Girl saaaammmeeeed we all need to be friends. She's so funny and gives amazing information!!

I plan to make more videos later this year!

There will be more sometime this year! I've neglected this channel for a while, but I definitely have some more lectures planned for the future!

This presentation was created specifically for a non-profit high volume 501c3 non-profit veterinary clinic in New Orleans. Many of the clients that go to this hospital cannot afford the cost of Onsior, so we administer an injection of meloxicam post op for the high volume spay and neuter feline patients. It's used short term and off label. The feline meloxicam protocol is utilized in veterinary schools, university shelter medicine protocols, and Humane Alliance. As long as meloxicam is dosed appropriately and used short term in healthy cats, there is no increased risk of renal damage in feline patients. It's the *repeated* use of meloxicam in cats that cause renal damage.

The pt would only aspirated if it went into the trachea and lungs, but not the esophagus. Regardless of the animal or human.

If you just squirt a syringe of water quickly in the mouth, YES it could cause the cat to aspirate. Instead, place the syringe in the corner of the mouth and slowly push down the plunger. Giving it slowly allows the cat to realize water is in their mouth and they will swallow it. If you push it too fast they could potentially inhale without realizing water is in their mouth.

Hahaha! May I ask which veterinary technology program you attend? I'm cracking up that instructors are linking ya'll to my videos because I say "fuck" all up in here!

Thick leather gloves work well. Inject anesthetics IM and put them in a kennel to let it work for a few minutes. Then they should be drowsy enough to handle. Mask them until they are deep enough to intubate without resistance.

Sorry it's taken me a year to reply back! There's a BUNCH of ways to get an intramuscular injection into fractious cats! The easiest is if they are in a soft carrier; you can just roll up the carrier and get them to the front where the mesh zippered door is and give 'em an injection right through it. The second way is if the cat is in a trap or a wire crate, you can get this tool (I can't remember the name if it, but I'll look it up - I just call it the pitchfork) that has a bunch of metal rods attached to it that can slide into the trap or wire crate so you can kind of block the cat off into a corner and give an injection through the bars of the enclosure. If the cat is in a traditional hard top carrier, I put them in a room with no light on and I place a squeeze kennel (it's a small kennel that has a moving side wall) in front of their carrier. I cover the squeeze with a thick blanket, so it's pitch black in there. I place an open can of A/D up against the outside back wall of the squeeze (not in the squeeze - I don't want the cat to eat right before I sedate him, I just want him to THINK there's food in there.) I open the door to the squeeze and I open the door to the cat's carrier (with the openings up against each other so the two open carriers basically have created one enclosed carrier.) It can take upwards of 5 minutes, but the cat gets enticed by both the smell of the food and the pitch-black darkness of the squeeze kennel. They usually walk right in the squeeze and I shut the door of it behind them. Once in the squeeze, I can just pull the handles of the wall so the cat is right up against the side of the cage, then I inject him and release the wall. In rare occasions, a cat is too afraid to leave their carrier and go into the squeeze, so I will either gently poke them with a chopstick through their carrier which makes them immediately run into the squeeze and if that don't work I do a little puff of compressed air in a can (like for cleaning computers) and then run into the squeeze. There's also a whole technique to actually remove a cat with a towel from a hard top carrier, but that is waaaay too difficult to put into words. I'm gonna have to do a video on how to inject fractious cats. Feral cats are my favorite!

Whoops! I didn't even realize I had a typo! Thank you!

Buprenorphine is not Suboxone and it does not contain Naloxone. Buprenorphine alone is Subutex. Suboxone is Buprenorphine combined with Naloxone.

@@bigtittygoblin that’s what I said G

vet professionals have dirty mouths

Get used to the profanity if you’re going into the medical field :-)