Congrats! That's wonderful, Sue. My personal "baby" is a flame point mix who's over 10 - not FELV, but he used to hang out with 2 of my FELV babies who are not gone to the bridge. So I have a soft heart for flame points.
Gloria On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Sue Koren wrote: > Hi Everyone! > Saturday I went to a local cat rescue home and adopted a beautiful > 16lb. flame point siamese boy. He is 10 years old and FeLV+. > I have been missing my cuddler, Tucker, so much that I just wanted > another loveable lap cat kitty. There were over 200 cats in that > home but when I picked up Orlando it was all over. He just snuggled > right in. His previous owner passed away in January. She had a lot > of acreage, a couple of barns and a shop where she made signs. She > had 17 cats who roamed the place and were never let inside or given > vet care. When she passed away her husband brought all the cats to > this rescue and several were FeLV+. Ironically, that was about the > time Buzz was diagnosed and I was still trying to find a home for > him. When I called this rescue they told me that they had just > taken in several positives and did not have room. If someone had > told me then that I would be taking one of the positives I never > would have believed them. > Anyway, Orlando is a very special sweetheart of a cat. He is even > getting along fairly well with the other 5. Yesterday I had him to > the vets and they found that he had once had a broken leg that was > never taken care of and healed wrong. (I knew his back right leg was > stiff). Time will tell if that is something to take care of now or > not. They also re-confirmed the FeLV+. Anyway I am getting way too > long winded. > Thanks for listening to me ramble, > Sue > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
