Re: Off topic, but I have a food question

2005-12-01 Thread Dudes
Ah...so maybe the cats know what they are talking about by not eating itPerhaps I will go to the website and ask.  At any rate, still no takers today.  S>As far as arguments against EVO.  I read that the rosemary in it, >(I'm pretty sure that's what it was), is not suppose to be good >f

Re: Saying Goodbye

2005-12-01 Thread Sherry DeHaan
Allie bless you,and my thoughts are with you in this hard time,she will always be a part of you. sherryAllie Deaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks everyone for all of your support. I wish, wish, wish that this could have been treated and that we could have spent more time together, but she was

Re: Off topic, but I have a food question

2005-12-01 Thread felv
My sensitive guy pukes his guts up if I feed anything made by Nutro. That was the first premium brand I tried on them, never seen so much puke everywhere in my life. Nutro is good, just not for sensitive cats, it's too rich. Jennhttp://ucat.ushttp://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.htmlAdopt a cat fr

Sammy and interferon

2005-12-01 Thread Helene Hand
Hi!1  I seem to mostly lurk, too, now that Sam seems so well, but I have a concern to share with all of you.  I do love this list, and there was a time all of you definitely saved Sammy's life with your love and advice. Thank you for everything you have done for us.   Okay- Sammy, my 15

Sammy and interferon

2005-12-01 Thread Helene Hand
Hi!1  I seem to mostly lurk, too, now that Sam seems so well, but I have a concern to share with all of you.  I do love this list, and there was a time all of you definitely saved Sammy's life with your love and advice. Thank you for everything you have done for us.   Okay- Sammy, my 15

Re: Pictures of my Kitties

2005-12-01 Thread Steph E Caldwell
wendy wrote: Love the pic of TeeCee licking his chops. That is hilarious! He looks like such a ham! They are all three beautiful! I wish I had all those trees where I live! I love trees! Thanks Wendy! He's a sweet kitty :) Steph

Introduction

2005-12-01 Thread Marissa
Hello!    I am so happy to have found this mailing list.  My name is Marissa and I wanted to introduce my little guy, Jake.  I adopted Jake only a couple months ago from a rescue group that I had been fostering for.  I was moving to a new city and decided I wanted to take a cat with me, and since

Re: Sigh...

2005-12-01 Thread catatonya
I don't know.  I've rescued lots and lots of cats over the years, plus worked at the shelter, and pilled hundreds and hundreds.  BUT,  I have one cat, Popeye, that I've discussed on here before, that I absolutely cannot pill.   He is in my face all the time.  I can't sit down without him laying o

Re: euthanizing kitties for bathroom habits

2005-12-01 Thread catatonya
Wendy,   I just had a thought reading your message. lol.  Why don't YOU just pee all over their dining room carpet next time you're there.  Then maybe you won't have to go over there again!  Really!  I'm sure their daughter has had accidents before.  If not, she will sometime.  And when they get

Re: Saying Goodbye

2005-12-01 Thread catatonya
Allie,   I'm so sorry.  You've done everything you could for Lola.  I think it's a great idea to go ahead and take in the foster.  It will probably make you feel better and keep you busy.  take care, tonya.Allie Deaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I took Lola in to get re-evaluated, regarles

Re: Saying Goodbye

2005-12-01 Thread Allie Deaver
Thanks everyone for all of your support. I wish, wish, wish that this could have been treated and that we could have spent more time together, but she was just a tiny kitten, and not very (physically) strong, though she was a fighter. She gave this her best shot, with all the tests and care we gave

Gel caps

2005-12-01 Thread Lynne Moquin
We found gel caps invaluable for chinese herbs, which are usually really bitter. At first i got the number 4 ones, hardly anything fits, it took 4 to fill 1/4 t. I never used the pill filler kit, rather put loose stuff in a shallow dish and pushed the dry herb into it, kept pushing and packing it i

Re: OT list created. Join HERE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/felvot/

2005-12-01 Thread TatorBunz
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Re: Arthur

2005-12-01 Thread Terri Brown
How horribly sad!   Goodnight, sweet Arthur...   =^..^= Terri, Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, Travis, and 6 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth, Alec & Salome' =^..^=   Furkid Photos! http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7sgqa/My Personal Page: http://www.geocities.com

Re: OT list created. Join HERE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/felvot/

2005-12-01 Thread Terri Brown
Jenn,   My Yahoo ID is [EMAIL PROTECTED]   =^..^= Terri, Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, Travis, and 6 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth, Alec & Salome' =^..^=   Furkid Photos! http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7sgqa/My Personal Page: http://www.geocities.com/ruthiegir

Re: Off topic, but I have a food question

2005-12-01 Thread Terri Brown
Yes!  My gang doesn't like the Inova foods.  They like Eagle Pack and Nutro only.  So they get Nutro Natural Choice Indoor formula dry and Nutro canned.   =^..^= Terri, Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, Travis, and 6 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth, Alec & Salome'

