By this afternoon I was very concerned about Stumpie. His gums were pink again, but nothing in the world could persuade him to get up and do something. Not food, not toys, not me annoying the cr#p out of him. He was also runnig a slight fever, so back to the vet we went. Turned out the man was very happy to see us – he wants to try a new treatment on Stump. It involves treatment with a zapper – the basic premise of the treatment is that if you expose any organism to a frequency higher than its own for a prolonged period of time, the organism will die; so in theory it should kill virusses and bacteria ect.
The vet has so far only tried this on dogs – he had 20 puppies coming in from a breeder, all with parvo. He treated all of them with this zapper, twice a day, for 8 mins, in conjunction with the regular parvo treatment he uses. 19 out of the 20 puppies survived. He said he has never seen anything like this – normally he loses 19 puppies and maybe saves one.
So Stump is officially now the first cat in SA to get zapped. He had his first treatment this afternoon – he fell asleep sitting with the copper probes under his front legs, and he was very quiet on the way home. When we got him home, he demanded to have his dinner, and right now he is chasing flying ants in the garden and climbing trees (our garden is lit up at night, so I can see everything he does). He has to go for a session every day for the next week, and then we’ll discuss what to do next. I know not to get my hopes up, this is venturing into the murkier side of alternative treatments – but maybe?? Just maybe???