re: vets. how true. i feel i am lucky that my vet has an open mind and if i tell him about something i have read about, he asks for a copy if it is something he is unaware of. i also put him onto this site and he is now a fan. great to have a vet who admits he doesn't know everything and is willing to learn more. dorlis ---- "Rosenfeldt wrote: > Stef -- > > Sorry you're having all this trouble and worry right now. > > About FIV, you are right and your vet is wrong. It is VERY hard to transmit > other than through fighting (deep bites) and sex. It's much less > "contagious" than FeLV, and even FeLV appears to be not as contagious as > originally thought. I'm on a feral cat list where there has been some > discussion of FeLV, and people have said they've seen cat colonies where they > know that some cats are FeLV+, and if it's as transmissible as we're supposed > to believe, the whole colonies should have gotten sick and died, and they > just haven't. The trouble is that for some reason some vets don't keep up > with new research as much as they should, and keep giving wrong information, > and more importantly, don't know the right things to do to keep the cats as > healthy as possible or to treat them properly when they do get sick. > > Your cats are very cute! > > Diane R. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org > [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Stefania > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:34 PM > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] PCR test reliability > > > Hi Chris, > thank-you very much for sharing your story. The problem here is that in these > days I read very much on FeLV and FIV and I agree with you. My cats have > always been together (except for Trudi, who is a lone wolf), they play, groom > each other and they eat together even if they have one bowl each :-) > They go out and I live in the country, so there are surely many stray cats > and many owners who don't bother to test their cats! > > What am I supposed to do? I don't want to keep them inside because it's like > a prison for them. > > On friday I will test the last two of them and I strongly hope they're > negative, so I will continue to vaccine them and hope. > > My vet scared me a lot saying that FIV is very transmissible and the virus is > strong and cats can catch it by grooming each other. Since I knew that it's > not so, I tried to ask once again to this vet, but she keeps on saying that > FIV spreads very well. I'm really surprised to hear so... > > I so decided to take Trudi to another vet and she immediately recognized > stomatitis in her mouth (which the first one denied) and nose. She simply > gave me a gel for her mouth. About the dermatitis: it can be for amoxicillin > but we don't know. We decided to use, first, something against fleas and then > wait and see. If the situation does not change, we will try with a local gel. > > Has anyone had experience with dermatitis? > For Trudi it's the first time, and that's why I think it was the amoxicillin. > > If you want to see picture of my 4 babies, I have a blog. It's written in > "cattish" so you cannot understand, but you can see pictures. > It's www.trumiro.com > > Hi all! > Stef > > > Passa a Yahoo! Mail. > > La webmail che ti offre GRATIS spazio illimitato, > antispam e messenger integrato. > http://it.mail.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > This electronic mail transmission and any attachments are confidential and > may be privileged. > They should be read or retained only by the intended recipient. If you have > received this > transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the > transmission from > your system. In addition, in order to comply with Treasury Circular 230, we > are required to > inform you that unless we have specifically stated to the contrary in > writing, any advice we > provide in this email or any attachment concerning federal tax issues or > submissions is not > intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, to avoid federal tax > penalties. > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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