I know, I am sure that Christ Yoder is very hard pressed for money.
If adopters were well informed prior to taking the cat, then it MIGHT not be
such a bad thing.
There are so many people out there who have no idea about felv,the adoption
staff @ a "no test" shelter would really have to be informative for every
adopter.
And yes, there are no guarantees,ofcourse, 3 months down the line.
Susan J. DuBose >^..^<
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelley Saveika" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: This is pretty interesting
On 9/4/07, Susan Dubose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I read the article,and their biggest reason was the cost.
>
> It's irresponsible to not test a cat prior to adoption, if nothing else,
> you
> will know it was neg/ neg @ the time of testing,can be retested later.
>
> So,if you are adopting out cats and charging a fee, what exactly would the
> fee cover, besides surgery,(if even that?).
Vaccinations, deworming, whatever has been done to the cat. Some
rural shelters can't afford surgery. I was talking to the new
director of Christ-Yoder at the TASC conference and she told me that
she was trying to get local vets to donate just 4 low cost surgeries a
month and was not having much luck with that. It was really sad. But
that's getting off the subject (and Christ-Yoder doesn't combo test
either that I know of).
>
> Do you (not YOU Kelly) just say, "Well,folks, here is your kitty, it may
> or
> may not have felv or fiv.
> We wouldn't know because we don't test for that here.
> Feel free to have your new cat tested though.
> Oh, and if it comes up positive you can talk to your vet about options?"
It looks like what the places who opt not to test do is offer the
option to the adopter to have the cat tested at the time of adoption.
Or yes, the person could choose to take the cat to their vet if they
wanted.
We actually combo test all cats before adoption, but the frustrating
thing about this disease to me is that one negative or positive test
doesn't really seem to mean too much.
AAFP standards call for testing a cat any time it becomes severely
ill, regardless of previous test results.
So really unless you are willing/financially able to retest all cats
in your household every 6 months or so, you don't know what you have.
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