I'm so glad to see this thread because I've been searching for days on any information about giving resveratrol to pets. My 16-year old cat Bootsie has been diagnosed with malignant salivary gland cancer and the vet did not recommend surgery and chemotherapy. She did, however, prescribe prednisone to reduce the tumor's inflammation.
The vet offers little hope for sweet Bootsie, who also has hyperthyroidism, which has been treated for years with methimasol.
I decided to start giving Bootsie resveratrol after the vet said she didn't think it would do any harm. The problem is how to administer it. She won't take a capsule and it's too big anyway so at first I mixed some Country Life Resveratrol that I purchased at Whole Foods into her methimasol.
The problem with this method is there are still small particles of knotweed in the mixture and they clog the catridge that I use to give her medicine orally. Also, she fights this medicine with tooth and claw, literally.
Right after I started giving Boots resveratrol (and I have no idea just how much she's actually absorbing -- she tends to keep a lot in her mouth which comes out as really messy saliva strings after I dose her), she perked up, started eating a lot and was jumping around like a kitten. I'm not sure the resveratrol is responsible for Boots' temporary revival because I also started her on the prednisone at the same time.
Now, however, about ten days on the resveratrol/prednisone, she sleeps all day long and tends to hide herself under furniture. She looks good, has gained a lot of weight (she needed to gain weight), eats a lot and gets a spurt of energy if she smells a turkey sandwich. Her coat is glossy.
I think the tumor, which is very palpable, has shrunk a little bit, although it's hard to tell and again the prednisone is probably responsible for that.
I started to step up her dosage yesterday by giving her 300 mg of a mixture of water and Country Life reservatrol once per day, and I also have it mixed in with her methimasol. Again, I don't know how much she's actually getting.
I ordered Lonquercetex and it arrived in the mail today. It may be a superior alternative to the Country Life supplement so I'm going to mix two caplets in water and give her this mixture tonight.
She has shown no ill side effects from the Resveratrol -- her digestion and urination seem to be normal.
If anyone has any advice at all on how I can give Bootsie her dose (forget mixing it in with her food -- her salivary gland tumor makes eating anything aside from Gerber's baby food difficult and she's a picky cat anyway when it comes to food) or just how much I should give her, please let me know.
Edited by maxwatt, 14 July 2009 - 10:13 PM.