Rita’s a super person and she &
I have racked our brains to find the owners of a beautiful, clearly owned cat
that she got from K. rescues! She also took in a 17 year old and kept him as a
foster when we found his owners who just could not take him back right away.
She kept in touch with them constantly, had them talk to him on the phone, sent
pictures, etc. Unfortunately, Mr. Gray passed away and Rita was just great in
helping the owners deal with their grief.
-----Original Message-----
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Susan Loesch
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006
1:02 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: RE: Please add to the CLS
-Chris
YES! I had some correspondence with her when it
looked like our rescue group was going to Mississippi and then back straight
north thru Memphis. She'd said she could take a few Sr.
kitties. As it turned out the kitties that we were heading down to
rescue were gotten out of MS. earlier (thank goodness) than we could get there
- by a group from somewhere farther east, so we didn't make the trip. I'd
love to go to her shelter and just hold and pet.
Chris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You know in my
‘travels’ on the Katrina pets, I met a wonderful person in TN who
runs a very small home based shelter for only senior kitties. The two of
you should talk as she goes through the same things you do….. Ever
heard of PurreverRanch?
-----Original Message-----
From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Susan Loesch
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006
12:51 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: Please add to the CLS
Thank you. I am always going to have a
high death rate, I guess, because I take lots of elderly kitties and feleuks,
including kittens born with it. This was a little much, tho.
Terri Brown
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How sad. Big hugs to you. That's a lot to
deal with -- one right after the other.
Goodnight, sweet babies.......
=^..^= Terri, Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere,
Sammi, Travis, Dori and 6 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth,
Alec & Salome' =^..^=
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday,
February 17, 2006 2:17 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.
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