I want to report an experience I had with my dog and my cat.
They were both taken to the vet at the same time and, according to the blood tests, they both had liver problems. I can't remember the exact details, but they were prescribed Silycure. These were large round tablets. The cat had a slightly smaller dose, I think it was a quarter of a tablet, and the dog had half a tablet in the morning and half in the evening, I believe.
Anyway, within a week, they both had a stroke.
The cat fell off the table at 3 am and died in just 30 minutes right in front of us, with nothing we could do. He was trying to scratch his ear really hard with his back paw, and his head was tilted. He didn't even have time to get to the vet. He took one last breath and that was it.
Three days later, the dog had a stroke in the middle of the night, with his head tilting. I couldn't get hold of the vet. He didn't go until the next morning. And then, the diagnosis came: a stroke.
For the dog, it's 100% certain it was a stroke. For the cat, it definitely looked like one.
I decided then to stop the dog's Silycure. He never had another stroke.
Of course, he was put on Candilat and steroids for a week. Then, they had me keep him on Candilat indefinitely, for almost two years.
After two years, he could hardly pass water. I took him back to the vet and was told it was cystitis, that his kidneys were fine. At 14 and a half, his kidneys were still doing quite well.
So I gave him the medication. As soon as the treatment was finished, the same thing happened again: he could hardly urinate.
So I gave him the very first medication the vet had suggested over the phone in the middle of the night: Dermipred for two days. Of course, I stopped the Candilat as well.
In fact, when I called him because he couldn't urinate in the middle of the night, the vet told me to give him some Dermipred I already had at home, and then another medication for a week: Meloxydil for seven days.
During those seven days, things improved by the next day. Then, on the eighth day, back to square one.
At that point, I took the bull by the horns and stopped the Candilat because, funnily enough, three hours after giving him the Candilat, his urinary issues would get even worse.
The next morning, I gave him some Dermipred. He felt better. The day after that, as he was still struggling a bit to pass water the evening before, even though it was better, I gave him a second day of Dermipred, just in case, to completely clear the effects of the Candilat.
Then I stopped everything.
And now, he's urinating normally.
So, basically: stopped the Candilat, no more problems. It just took two days of Dermipred to settle what the Candilat seemed to have caused.
And since then, nothing. No problems at all.
For about fifteen years, I haven't had my cats or my dog vaccinated. Over those years, I've had up to six cats and two dogs at the same time. Yet, for fifteen years, none of my animals have been ill or had any problems due to the lack of vaccination.
On the other hand, when I did have them vaccinated, I dealt with cases of fibrosarcoma, with dramatic consequences every time. That's actually one of the reasons I stopped the vaccinations.
So, given that I already wasn't vaccinating them, after this extra experience with vet treatments, you really don't know who to trust anymore.
And I'm not even talking about the spot-on flea treatments and all those potentially dangerous products. It's the same thing: I use very few spot-ons, only in the summer when it seems necessary.
You wonder why we even take them to the vet, frankly. He's 14 and a half and blind, but he's got a bit of his spark back.
