Amen.
If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion
and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with their
fellow man.
St. Francis
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From: Susan Hoffman
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: another despair - prayer for Rikki - ARF/FIP?
Sally works with FeLV+ cats and kittens. FIP is much more common in cats who
are FeLV+. At one time it was thought that FIP and FeLV were part of the same
disorder.
The cattery situations often involve inbreeding.
I am on the FIP list. I have lost rescues last year and this year to FIP but
they have always been kittens under 10 months in age.
Hideyo, PLEASE look at causes other than FIP. Please do not lock on FIP as
the only explanation. From what you have described I think you need to look at
toxins in the environment, whether cleaning supplies, herbal or other
alternative medicines, something else. Your situation does not sound like FIP
to me. It sounds like at least some of these cats may be ingesting a toxic
substance. You really need to do necropsies to get to the bottom of this.
Please, if you keep focussing on FIP, you may miss a preventable/treatable
cause.
Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not that common - but there are a couple people on FIP list who has
had a similar experience as I do - some lost 20 in catteries or a couple of
hundreds even in some sheleter - they were all young kittens -
I was just talking to a couple of people who have lost 6 of their cats one
after the other to wet and dry FIP - and also Sally forester lost a several
kittens to wet FIP within a few months period - once you lose a couple of them,
you become very sensitive to certain symptoms.. now I have one boy Toni who I
rescued a couple of months ago started showing URIs symptoms and reocuurance
low grade fever - I am not freaking out yet.. but low grade fever that keeps
come back is usuall suspicious.. on the other hand, my FIV boy toby had 107
temp yesterday all of sudden and sneeze,, and knew he did not have FIP, just
calici virus or something.. and temp went down with some homeopathic remedy..
dry FIP is very subtle .. you think they just don't feel too good but they
usually eat okay - that's why it's to easy to miss..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL
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Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 8:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: another despair - prayer for Rikki - ARF/FIP?
Hideyo, I am still not convinced they have FIP, still. It is very unlikely
for so many to get it at once. Can you consult with an internist?
Michelle
In a message dated 11/17/2006 10:13:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED] writes:
What a nice things to say, Marlyn - you are making me cry more..
It's very difficult with this diseases - as they did not come diseased
before they came to my house - FIP is a disease that produced by multihouse cat
household - so I am the main part of the reasons why they have had this disease
and I just can't change that..
