. My vet was willing to give me the delta albaplex x3 for my other 2 dogs (my girl weighed 30lbs, my oldest male 75lbs) again half the correct dose. I told the people at the vet that the dose was wrong, they told me “you should just follow what the vet says.” So I followed the proper dose that I had researched and thus my dogs only recieved 5 days worth. Note my dogs never had vomiting, diarrhea, wheezing, and have had good appetite and drinking as normal.
When they finished the antibiotic the coughing was gone, my girl who was previously lethargic and calm was now hyper and playing. This was the following Weds. Thurs my friend brought her female over to play. By Fri night my dogs were sneezing, Sat morning their noses were dry, by Sun they were sneezing dark yellow mucous, by Mon (when I took my girl BACK to the vet) the mucous was brown tinged and thick. My friends dog was asymptomatice except for being “more calm and tired” than normal. However our lymphs under our jaws are enlarged.
I have done some research and it seems like some type of strep (maybe equi). I saw a different vet at the office and told him about what had happened, he didn’t refute what I said, but down played how sick my dogs were. I told him I did not want my dogs on any more steroids. He said “ya they’re only supposed to be on that for a few days any how.” He wrote for Doxycycline (the right doses) and Hydralizine for all 3 dogs. Of course as I left they were disinfecting the room and all the areas my girl had left mucous. I then started on Doxycycline too and 1 day later started expelling mucous from the respiratory tract and nasal passages.
My boys noses are wet again, my oldest is no longer sneezing, my youngest still sneezes some, but now my girl has a dry cough and her nose is still dry. They have been on antibiotics for 1 week now and have a few days left. I have researched zoonotic diseases and none of the s/s seem to be exact to ours. Whatever it is, it is contagious. My mother in laws dog has it (he sees a different vet and was put on Doxy) and my friends dog has it too. My friend is having the same malaise as my girl and her girl did in the begining. Maybe it is coincidence that my dogs and I became ill at the same time and have the same s/s, but this is bizzare. I am not asking for a diagnosis or treatment suggestions, just thoughts on what it might be? I swear I’m not crazy!
Just an FYI, I thought my dogs were better, they were asymptomatic when my friend brought her dog over. As for my mother in law I told her not to bring her dog that mine were sick, but she insisted because she had no one else to look after him. I am completely aware of resistant strains and that a virus cannot be cured with antibiotics. Also, I saw a different vet at the same clinic because I didn’t trust the other one. I work in an ER and have spoken with numerous doctors who seem to agree it is bacterial.

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Answer by Launi ~Thundering ~ Wild Angels~
Canine Influenza. Not suppose to be contagious to humans but there is no hard evidence it isn’t.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/canine/

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My Doberman Puppy Is Breathing Hard It Sounds Like He Is Snoring Is That Normal Or Is He Sick ?

Alan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:06:01 +0000

He might have a cold, which is common amoung puppies. I would call your vet.

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