Chronic Skin Conditions
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Feedback: Worms
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(Mpls., Mn)
07/07/2014
Hey Kellen!
White worms coming out of your cat's butt sound like tape worms. Tape worms are cosmetically offensive/ugly to see, but are generally harmless and pose no imminent threat to your cat.
A skinny kitten who has never been wormed can have a more serious intestinal worm like round worm; your cat might vomit or cough one up, or you might see it coiled like spaghetti coming out in the poop. Another bad worm is hookworms - which you won't see, and will cause your kitten to be very skinny and you will often see bright red blood in the poop. Round worms and hook worms can be life threatening if left untreated.
Natural remedies often are hit and miss for worms and the prepared formulas that are already mixed up that you can buy are generally very spendy. Garlic - at a safe dose for your cat - isn't going to touch the worms.
I strongly recommend you check out cat rescues in your area to see if they are able to help. Google "Los Angeles feline rescue" and start at the top of the list and work your way down. Let them know you are a minor dependent on your parents for money and that they have no money for this kitten you have taken in. If they cannot help you they may know of a program that can help you get your kitten de-wormed, vaccinated and spayed.
Good luck!
Fleas, Worms, Parasites
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I fed my cats a homemade diet following Dr Pitcarin's recipes and then later branching out on my own, starting when they were around 6 years old and 4 (a male and female). At the time, we had also moved to FL, and I started incorporating garlic (and the citrus fur rub) to stop the fleas. It worked, and I had fed them a steady diet which included fresh, minced garlic.
I started out giving them a pinch's worth of garlic (literally, pinching off a bit from a clove), and then gave them a little more, about a 1/2 clove daily in their shared food. Of course, be prepared for your cats to fight you on this - they will fling the pieces and eat the food quite carefully around it, in the beginning (who does eat raw garlic like apples?), but they will get some of the juices and some pieces will make their way in, maybe a meal that they'd eat in 2 minutes will be gone in 3 hours. They became accustom to it (so much so, when I started chopping garlic, they knew food was on its way and very excited, and I'd giving them varying flows of garlic depending upon their health, the season, parasites, etc. I treated it as a medicine, together always with raw carrots, and they did eat it daily.
I never blended the garlic in a food processor or blender because that's far too severe in terms of the garlic juice and oil that's released. I just chopped. Anyway, my cats lived to 17 and 16.5 years old. No worms, no fleas (I would leash walk them around, and travel with them), very healthy, just with a garlic breath kisses.
My 16.5 year old cat (who started eating garlic and homemade food when he was 4) could have lived longer, I know. He only passed away due to the food recall on science diet, which gave him liver cancer. I fed him that for a week while I was undergoing my finals in my graduation year at college, and I thought that it would be okay for a few days. Never again - I learned my lesson - he was completely healthy and bouncy, and became poisoned and dead within two and a half weeks. The vets I brought him to, just told me it was a shame, but "he's an old cat anyway".
(Miami Beach)
01/08/2017
I also wanted to add, for the raw (organic) garlic I gave my cats, I gave them doubled the amount of raw organic and grated carrot. I fed them the two ingredients together.
Hope This Helps.
Garlic Dosage for Cats
Infections
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(Country, Nova Scotia, Canada)
05/10/2010
Lana from Tulare, California wrote about curing her cat of an infection and fervor using pre minced garlic. She is correct that garlic is a natural anti-biotic, however she did not use the best source of this great medicine. I am an organic gardener with a very good crop of three kinds of garlic. I am also well studied in natural medicines. Garlic has two kinds of medicine in it and one kind does not last long after mincing it. The only ways I know of to preserve both kinds of medicine is using fresh live garlic cloves crushed/minced and used ASAP. The other way is to slice up and dehydrate the garlic. Of course the absolute best medicinal garlic is fresh organically grown. Be advised, animal friends, garlic from china has been irradiated and is dead, so I imagine the medicine has been destroyed as well. Another tip I can give is that store bought garlic has usually been refrigerated so it has a short shelf life, as it has been triggered to start growing. If you get garlic from an organic grower or your back yard, and keep it near room temperature, it will last many months. FYI
Is It Safe?
I have a cat that is not producing red blood cells, and so far what I have read is that it would not be a good idea. I didn't have time to read ALL the feedback, so if there is someone who has given garlic to their cat with successful results, please comment.
(Montreal, Qc, Canada)
04/24/2010
@Judy, from Long Beach CA:
You are right, there is less information about how garlic affects cats...
I've been mincing one clove of raw galic, adding it to a raw egg and then feeding it to my cat a few times a week. She is a bit hesitant at the smell, but usually eats it all. I've been doing this for about a month now and she has remained flea free & healthy through the beginning of the spring HOWEVER...
I've read comments on a few different sites from cat owners whose cats have become sick when fed garlic pills. Perhaps a small dose like the one I give my kitty will never affect her negatively, but I suppose her own genetic factors play a role and since I don't know what those are, I'm going to desist feeding her garlic. Cats and dogs ARE different.
On the other hand, I have only read positive things about adding apple cider vinegar to cat's drinking water and brewers yeast to her food, so I plan to continue with this approach over the summer.
Also, rubbing your kitty's coat with brewer's yeast, Rosemary or Lavender (or L. oil) appears to be a good repellant with no risks. I'll let you know if she stays flea free...
(Branson, Mo)
08/26/2010
To Heather from Montreal - be careful about using essential oils on cats. They will be fine for awhile but could develop problems from it later on. Reason is they lack an enzyme or chemical in their body that breaks these oils down. So it stays in their body and overtime it can become toxic to them! Can anyone verify this as a truth?
(Fairfax, Missouri)
07/11/2012
My cat just had kittens, and we thought we had gotten rid of all her fleas. I just discovered some fleas on them, and was wondering if it would be safe, and what dosage to use, to put Apple Cider Vinegar in momma cats water so the kittens could get treated as well? Or if there are any more safe remedies to help them.
(Michigan)
02/17/2022
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I just gave my cat a Garadetto's Garlic Rye chip and he ate like maybe half of the chip until I realized I should look up whether or not garlic is okay for cats. Then I obviously took the rest of the chip away from him when I found it it wasn't. I think it was such a small amount that he'll be fine, since there obviously isn't anywhere near 1/4th of a clove within a garlic seasoned rye chip. But after reading how cats supposedly hate garlic, I'm surprised my cat seemed to like it. Anyway I won't be feeding it to him anymore, it just doesn't sound worth the risk. Blood cell issues sound way worse than parasite issues. Glad to hear it's not instantly deadly at any amount though, as some websites seem to want to portray.
