MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Tue, 06 May 2008 06:35:59 -0700
It's a joy to read about Snowy's turnaround. What a lucky little soul
she is to have found you Lynne!
But the vet ......he should remember that the little furball on his exam
table is his CLIENT. "Bad" is not a word that should come into his head
never mind come out of his mouth. She was obviously terrified of him and
his set-up. Grrrr.
hugs,
Kerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynne
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:03 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: New Member
Laurie, I totally agree with you about herpes and stress level. I told
you folks about the rescued Persian, Snowy, I adopted. She was a very
sick girl for 2 months and the foster mom got her healthy. Her eyes
were swollen shut and she also had a URI. Since we've had her we have
done everything humanly possible to make her life happy and stress free
and she is absolutely thriving. Her one eye apparently has a bit of
scarring but you would never know this poor little thing ever had a
problem. We have had to delay her spaying because we discovered she had
a toenail that had grown into her pad and needed surgery. She was so
hysterical at the vets that she needed to be sedated. There was fear of
her losing her one pad but she's recovered beautifully and on her return
visit to the vet he was amazed that new skin was growing and after two
weeks now there is a very small black scab left. She also was a perfect
little lady at the return visit unlike the first time when the vet
referred to her as a very bad kitty. Good diet and a stress free life
are so important to these cats. She is now on L-lysine as a supplement
as you suggested. I don't know if she really needs it but it certainly
doesn't hurt. I so hope things continue to go as well as they have for
her. She seems to be the happiest, most playful cat we've ever had.
Lynne
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From: laurieskatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: New Member
Welcome Laura and Laura! L- lysine is great for herpes. You
might want to join the feline herpes group, too. Those kitties can have
eye and mouth problems. Winston (probable herpes) also has unexplained
high fevers and anorexia on rare occasions - it is touch and go at those
time. For herpes, the main thing to to keep their stress level low (for
FeLV, too).
The feline acne group has lots of info on allergies (the fur
loss could be allergies or stress grooming).
Check out www.catinfo.org for food info. This site belongs to a
veterinarian who also does rescue. She likes Wellness and suggests the
grain free diets. The best food I have found for mine is Petguard turkey
and barley lite. All five like it and all seem to be thriving on it. Of
course, it does have grains. I feed it because Frankie had panreatitis
and needed a low fat food.
Good luck and I hope others may have more insight into your
combination of issues....
(ps my Frankie is blind)
Laurie
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From: Belinda Sauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 7:30 PM
Subject: New Member
I'm posting for Laura because she can't subscribe,
list problems, Jim is working on them. You can post on the list to
answer she is going to read the archives for answers! Her message is
below:
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Hi All,
I've tried subscribing to this list but for some reason
the form won't go through. I've sent an e-mail to the list holder. I
figured for now, I'll just read from the archives but would like to
introduce myself to you all :)
My name is Laura, I live in Jersey and currently have 7
wonderful kitties. My newest family member is FeLV+, 2 years old, and
also named Laura, (I'll fill you in on that in a bit) she is blind (very
bad herpes infection as a kitten) has one bad eye and the other was
removed last year.
Her background: About 2 years ago my neighbor and I had
to "clean up" a colony down the street from us of about 50 cats and
kittens, we had them all "fixed", some were TNR'd and the adoptables
were given to a local rescue to find homes. I fostered all the kittens
except 2 which who went straight to my vets office since they had eye
issues, and I knew the rescue I deal with would not take them and try to
place them. The kittens were named Laura and Dave, and tested Neg for
FeLV. About a 3rd of this colony tested Pos, so we knew it was in the
colony...but all the kittens were testing Neg.
I ended up keeping one of the kittens (Rusty) and had
him tested 3 times, because one of the kittens we adopted out later
tested positive when the family vet tested her. Anyway, Laura and
Dave lived at my vets for the past 2 years with several other cats. My
vet took Dave home several months ago and Laura started having problems
with a new cat that was bullying her. I found out about it and offered
to take Laura, since I already have a blind cat and have no problem with
it.
I brought her home and put her in a room with a screen
door, so she could smell my other cats and get to know them without any
issues, plus I work long hours and didn't want her wandering around my
house unsupervised yet. My vet had sent out an IFA test for Laura just
to be sure she was Neg, at my request. Well, it came back positive.
She then did snap tests on cats that were living with Laura and 2 were
also positive (ironically the bully is pos too). She also tested Dave
who is living with her and he was pos.
So, for now I'm keeping Laura in her own room with the
screen door, I also put up a baby gate so that she can't dart out when I
go in and out of the room, that would be disastrous when I'm leaving for
work at 5:30 am....I just don't have time. Aside from the FeLV, Laura
also has herpes, and has lots of bald patches which my vet thinks is
from the stress of living with the bully. I'm not so sure, so I put her
on Wellness instead of the crappy fancy feast she was eating to see if
it might be food related? I don't know, I'm hoping in time, she'll
settle in and her fur will grow back, she is a beautiful tortie.
That's our story, sorry so long! I just wanted to say
hello and ask if you all had any advice, especially when it comes to
food for these kitties....Since I have Laura confined, I can feed her
anything. I'm going to start putting L-lysine in her food for the
herpes but is there anything else I should be giving her? I don't want
to throw too much at her at once, her stools are lovely and I don't want
to mess that up, and also want to see how her coat reacts to these small
changes.
Thanks in advance~!
Laura
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