Denice,
Thanks for your response...you said basically what I feared. I know about the paradoxical reaction in humans, and in other animals...I just wasn't expecting it in this cat. I chose his normal sleep time on purpose, and made sure he'd eaten an hour or so beforehand and had plenty of...
My 14-year-old cat has a huge mat over about a third of his back...I've spent the last two months getting as much of it cut away as I can. He got in something sticky, and bathing him made it worse. Water makes the mat tighter.
Tonight in desperation I gave him a 5mg valium, hoping it would...