I had double pos a few years back - Mr. Black Kitty (MBK) - course he
was kind of scraggly and off the street when I got him. I did no
special medical treatments, but did use special food at some point to
stop diarrhea, worked great. He broke one of his frail legs, but the
vet couldn't set it because it was so thin. I'm trying to remember -
think I wrapped it with a "splint" so he could walk better. But he
died suddenly after about a year, no signs of problems prior to that,
ate well too, just died one night.
I have 1 double pos now, B.B. He came to me in a pretty healthy
state, and he has no problems. He's about 5 yrs old, have had him for
a year, I think. All my feleuks are doing well now.
With the feleuks I've had that died, I've used pretty conservative
treatment on, figured why torture the kitties. Just try to keep the
stress down, and deal with symptoms and keep them comfortable. Have
had some chemo, some blood transfusions for anemia. If they're under 3
yrs, I use Interferon Alpha (which I can get cheaply) as a way to
boost the immune system.
Gloria
On Jun 22, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Kelley Saveika wrote:
Hi guys,
The off-topic part: We are trying to think of "catchy" names for
our new service where we take the pets of low-income people for
basic vet care (I.e. spay/neuter, rabies shot, etc).
The on topic part of this: as some of you read, one of the kitties
we had neutered through this program turned out double pos. So my
question is: How far should we really go with this cat? He has a
home, the owners cannot afford special care for him, I'm not sure it
makes any difference if he is really + or not. We got the other cat
in the household vaccinated and boostered. The problem is that the
more we do for any individual cat, the less we can do for other cats.
As a nonprofit we can get a discount on SNAP tests, but not (that I
know of) IFA tests.
I wish we could do everything for every cat, but clearly we can't do
that...
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