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Cats on Xanax?

no. fortunately, they will not be drinking mutant milk that will disassemble them from the inside out.

Alprazolam and its metabolites could and probably will end up in the mother's breast milk, but the kittens will be fine. trust me, i took xanax once. i was not a kitten, but our CNSs are similar enough.
 
Don't punch 70 year old ladies in the throat. Don't give Xanax to cats. Both acts are highly irresponsible and potentially harmful. Simple as that, really.

Body weight and dosage considerations aside, different species react very differently to drugs. Leave it to vets and other qualified people to dispense drugs to animals. Case in point; a typical human dose of acetaminophen/paracetamol (Tylenol etc.) could easily kill a cat.
 
n.fasciitis said:
question is, would the Xanax mutate or affect the milk that's produced by the cat? I don't want those kittens to die. They're the cutest things ever.
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No, not that particular medicine. The problem with the kittens is it could stop their natural instinct to nurse, or breathe for the matter. Alprazolam is a CNS depressant and can be respiratory depressant with very high doses.

It is not recommended that pregnant women dose with benzodiazepines. It would make sense that the same applies to other species.
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
interesting. is that taking mg/kg into account?
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No, it's not. But unfortunately, most people don't really think that far; they don't go about calculating and splitting tablets into tiny fragments if their cat seems to be in pain. Cats lack the enzymes to process paracetamol (called acetaminophen in the US), and if I remember correctly, doses exceeding 100 mg/kg are considered highly toxic to cats. A single paracetamol tablet can make a cat very ill and two can kill it. :(
 
how much Xanax did you give the cat, OP?

I used to work in a vet hospital..... don't know about Xanax, but the vets administered Valium post surgery all the time. (so the dog/cat wouldn't get wild and hurt themselves)

but the Valium pills that they had in stock were 1mg. So that gives you an idea of how little of a dose they actually need for sedation.....
 
yoboy said:
how much Xanax did you give the cat, OP?

I used to work in a vet hospital..... don't know about Xanax, but the vets administered Valium post surgery all the time. (so the dog/cat wouldn't get wild and hurt themselves)
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It wasn't me who administered the drug, it was my friend's 70 year old mum. If I remember her saying correctly, she said she gave the cat half a Xanax. With that info, my friend takes bars so it was probably around .5 to 1 mg of Xanax. I apologize, my information is faulty, this was a while ago and my memory is shot.
 
OMG...

seriously. who gives a shit.. Cats are pests to the general public, and if one and a few kittens die due to someones stupidity, shit happens - move on.

On the other note though: no, giving cats xanax is a stupid idea, yes the cat just gave birth, it probably wasn't feeling too shit hot.

Xanax isn't likely to kill any creature it's fed to on it's own, as goes with the profile of most benzodiazepine drugs, even in high as fuck dosages. I'm sure peoples animals accidentally eat drugs all the time..

Hell one time my dog licked up maybe a ml or so of 1,4-b, i was fretting hardcore, trying to force the dog to vomit etc.. Either way, the female dog proceeded to try and hump my leg, then came back normal. Was weird.

If i caught my mum trying to give her dogs benzos, i'd be quickly taking them before they got to the animals ;)
 
keep in mind that cats and kittens have very low body weight and something designed to chill out a human could put your pet into a drug-induced coma at the same dose. I'd recommend talking to your vet, not gambling on giving your pet human drugs that could potentially kill it.
 
MrIbis said:
Xanax isn't likely to kill any creature it's fed to on it's own, as goes with the profile of most benzodiazepine drugs, even in high as fuck dosages. I'm sure peoples animals accidentally eat drugs all the time..
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no, no, no. Dogs and cats are not hardcore. They are lightweights!

A not quite "high as fuck" dose of phenobarbital is the preferred method to euthanize dogs/cats. High doses of benzos would most definitely kill a pet. It doesn't take a lot of antifreeze to kill a dog.

Just don't mess with giving your animals meds. Just a bad idea all around.
 
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I read the original post, and several other posts, I'm not even going to bother to read all the pages of posts, but I will say this:
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Are you fucking serious? And what kind of answer were you expecting?
 
kbrad said:
FACT: animals get the Exact same medication we do for many things. no big deal! the vet would have given him benzos himself. the only factor that might have been irresponsible here is did the cat's owner look up the proper dosage to give said cat?
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kbrad, that may be the case for a lot of medications. And indeed, the dose rates for large dogs are often pretty much the same as the dose rates for the average-sized human. But cats and small dogs need very different dosages, even though the active ingredient might be the same. A lot of the medications made up for these sized animals are in smaller concentrations, as well as requiring a smaller dose, so that the eventual amount of the active ingredient could be 10-20 times less than the average person's dose.

This is why it is a problem.

n.fasciitis said:
It wasn't me who administered the drug, it was my friend's 70 year old mum. If I remember her saying correctly, she said she gave the cat half a Xanax. With that info, my friend takes bars so it was probably around .5 to 1 mg of Xanax. I apologize, my information is faulty, this was a while ago and my memory is shot.
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Well, see, there ya go. The correct dose rate of alprazolam for cats is approximately 0.15mg to 0.2mg, depending on the weight of the cat, assuming that most cats are around 11lb (5kg), which works out to be about 0.01mg/lb (0.03mg/kg).

So even if your friend's mum only gave the cat 0.5mg, that is WAY TOO MUCH. Literally 2 to 4 times the correct dosage.

This is precisely why people should NOT give their pets any medications without them being specifically prescribed to that animal.
 
There's a cat and dog OTC medication here called Nervicanis, you can buy it and give it to your pet without going to the vet. It contains sodium bromure, phenobarbital and meprobamate (pro-drug of carisoprodol aka Soma).

Of course the doses are as n3o said much smaller than for humans, as there is for example 10mg of meprobamate in each pill instead of the usual 400mg in each pill for human consumption.
 
^^^not worth abusing, in other words

I bet that the amount of phenobarbital in those things is very very small and I don't even know what sodium bromure is but it sounds nasty.
 
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