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I wrote that the Elisa FIV test is wrong 80% of the time, but meant
20%. I seem to have transposed the percentages.
I have learned a lot from the mistakes I made with positives early on, but
most of my mistakes resulted in death (the foster I wrote about, and heavy
stress from confinement causing lymphoma in two of mine, I think). I know
that happens frequently, but it is very hard to live with. The shelter
that my cats came from is a small volunteer shelter with about 150 cats. They
are the only ones in MA that take positives, to my knowledge. They never
euthanize due to FeLV or FIV status. But they don't do a lot of diagnostic
testing or care for problems either. When there is a problem and a cat stops
eating, they normally give fluids and antibiotics and force-feed for a week, and
if the cat does not start eating again at the end of the week they euthanize. It
horrifies me, and at the same time I know they are better about the positives
than most shelters. If I had really understood the whole thing I never
would have brought Jimmy back to them when he stopped eating. But I did not know
what to do at the time, and did not know their policy, and had had the cats less
than a month and was leaving for a few days to visit a relative so thought he
would be in better care there. I usually tell people that I took 6
positives from the shelter, but in reality I took 7 if you count Jimmy. I just
usually find it too painful to count him.
Michelle
In a message dated 8/29/2006 2:02:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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"Clavamox itself is a combination of 2 antibiotics." I knew that! See |
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