Oh my.........don't look at a few more months my friend. Dixie lived
three wonderful years. She was full grown and with a totally unknown
and not good history. She had been a cared for cat at least to the
point that she had been spayed, liked to be petted etc. Some how she
found herself homeless and wound up with the ferals my Mom puts food
out for. She was such a darling I decided to make her a farm cat and
took her to my wonderful vets to be spayed (I didn't know she had
been). She tested positive, won my heart and has kept it firmly in
her paws even though she left this world June 12, 2008. She had
holistic and regular vet care, the best food I could give her
including Primal Raw which many advise against but on which she
thrived, lots of chopped veggies high in vitamin C and iron,
colostrum, and other supplements. She was in wonderful health until
just before she left this world. The suddenness of the end
was ........well, it was totally unexpected. For a long time I
thought she had beaten it. The fine people on this list helped so much.
Please do not put limits on the time he will be with you. If you do,
you will live, if you can call it that, in dread, pain and grief. He
would not have that for you any more than Dixie would have wanted it
for me. We all leave this world. We all leave from something. None
of us are guaranteed a second. Do not exit like that. You will
deprive yourself of the wonderful love he gives you and the lessons he
has to teach and you will deprive him of your unconditional love
because, every time you look at him it will be with a dread you will
both know. The stress will make you both miserable and will harm your
other cats' hearts too. Do everything you can for all your cats and
be very gentle with yourself. None of this is your fault. As much as
you and I and all who love try to protect those we are devoted to, we
can not protect them from everything. We just can't. By the way,
Dixie totally enjoyed her life but there are many on this list and
many I know of who have lived much, much longer. Throw away the
calendar. It has no place in the heart.
On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Amy Ackerman wrote:
Just wanted to say a quick hello to all the list members- i've just
joined upon learning this afternoon that my much adored 10 year old
cat is positive. We're unsure as to how he contracted feluk as he
was tested before we adopted him, and the two cats we have adopted
since then were both tested... sigh. We take the other two in
tomorrow morning to be tested & hopefully vaccinated, and then we'll
bring my big boy home. Hopefully he will be with us for at least a
few more months. I've been scouring the archives and can't express
enough gratitude- there is so much wonderful information & support
here. I look forward to being a part of this community. Amy
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