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My cat is acting strange after getting human Valium. Is it an overdose?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Turkish Angora | Male

My cat is being very vocal and crying for a few hrs now. It won't drink water and it's nose is dry. I'm moving from the family home the only home he's known. And his being very aggressive hissing crying I don't know what to do. Then my sister went and gave it 1/2 tablet of human valium and he's very unsettled and his eyes are very big

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Answered By Dr. Strydom, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on December 9th, 2019

How many milligrams of valium did she give? How much does Licorice weigh? Giving him that was not a good idea. It sounds like he has paradoxical hyper excitement from an overdose. We need more information to be helpful so please post again . Thank you.

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