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You're very welcome, I hope the info helps! It does sound like you have a
better vet now. Don't worry, this group has educated many vets, most in the USA,
so it's not just in other countries where the lack of knowledge is, it's
everywhere. Don't look down on Chile for it, every country has room for
improvement!
Just FYI, hemobartonella causes the anemia (it's also known as Feline
Infectious Anemia), and THAT is treatable.
Renal failure, depending on how far advanced, might not have been something
you could have helped much.
Not trying to bring you down, just want you to know that sometimes, the
vets can be wrong, and the only way to save the NEXT one is to actively educate
them. I highly recommend you print out any info YOU find useful on FELV,
Infectious Anemia, or Renal Failure, and personally hand deliver it to the vet
that you had before that didn't KNOW enough to help your cat. THAT is how you
take a bad thing, and make it into a positive way to memorialize your cat, and
honor her memory. :)
It's great to educate your new vet, but you should go out of your way to
educate the old vet as well, it may very well save someone else's cat! The info
is out there, it is up to us to get it to the people who can use it. In an ideal
world, vets would stay up to date on their own, in the real world, their
continuing education gets lost in overloaded patient appointments, unexpected
emergencies, and, honestly, often burn out. If we can help THEM, then they can
help the animals! (of course, there is the occasional hopelessly closed-minded
egotistical assh*le vet that will take your info as a personal insult to his/her
competence, but you can't win them all)
Phaewryn (was Jenn, changed name) http://ucat.us http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Adopt a cat from Little Cheetah (UCAT) Cat Rescue: http://ucat.us/adopt.html PLEASE DONATE TO THE TANGLE FUND: Tangle is a cat in Greece that was severely injured when someone wrapped wire around his neck to strangle him, Little Cheetah Cat Rescue is raising funds to bring Tangle to Vermont to find him a good home! http://ucat.us/tangle-fund.html DONATE: We could really use a power saw (for construction), a digital camera (for pictures), and more towels! |
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