My cat is aggressive during fluid therapy for kidney failure. Help!

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My cat recently was diagnosed with kidney failure. We recently started administering fluids. After 2 weeks, my cat has started yoweling, biting, screeching, hissing, and jumping away. It has become impossible to give her the fluids. I tried to put her in a towel and that did not go well and it was hard to grab skin. I tried to go back to her scruff and she cried like she was in pain once the fluid started to flow. I don’t know what to do. Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | 14 years and 7 months old | 5.4 lbs

Destini R. Holloway, DVM · Accepted Answer

Poor girl. There is a natural anti-anxiety medication that you can try first before resorting to stronger anxiety medication from your vet. The product is called Zylkene and is available on Amazon.com. Ask your vet if this is appropriate for your pet Sabre to try to reduce her anxiety so that she can continue receiving her much needed treatment for kidney failure. I would also encourage you , if you have not done so already, to keep her on her kidney prescription diet, which is the mainstay treatment for pets with kidney failure. Best of luck with your pet Sabre and I hope that she can relax soon and take her treatments with less anxiety. Take care!

My cat is aggressive during fluid therapy for kidney failure. Help!

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