Re: My dear Garfunkle's new departure

2005-12-01 Thread wendy
Ditto to what Nina said. Nicely put Mary Christine! __ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

RE: reunion with Garfunkle

2005-12-01 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Dear Wendy, I can so guarantee that Cricket's strong soul is right besides you, too! Jasmine also shared her experience regarding her recent lost kitty who died of cancer.. she saw her in her room and all of sudden, she said, that her emptiness of feeling from losing her went away, and she was fil

RE: reunion with Garfunkle

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message Hideyo, I'm so glad and happy for you that you're feeling at peace in regard to sweet Garfunkle. much love and big hugs, Kerry -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hideyo YamamotoSent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:30 PMTo

RE: My dear Garfunkle's new departure for Nina & MC

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
>Jenn's idea for an OT group seems to be wasted on us! :)< Hey, but you 2 guys are already in Jenn's group:>) I'm so excited about the o/t group. I've used it a couple of times already. Kerry IRS CIRCULAR 230 NOTICE. Any advice expressed above as to tax matters was neither written

Re: My dear Garfunkle's new departure

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
Very nicely put MC. It's so very difficult to remember the big picture is not all within our focus, esp when we're hurting. Ah for the days when ignorance was Queen and I felt justified in my tantrums against the seeming injustice of it all! I still have tantrums, but now I get mad that we e

Re: My dear Garfunkle's new departure

2005-12-01 Thread TenHouseCats
not guilty, wendy--you were doing what needed to be done at the moment if we truly believe that things happen just as they are supposed to, then how could whatever we do be wrong? hindsight is, really, useless--because no matter how much we may want to, we CANNOT go back hindsight can be a

Re: reunion with Garfunkle

2005-12-01 Thread wendy
Hideyo, Thank you so much for sharing your communication with Garfunkle with us. It makes me feel better and I am going to go home tonight and talk to Cricket out loud while my husband and nephew wonder if I am crazy. But I don't care. I just want to connect with Cricket again. I am starting

Re: reunion with Garfunkle

2005-12-01 Thread TenHouseCats
wonderful, hideyo--i think that we all HOPE this is what our critters could/would tell us. (i also think that this is exactly the reassurance we would get if we were able to hear from them directly--i know i'll try to remember, next time that one moves on, that they really ARE fine, that they know

RE: Test protocol question

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Lynne, first, I'm so sorry for the loss of your kitty. That's so hard. If it were me I would test the others once again, to be on the safe side. It can't harm. And the advice usually is, test twice, just in case it was too early for the latent virus to be picked up by the first test (that happened

RE: Arthur

2005-12-01 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Sherry, I am so sorry to hear about Arthur... I just lost my baby Garfunkle to liver disease as well... please know that Arthur is now free of pain and he is probably feeling great now. I am so glad that you had an opportunity meet with him. Love and hugs to Arthur and to you, Hideyo -Origi

RE: Test protocol question

2005-12-01 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
My feeling that they are ok.. I think it's true for lots of virus related feline disease,, it's not so much about the virus itself, but more about their immune system. So, if their immune system is good, no matter what, they might not be infected even if they are exposed. But I guess if I were in

reunion with Garfunkle

2005-12-01 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Hi, everyone.  I talked to my baby, Garfunkle via Jasmine who is  my AC last night. After Jasmine connected with Garfunkle, and before I started asking questions, she just started expressing how surprised she was as to how much Garfunkle loves and misses me – she said, oh my gosh, Hideyo,

Re: Test protocol question

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
When I read your post again, I misunderstood you. I thought you had three pos that died. Let me see if I have this straight, you had 3 cats, one of which was positive. They all lived together for how long? One month? What was that about being in very close contact since they were 14.5 week

RE: My dear Garfunkle's new departure

2005-12-01 Thread wendy
I'm with you Tonya. I feel that everything happens for a reason. You see the first domino fall, and feel the pain from that, but you don't see the whole domino effect. Since Cricket has been gone, my relationships with the two that I had before he came along have gotten closer. I was probably g

Re: Test protocol question

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
Lynne, At 2.5 yrs and after living with the positives for such a long time, my bet is that another test will turn up negative as well. I'm not sure what the exact gestation period is for felv, I'm not sure anyone knows, please members, if you know... Anyway, it wouldn't hurt to have them ret

Re: meds

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
Or would there be too much liquid to fit? Or, would the liquid make the gel cap soften and break to quickly before you can pill a kitty? > Yes. They wouldn't actually break, but when you get the gel caps wet, they melt. You can buy empty gel caps at the health food store, (for the dry meds),

Re: meds

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
All and all, it sounds very encouraging! I'm so glad that Brooklyn is feeling better! Good for you with getting your nerve up to administer those meds. I know you just bought the script for the liquid stuff, but like I said before, I hate forcing anything vile down their throats if I can help i

