FW: [FivCats] I need placement help for Domino

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:11:58 -0700

Also, one more to cross-posting – thanks.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Erised Freyre
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [FivCats] I need placement help for Domino

 

Terri,

 

I am also trying to place an FIV+ cat. He is a stray I found about four months ago. When I found out he was FIV+, I decided I could not rerelease him to the neighborhood (where I have seen him running around for years) even after I had him neutered. A rescue organization called Kitties from Heaven (http://www.kittiesfromheaven.com/) has agreed to take him. They are based in Iowa. They tell me that Oakley (my stray) will be the only FIV+ cat at their sanctuary right now, although they have owned another FIV+ before. They house their special needs (FIV+, FeLV+, diabetic) cats (they only have four special needs cats right now) in a building on their property that they say is set up like a home environment. There is a separate room for each of the ailments. It is run by a couple (Katie and Curt). Katie works only part time and they say she is home all day taking care of the cats. I have been asking them a lot of questions, they have been very happy to answer. I'd rather place Oakley in a home too, but I haven't had any luck. I still haven't made peace with the decision to send Oakley to Kitties from Heaven, but it is looking like I am going to have to. Maybe you can contact them too and give me your impression. You can Email me separately if you'd like, maybe we can discuss this further.

 

Erised

 


Diane Grivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

i agree, the place you described doesn't sound good for domino. i question whether its good for any of those cats that are kept in cages.  that's no life.

 

post domino on petfinder.com as needing a new home as well as hang flyers explaining your situation in every vet clinic in your area. you may come across someone who feels for your situation.  i work at a no kill shelter in nj, www.rbari.org.  we do take fiv+ cats and keep them until we place them. i could ask if domino could come to us. i know you didn't want a rescue for him, but it could be a last alternative.  he would live in a room with two other fiv+ cats and have company from two workers who sit in that room all day during the week. volunteers would spend time with him at night and on the weekend.  it takes us awhile to place fiv+ cats in homes, but we eventually do find them homes...if they are people friendly. scared, skittish cats with fiv are much harder to place.  let me know if you want to consider this route and i will ask the supervisor if she will consider domino.

Myrtle Pfister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yes I do remember you and gee what a situation to have the placement turn out to be....You made the right decision not to place Domino there.I  do not have any answers, but I hope someone does.....as to where you could place Domino, if I lived in New York I would want to take Domino, but I am so far and it would not work here.....I will keep my ears open though if I can come up with someone for you.....take care...Myrtle




>From: "siberskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [FivCats] I need placement help for Domino
>Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:32:03 -0000
>
>Some of you may remember me from last month.  I have MS and now
>Domino has had 2 Western blots (the 2d was just done at Cornell),
>both with FIV+ results.   Domino has been a strictly indoor cat, has
>a dog companion (our Golden), my kids and us. She only eats Nutro dry
>food, which is probably why her teeth and gums are in such good
>shape.
>
>I have read with interest the various postings here re: people with
>Lupus, HIV+ etc., who have FIV+ cats.  The bottom line is that for
>those of us who are immune-compromised, there are no definitive
>answers about our risks with FIV+ cats.  Joel posted here a little
>while ago about the spread of bacteria between people and cats;
>others have written about cat scratch disease being transmitted to
>humans.  Unless you are immune compromsed, no one really can tell the
>those of us who are, whether it's worth the risk to keep an FIV+ cat
>around or not, or whether there's a risk at all.  It's a complete
>gamble.
>
>I previously posted that I am not willing to take the gamble, not
>with my health.  Too many doctors have been wrong about my disease,
>its progression, the drugs I've taken for MS & their side effects; I
>can't take the word of fellow kitty-lovers about FIV+ if my own human
>docs, the two vets I've seen & the Cornell Feline Health Clinic have
>question marks about this. So yes, I decided that I needed to place
>Domino elsewhere for both our sakes.
>
>I contacted the rescue group where we got Domino.  They connected me
>to a lady nearby, in Westchester County, NY where I live.  She has 17
>FIV+ cats.  Eight are upstairs with a dominant female, 9 are
>downstairs in runs or cages because they either spray or are too
>timid to use their litter boxes (at least acc to the lady).  She
>feeds them all a little wet food to keep them "hydrated" (what
>happened to water?), which we all know increases tarter and plaque,
>as well as dry food.  She has told me that many of her cats have had
>theirteeth pulled, and that some are completely toothless. She also
>told me that she has litter boxes all over the house, that some cats
>sleep on her bed, on pillows or selsewhere, and that she keeps
>mountans of amoxicillin around.  She also has two small gogs plus a
>German Shepherd.  She became angry when I asked if I could inspect
>the premises, telling me that I was being insulting to her, and she
>said that the only thing I could see or do at her house (which I
>can't, since her house isn't accessible) would be to put Domino in
>what she described as a large dog-sized cage in the kitchen to say
>goodbye.  Then Domino would remain in the cage for a full month while
>the other cats got used to her and vice versa.
>
>Apart from my discompfort with all the above, it seems only logical
>to me that with so many FIV+ cats around, the chances of spreading
>illness, viruses and bacteria increases exponentially, thereby
>increasing the rish to all the cats. Needless to say, I am not
>inclined to place Domino with this lady.
>
>But I need to place Domino somewhere - not in a foster home, not with
>a resue group or a shelter, but in a permanent home where she will be
>safe and happy without zillions of other cats around who might scare,
>intimidate or weaken her.  I have reactivated my yahoo email, because
>I know that some of you were trying to get back to me last month but
>my yahoo e-mail got loused up somehow and the e-mails bounced.  I
>would be most grateful if anyone here would be willing to take in
>Domino, age 1 1/2, black tuxedo cat with greenish eyes, asymptomatic
>now, companionable but not an "in your face" cat, loves water,
>especially out of people glasses with ice! and likes her ears
>rubbed.  If anyone is relatively close to us, and would allow my
>daughters to call for the first few months or whatever to check on
>how Domino's doing, since they're heart-broken too, maybe even more
>than me, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
>
>Gratefuly and unhappily yours, Terri
>
>

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