I'd be interested in getting this advice as well! I have a 7month old FeLV positive kitten. No symptoms or illness. And if she doesn't find a loving home by August (not likely - given the deluge of cats out there!), I'm going to integrate her with my non FeLV cat (7 years old and healthy). What can I do to keep them both as healthy and as safe as possible? Also, the 7 year old has never had a FeLV vaccination before. The vet recommends it... but I've heard there are also issues with the vaccine... help? Feel free to email me directly - [email protected] with suggestions/advice! Sandra
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Orth, Sarai<[email protected]> wrote: > I subscribed to this mailing just a few weeks ago when I found out that > my 2 kittens were FeLV positive. I committed to caring for them though > the first vet (who since I have since stopped going to) told me to have > them put down and "spare myself the agony and financial burden". > > > > My girl kitty, Bella, 4 months old had a pretty bad herpes infection > with a fever of 105 for over two weeks. She stopped eating her hard food > and I so I was spoon feeding her baby food to try to get her to gain > weight. She was also on antibiotics- She had good days and bad days, it > was quite the roller coaster for those weeks. She seemed to be doing > better this past week- interacting more, eating lots, etc. Then all of > a sudden, in the middle of the night on Wednesday, her neurological > system went haywire. She began biting herself uncontrollably, running > into walls, stumbling around and she lost most of her vision. Within 6 > hours of the symptoms beginning, we were forced to love enough to let > her go. Our new vet was wonderful and helped us through the whole > process with kindness. He thinks that the leukemia went systemic and > settled in her brain. It feels like it happened so fast. While we are > still grieving our loss, we are also very worried about our other > kitten. While he is FeLV positive, he has not had any clinical issues. > He seems perfectly normal, loving and active. > > > > I am wondering if there are others out there with a "not sick" FELV > kitty and if so, what kind of measures are you taking to help increase > their chance of making it through this? Our vet said that if he makes it > to 6 months old, we may be able to re-test to see if he has suppressed > the virus. He is just over 4 months old now and has lost his sister, > which has been very stressful on him. He is an indoors only kitty. We > also have him taking Lysine (to keep herpes symptoms at bay) and > Pet-tinic (vitamins). > > > > ~Sarai > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
