Re: RE: [FivCats] domino -still searching for help

[catatonya]

Poor Domino.  I'll just keep my mouth shut.

 

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Warning: Much sarcasm to follow...

What a fabulous world this would be if we could all be so lucky to place
every FeLV/FIV cat in our idea of a perfect home...and she wonders why
she hasn't gotten a single response? Did she assume people would be
breaking down her door for Domino? Yikes...somebody *please* stop me
from sending this woman a *very* unpleasant email...there are so many
things wrong with her email not the least of which are her
misconceptions about dry food, and that's just to start, don't even get
me started on the immuno-compromised and FeLV/FIV...grrrrrrrrr...sorry,
I'm still reeling after seeing the photos out of AW...I hope someone
comes forward for *Domino's* sake...apparently, this woman cares enough
to want to place her in that oh-so-abundant *ideal* home, but doesn't
care *enough* to keep her...sorry, all...just needed to vent...


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----- Original Message -----
From: Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2005 3:03 pm
Subject: RE: [FivCats] domino -still searching for help

> Hi, I am cross posting for her, please respond to her directly off
> lineif you can help Domino-
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> Thank you.
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> Hideyo
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> BehalfOf Terri Weiss
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [FivCats] domino -still searching for help
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> Hello: I posyed this message last month but I haven't received a
> singleresponse. I would greatly appreciate a response. Thanks -
> Terri (The
> June e-mail is pasted below)
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> I just posted this message on the other fiv-cat yahoo site, so I'm
> re-posting it here to increase Domino's chances for a safe and happy
> placement:
>
> 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 various postings re: what dangers are
> posed to
> people with Lupus, HIV+ etc., when they have FIV+ cats. The bottom
> lineis that for those of us who are immune-compromised, there are no
> definitive answers about our risks with FIV+ cats. Clearly there is a
> risk of spreading bacteria between people and cats; cat scratch
> diseaseis also 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 on the FIVCAT board 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 have
> 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
> their teeth 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 elsewhere, and that she keeps
> mountains of amoxicillin around. She also has two small dogs 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
> rescue 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.
>
> Please feel free to check the other yahoo board to get a better
> sense of
> where I'm coming from. I don't want to repeat myself here, but my
> angstover all this will be self evident if you do a search there
> for "Domino"
> or "MS".
>
> Gratefuly and unhappily yours, Terri
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