Re: Please add Butternut to the CLS

[Terri Brown]

So many losses -- hugs to you.   Goodnight, sweet Butternut.......   =^..^= Terri, Salome', Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, and 5 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth and Alec =^..^=   Furkid Photos! http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7sgqa/ My FeLV Site: http://pages.ivillage.com/ruthiegirl1/MyFeLVinformationSite/ My Personal Page: http://www.geocities.com/ruthiegirl1/terrispage.html?1083970447350 ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Loesch To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:28 PM Subject: Please add Butternut to the CLS Yesterday I lost Butternut to this evil disease.  He was 3 1/2 years old - so I know he has lived longer than most babies born positive - but is wasn't long enough.  It never is, is it.  I am in Arkansas and over 3 years ago there was a situation in the northern part of the state - out in the sticks somewhere - where lots of cats were left at a trailer park of some sort.  It was in the news that a vet had been hired to euthanize them all. 2 members of our rescue group headed up there to see what could be done -- all they managed to save was one little orange tabby boy, Butternut, who tested positive for feleuk.  Since I already had feleuk babies, including Gloria's Mittens and my Leader and their littermates, who were the same age as Butternut, I took him.  He has been wonderfully healthy and happy and very much loved for the whole of his short life.   Over the last couple of days he went downhill fast and yesterday lost the use of his hind legs.  We chose to free him before he began to really suffer.  I know he is playing at the Rainbow Bridge with Mittens and the rest of our feleuk babies.  Thanks.