Re: Update on feral babies

[Nina]

Oh Beth!  Such good news on the four that tested neg!!  You really are blessed.  You talked about "surgery", so I assumed you meant the Momma is now spayed.  Is there someone that puts food/water out for the feral cats near your in laws?  It would be a Godsend to those kitties if you could hook up with a feral cat/rescue group in the area to TNR them and help you figure out a way to provide a caregiver to monitor the colony.  There's a feral cat group that you might want to join for ideas: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/feral_cats/  There are ways to get financial support for s/n and other vet costs as well.  I'm so glad you were there to help this litter, but there will be more, (obviously Momma didn't get pregnant all by herself!), and if there is felv in the colony, neutering and spaying will cut down on the fighting, (and of course the breeding), which will cut down on the suffering.  I'm sorry to be pleading with you to do even more than you have, but who will, if we don't? That little Alice sounds like such a doll!  Are you sure there's no way you could take her in?  From what you say about her greetings, it sounds like she's certainly chosen you!  I don't know Beth, I don't believe in coincidence.  I think the ones that come to us this way are put in our path for a reason.  Maybe the reason Alice and her family came to you was to help the rest of her colony, maybe it was to help her and her siblings to find forever homes, and maybe, just maybe, it was to bring little Alice into your life.  I know she would enrich it in ways you'd never imagine.  One of the kittens in my felv litter, Tim, did eventually test neg, because of that, I know that it's possible, (although, unfortunately, unlikely), for a pos kitten to clear the virus. Thank you so much for the good news about the other babies, Nina Gary Murphy wrote: Hello, Nina and Lance thank you so much for your encouragement, it is a much better day today. The four kittens were all FeLV Neg.!!!!  They get retested in a month, but so far, so good.  Little Alice should get her IFA results back later this week, she is staying with my in laws for now, has never been to our house or near Blue.  I am letting momma (Mia) go again this afternoon.  The 4 negs are staying at our house, sequestered in a bedroom until the next test.  My heart is breaking for poor little Alice, she is the nicest one of the bunch, leaps onto my shoulder whenever she sees me and starts purring.  My darling Blue is not a purrer or a cuddler, I was looking forward to that.  If Ally is IFA pos., we will not put her down, but try to find a home or a rescue to take her.  I am torn on what to do if she is negative, would like to keep her but afraid.  Our Blue is 14 months old, we rescued her as a very sick feral at 4 weeks, she has slept in bed with us since 7 or 8 weeks old, we have no kids and dote on her.  She is going in tomorrow for the vaccine, we didn't do it when we got her because of the risk of injection-site sarcoma, but will do it now with the newer adjuvant-free vaccine.  Please keep your fingers crossed for Alice, as I will for Ember and the other sweeties.  Thank you again,   Peace, Beth            [EMAIL PROTECTED]