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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:17
PM
Subject: Please add to the CLS
I sadly have 3 babies to add - all 3 were about 2-2 1/2 years old.
My little Jack died on Jan. 21. He was the sweetest little orange tabby
boy, no bigger than a 6 month old kitten. During his last weeks he was
always cold so he always beat me to bed at night and was waiting under the
covers for me. Our vet suspects that he had feleuk in his bone marrow
but we didn't test him - and on the snap tests he repeatedly tested
negative.
On Feb. 8th I lost Cheyenne. She was a little Siamese baby - small
but not as small as Jack. She was definitely feleuk positive. She came
to me at 4 months from a Tx kill shelter -- in fact Gloria and I read about
her on this list - and Gloria went to Tx to pick her up along with a great big
ol' dlh orange tabby boy, Charlie, who is FIV+ -- and thriving. For the
first few weeks I had to make Cheyenne let me hold her - and then one day in
my arms she just sighed this big sigh and relaxed and became my sweet outgoing
little girl.
Then, on Feb 9, Sweet Willie Brown died. He was a tiny tabby when
he came to our rescue group - spent his whole kittenhood with one
sickness or another and the for the last year and a half was so thin that he
looked to be at death's door. He also repeatedly tested negative and our
vet suspects feleuk in the marrow. Just a few months ago extensive
bloodwork showed nothing but a little anemia and a slightly elevated white
count. He finally began to put on weight and I took him to our Board
meeting on the 20th to show off how chubby he was. He has always been a
favorite of everyone in our rescue group- and he spent the evening sitting on
one shoulder and then another. Shoulders were his "thing". I miss
that "out of nowhere" feather touch as he landed on my shoulder - have
shoulder will pounce.
There are now 3 more angels in the heavens and I know they are playing
together, all healthy, at the Rainbow Bridge.
