life span and losses

[Lomaxturtle]

I'm so sorry to hear of those of you who have lost you beloved furkids. It is so painful and I still miss my dear girl now even though it is 2 months since her death. I think I ended up coping by writing her a poem and drawing her aswell as being around other animals and taking my 3 new cats. Bramble is not a well cat I'm afraid and we are getting him on Feline Omega Interferon tomorrow - certainly think it's calcivirus. And although Bramble is FIV+ he could also have FeLV as he lives with an FeLV+ cat - I'm not testing him though as he is reaching close to the end with the FIV I think. He will be tested for Calicivirus too tomorrow. My FeLV+ cat is just so mischeivious and looks so healthy although she too will be taking a trip to the vet as she has a little bit of a runny nose but is coping well - she keeps jumping on and off the wardrobe and diving in and out of her playing tunnel chasing her buddy - Bramble just lets them get on with it. I think it was all triggered by the stress of them changing homes when they came out of the animal sanctuary 3 weeks ago into their new home.   I will try what I can for Bramble but if he has no improvement I think it will be kinder for him to be sent up to play with my Tidge at rainbow bridge until I get there.   I also hadn't realised that the FeLV+ cat life span was commonly so short so thanks for discussing that as it will be useful to me cope with that when that time arrives - so difficult when they have to pass over but helping them and knowing they are well loved is well worth the heartache.   Michelle L