I have 2 pos FELV & 3 negs… The
negs were all exposed to one of the pos for years before I knew she had it—they
have tested neg but I do give them FELV shots once a year (they have to be
retested each time before vet will give them shot)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Barbara Baass
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005
12:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: life span and losses
I was
wondering if Bramble has ever had a felv shot? I worry about my other 4
non-positive ones getting Felv from Tom, especially the younger one that was 6
years old in May, Tasha. I had her since she was a baby at 6 weeks and she
will always be my baby cat no matter how old she gets. She was the one that was
shot with a pellet gun when I found her in my garage.
Barbara Baass
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wrote:
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.
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