Re: meds

2005-12-01 Thread wendy
Someone in here said that they make their own pills using empty gel caps, which I think is a fantastic idea. This might be a dumb question, but depending on how fast you can make the gel cap, can you use the liquid in those? Or would there be too much liquid to fit? Or, would the liquid make the

Re: Arthur

2005-12-01 Thread wendy
Sherry, I'm sorry to hear about Arthur. What a gift to him that you were there to pay special attention to him before he passed. And a blessing to you to. :) Wendy __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://mu

RE: Off topic, but I have a food question

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message Hmm, that doesn't ring a bell, it was some more general argument I heard. Anyway, that gives me 2 reasons to wait and see now. Can't tell you how much expensive wet food I've thrown away. And I've never seen stray cats--only rats--in my neighborhood, so no one to give it to wh

Test protocol question

2005-12-01 Thread Lynne Moquin
Advice appreciated for when or if we need to test our two cats again : Our third cat died of FeLV cancer on Nov.2nd. The three cats all had fairly close associated during the last month as in, being in same room and some physical contact. The other two cats had blood drawn on Nov.5 and both Elisa

Re: meds

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
All and all, it sounds very encouraging! I'm so glad that Brooklyn is feeling better! Good for you with getting your nerve up to administer those meds. I know you just bought the script for the liquid stuff, but like I said before, I hate forcing anything vile down their throats if I can hel

Re: Off topic, but I have a food question

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
I've been trying to switch my brood over to better quality canned for a while too.  They just don't like it.  My Ursula refuses anything but dry, the only "wet" food she'll eat is people tuna, sometimes I can get her to eat turkey, or chicken, but that's it.  Everyone says to mix in minute amou

Re: Arthur

2005-12-01 Thread Nina
You know Sherry, what MC says is so true. They do stay with us forever. When someone like Arthur touches our hearts it doesn't matter that it was only for an instant in time. I remember when my Ursala went missing. One of the many things I did to search for her was, of course, to visit the

RE: meds

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Wonderful news Rebecca! S inspiring to all of us!! hugs to you and Brooklyn Kerry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of veggiepugs Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:50 AM To: Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: meds Hi Everyoneju

Re: meds

2005-12-01 Thread TenHouseCats
hee hee--isn't it AMAZING how quickly we get trained? i think about all the medicating and procedures i can do now that i would NEVER have thought i could ever do trust me--everything you're learning with brooklyn will help other cats down the road: your own, those of your friends (who'll say,

RE: Saying Goodbye

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message I'm so sorry to hear about Lola, Allie. I'm glad, though, that she was lucky enough to find you. I agree, what better tribute to the sweet soul than to save the life of another. I think it's wonderful that you're able to transcend your grief and remember all the other needy

Re: meds

2005-12-01 Thread Lernermichelle
Rebecca,    With liquid meds, I find it helps to prevent them from spitting them out if you squirt it in smaller amounts, like 1/2 cc at a time or even less right into the back of their mouths.  I find that with larger squirts (like 1 cc at a time) they often hold it in their mouths and spit

meds

2005-12-01 Thread veggiepugs
Hi Everyonejust an update and a question. First question...how much does that Roomba cost? That sounds AWESOME! With a kitty, two rabbits, one who LOVES to kick her litter all over the place and 2 dogs that shed enough to make another dog, that would be AWESOME! Secondly, not a question but

RE: test

2005-12-01 Thread Helene Hand
Thanks, Wendy!! Helene -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wendy Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:42 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: test i see you helen --- Helene Hand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seeing if I am still

RE: OT list created. Join HERE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/felvot/

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message Wow---that's fabulous Jenn-- thanks so much for doing this!!! Kerry -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:24 PMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: OT list created. J

RE: Arthur

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message I'm glad too that Arthur didn't leave this world without knowing he was loved. So good that you were able to spend time with the precious little soul, Sherry. Thanks for caring---there ain't enough of it in this world, Kerry -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

RE: Off topic, but I have a food question

2005-12-01 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message I'll be interested to hear helpful responses to your Q, Sandyunlike mine, for I'm just replying in sympathy! I have similar problems with *wet* food---neither my positives or negatives are particulary thrilled by any of the flavors of the (high-quality) Wellness wet food I

Re: Arthur

2005-12-01 Thread TenHouseCats
GLOW to guide arthur's way home... i'm glad you got to know him, if only for a short while, and to share love with him. he will be with you forever. MC On 12/1/05, Sherry DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sad to say that Arthur the kitty at Sids house the santuary I volunteer > at had t

Arthur

2005-12-01 Thread Sherry DeHaan
I am sad to say that Arthur the kitty at Sids house the santuary I volunteer at had to be sent over the bridge yesterday due to liver failure.I only met him the night before he passed but I am so glad that I got to meet him,he was a sweetie and I got to give him some loving. Sherry Yahoo! Music