Thank you for all the great information. I guess the first thing I need
to do is get some different food. I think you guys would kill me if you
could because he is not getting the best food. Only because I didn't
know. This is the second vet he has been to. The first tested him and
called us immediately. They said he is positive and you should have him
put to sleep, he is a stray. We picked him up and called for the county
shelter to come get him. They never came. I started looking at what
being felv pos meant and said there is no reason to kill him! That is
when we found the new vet. He found the abscess and said bring him back
in 3 weeks. He may have called the other vet and found it was faint or
whatever, I will ask. No one ever told me any special care for him,
only that he needs to be taken to the vet for things that other cats
don't, such as a cough. Is it bad that he has gotten a belly since
coming inside? I am sure it is because he was not eating while on his
own. I just don't want to cause more damage to him. He has only been
here a short while but he is my heart and joy. My fourth child!.. Hey,
he is trying to eat pizza crust, yep, he is one of my kids. Don't
worry, I took it from him LOL
Thanks for the info again. I plan to start looking at it right now.
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Pink tinged watery stuff is USUALLY vomit, and it turns pink when they have
roundworms. I'd have him dewormed, if you haven't already (and don't freak out
too
much if you see spaghetti-like worms in the pink stuff somewhere down the
road). It
COULD be urine, but that would indicate an infection... the only thing that
turns
urine pink is blood, and the only way you get blood in urine is infection
(unless
he's been recently cathetered, in which case it could be trauma to the
urethra). You
can try to see if it's pee... wait for him to go to the litterbox, and as soon
as he
comes out, wipe his privates with a piece of white toilet paper, if he's just
peed,
you should get a little drop, and if it's pink, you know that's the orifice it's
coming from.
I think the house retest would be OK, if ALL you are hoping to do is check to
see if
it was a bad result (like due to human error). If you're retesting to see if
he's
throw the virus off, that's too son, and as others stated, you should use an IFA
test, not the in house ELISA SNAP test.
The very most important thing to do to care for FELV+ cats is to feed the very
BEST
food you can afford. Either homemade, or premium brands like Wellness, Innova,
or
Chicken Soup for the Cat brands. A lot of people supplement with Lysine and
vitamin
C. Plus lots give low dose oral interferon alpha. here's more info on that:
http://www.islandpharmacy.com/site/1420401/page/769212
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/9352/interferon.html
http://www.amarbio.com/03productcandidate.html
And here's my page with more links about FELV:
http://ucat.us/FELVFIVFIP.html
Here is the webpage for all of the popular treatments for FELV:
http://www.felineleukemia.org/treatmnt.html
Like I said, DIET should come first though!
Phaewryn
http://ucat.us
Adopt a New England FIV+ cat:
http://ucat.us/FIVadopt.html
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