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Yes, unconscionable describes it completely! I was working for a vet
though, it wasn't my office, so I had very little say in the matter. Before I
worked there, he NEVER got out of the cage, since I left, I worry that is again
still in that cage. I considered breaking into the place and stealing him at one
point after I left. If anyone lives in Memphis TN. and wants to try to free him
(if we have any crazy animal rights types on the group, LOL), I can give you the
address of the office, but it's been years since I've been there, and I don't
know if the office is still there, or if Sugar is still there if it is. He
did save countless lives though, so at least his life had/has a purpose.... If
we could create a national CAT blood bank, like now exists for dogs, vets
wouldn't have any excuse to make a cat live that life. I'm sure that vet wasn't
the ONLY one with an office "blood donor" cat, though most allow them to roam
the office, not live in a cage in the back.
If you want, we can discuss it further on the Off Topic list..... :)
Phaewryn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 3:36
PM
Subject: RE: PLease...need HELP - long,
sorry
Yeesh. Now you're making me feel sad for
Sugar.... Didn't that arrangement seem, well,
unconscionable?
Diane R.
That kitten, I referred to earlier, it was a 7 hemocrit, I guess I left
that out in the message. The vet was shocked it was alive, and we did rush a
blood transfusion, luckily (for us, not for poor Sugar), we did keep a blood
donor cat in the office. The kitten went home the same day, after I defleaed
it using dish soap because it was too young for flea shampoo.
Poor Sugar, I always wonder what became of him after I left, he was the
blood donor cat, he lived his life in a 2x2x2 cage in the kennel, except for
early mornings before we opened for about 1/2 hour, and Sundays, while I was
there cleaning kennels. Beautiful long haired solid white deaf boy.
Phaewryn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 1:25
PM
Subject: Re: PLease...need HELP - long,
sorry
At 10:09 AM 11/6/2006, you wrote:
I am not really
familiar enough to know, I just know that the transfusion does buy you the
time..and then you can use some of these other ideas, Right now Ido not
thinkl you have the luxury of waiting around, Just my
opinion.
Kelly
Thanks, Kelly. Have you
ever had or heard of a kitty coming back from a 7
hematocrit?
kelly
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- At 09:47 AM 11/6/2006, you wrote:
- With a crit of 7 I think stress may be secondary. I would do the
transfusion and try to buy a bit of time...go from there.
- Kelly
- Does anybody have any ideas? Susan(who wrote a message
today) has a critical situation with her FELV baby Valley - a
beautiful flame point Siamese. Didn't want to miss out on any
suggestions, as it was a long message. Thanks -
Gloria
- On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Susan Loesch wrote:
- ...
- And now Valley - please put him on the special needs list - I
need prayers or meditation or chanting or whatever you believe in --
for a remission for the feleuk crisis he is in. He is another
of my "library cats" who comes to work with me. He was a
rescue from a kill shelter about 5 years ago - he was 1 or 2 at the
time. Feleuk positive. Looked like death warmed over but
once fattened up has been so healthy that I had him retested last
year to see if he'd reverted to neg.
- He began losing weight about 2 weeks ago - gums pale as
snow. Blood work shows a hematocrit of 7 - almost not
compatible with life. He is still somewhat active - gets off
the bed to go to the litterbox and sometimes to the rest of the
house. Will eat if I put food in front of him. His vet
thought we could get a remission until the blood work came
back. He is getting raw liver, Clindamycin, 5mg pred
every day, PetTinic, interferon. I have immunoregulin and
could try that. I asked about Epogen and the way my vet
explained it is that with feline leukemia, where the bone marrow is
basically "dead" and not going to produce red cells, to give Epogen
would be like knocking on the door when nobody is home.
We decided against blood transfusions due to the stress and the
short term result. Does anyone have any ideas?
- I apologize for the length of this. Thanks for
reading.
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