Chrissy,
I think the Christmas cards are a great idea! In the
way of research, a place to start might be the
Veterinary Department at Texas A&M University. It's
the only vet school in Texas so I think the majority
of veterinarians in Texas go to school there and I
believe it has a great research facility. Also from
felineleukemia.com, I see that Auburn University does
research (a vet there created the FeLV vaccine), as
well as the University of Washington, University of
Southern California, Cornell, and University of
Pittsburg. There are only 27 veterinary schools in
the U.S. and I think they might be the best place to
start. I bet if you sent out a blanket letter to each
of them, you'd find that there are several doing
research. I have seen some research online and in
book form from Cornell. For the record, I would
definitely be interested in buying the cards when they
come out since the money will be going to a great
cause. And since I know several veterinarians in our
city, I might be able to get the cards there and sell
them at their offices. I imagine there are a lot of
us who would be willing to help you and your mom raise
money for FeLV. I think the money would be better
spent in research vs. shelters, considering that they
don't know as much as they need to about the virus.
Let me know what I can do to help!
:)
Wendy
P.S. I have an adorable picture of Cricket's face
(he's black with big yellow/green eyes) surrounded by
red Christmas garland (taken after he had, of course,
torn the whole Christmas tree apart-lol).
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