Omega-3 Improves Your Pet Health

Ok tell me if I’m being unreasonable from a non-crazy cat lady point of view please. A little over a week ago I adotped what I was being told a 8month old shy cat who was in healthy condition with all of his shots. This is my first cat but I figure I’ll work with him he’s a cutie. Since getting him home I’ve realized he has a constant weepy eye with brown discharge, an upper respiratory infection, and a major attitude problem because of it. I also found out the cat was not altered but it said he was on the website and during a follow up call with the shelter the lady accidently told me the entire shelter had an upper respiratory infection going around which they neglected to tell me.
I’ve been doing all the standard things to help him (lysine +bathroom steam) and I have a vet appointment scheduled for tomorrow. The problem is he’s so scared or just stuck in his ways one day he will let me pet him another day he will let me begin to pet him then bite me and scratch my hand very hard. I can never know his mentality and it’s almost to the point where I’m scared to pet him because he may bite/scratch me with the intention of hurting.
My problem is I do not believe he is in the initial stages of a respiratory infection so there probably will be no cure. He will be a drain on my pocket and I won’t even get any love from him I’ll just be feeding cleaning up his poop and taking him to the vet his entire life.
Honeslty I’m 23/m this is my first cat and he wasn’t mean at the shelter just shy. Since getting used to me he’s become very mean and the fact that I was not told he was diseased really makes me mad because thats a huge financial difference as opposed to a healthy cat.
Given all these circumstances would it be unreasonable to return to the cat and just say sorry I didn’t know what I was getting into this cat is simply to much work for me plus I would prefer a healthy cat.
I love this cat it’s just I’m scared to pet him and I’m scared of future vet bills because after the adoption I found out the cat had been on clarimax for sometime to no prevail.
Am I a horrible person for even thinking of returning him or is it understandable given I was lied to regarding his health which is why he is shy in my opinion. Since getting him all I’ve done is worry about him getting better which I doubt now knowing he’s in later stages of a respiratory infection… I’m not even the same person because of this cat and constant worrying and I kind of want it to end.. problem being I don’t think my cats condition will end so I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

I have been reading up on wondering what by products mean in dry or canned pet food. I have a dog and it worries me that these by products are claimed to be left overs from parts of animals not used in a slaughter house or groceries stores. Plus the added artificial flavors, vitamins, and minerals have been discovered by the agriculture department they are not even close to being suitable for a pets nutrition after doing chemical tests on dry food. To make matters worse proven tests and reports state canned food is actually euthanize dogs/cats processed with added corn/carrots/etc. Now you wonder why dog/cat food stinks when you open that bag and get that icky stinch? All and all it makes me wonder why our four legged companions are having less and less life spans than they typically average with the on going progression of diseases and cancer problems. The health problems in dogs and cats used to not be this way but it’s getting worse because of the crap that is processed in pets food. I don’t like the idea of putting food in my dogs tummy when not even able to pronounce the ingredient or understand what it is 100%.
So what is the best diet to put my dog on???

I have two cats so i was going to but the gel where the cats would never be able to get to. My questions is that i was wondering if the gel could flake off or slide off so that my cat could lick or eat it if it fell to the ground. i would never risk their health to kill the ants. Did anyone ever use that product and knows the answer. thank you

I have been reading up on wondering what by products mean in dry or canned pet food. I have a dog and it worries me that these by products are claimed to be left overs from parts of animals not used in a slaughter house or groceries stores. Plus the added artificial flavors, vitamins, and minerals have been discovered by the agriculture department they are not even close to being suitable for a pets nutrition after doing chemical tests on dry food. To make matters worse proven tests and reports state canned food is actually euthanize dogs/cats processed with added corn/carrots/etc. Now you wonder why dog/cat food stinks when you open that bag and get that icky stinch? All and all it makes me wonder why our four legged companions are having less and less life spans than they typically average with the on going progression of diseases and cancer problems. The health problems in dogs and cats used to not be this way but it’s getting worse because of the crap that is processed in pets food. I don’t like the idea of putting food in my dogs tummy when not even able to pronounce the ingredient or understand what it is 100%.
So what is the best diet to put my dog on???

Further to Vixpetrolia’s question and link to 10 year old study, I contacted Annie Bruce, cat expert,author, and cat behavioural consultant, who has been fighting for a ban on declawing for many years and who knows the truth.This is what she says :
I believe this so called ‘study’ is the one every vet cites (done by Canadian vet Dr. Gary Landsberg.) It wasn’t really a study but a questionaire to vets about THEIR perception of the cats THEY themselves declawed. And according to their conclusions, it’s okay for cats to bite and that exercise wasn’t even considered in regard to cat health. The fact that vets continue to cite invalid data is irresponsible and greedy.
These are the stats published on my web and in my book:
Published 2/1/03 on CourierPostOnline.com, “Eighty percent of the cats that are surrendered that are declawed are euthanized because they have a behavioral problem…. Declawed cats frequently become biters and also stop using litter boxes… One or the other…,” said William Lombardi shelter director, Gloucester County , New Jersey .
A study of 163 cats that underwent onychectomy (declawing), published in the Jul/Aug 1994 Journal of Veterinary Surgery, showed that 50% suffered from immediate postoperative complications such as pain, hemorrhage, and lameness; and long-term complications, including prolonged lameness, were found in nearly 20% of the 121 cats who were followed up on in the study.
In a study published in the January, 2001 JAVMA, 33% of 39 cats that underwent onychectomy developed “at least” one behavior problem immediately after surgery, with the most common problems being litter box problems and biting.
In a recent study published October, 2001, JAVMA by Dr. Gary J. Patronek, VMD, PhD., “…declawed cats were at an increased risk of relinquishment.”
A recent national survey of shelters from the Caddo Parrish Forgotten Felines and Friends indicates that approximately 70% of cats turned in to shelters for behavioral problems are declawed.
From the Summer 2002 issue of PETA’s Animal Times: “A survey by a Delaware animal shelter showed that more than 75% of the cats turned in for avoiding their litter boxes had been declawed.” [emphasis added]
In my own three-year experience, 95% of calls about declawed cats related to litter box problems, while only 46% of clawed cats had such problems—and most of those were older cats with physical ailments. Of my calls, only declawed cats have cost their owners security deposits, leather sofas and floorboards. And it’s mostly declawed cats that have been prescribed pain killers, anti-depressants, tranquilizers and steroids. Two-thirds of my calls are about litter box problems. In 90% of those cases, the cat is declawed, sick or old. In 7 years, only 3 people have called about a “scratching-the-sofa problem” – yet countless of “healthy” declawed cats have peed on sofas.
Annie Bruce