Sounds like you've got a great vet there. Congrats! Diane R.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Natalie Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Any advice appreciated. My vet always treats a cat with health problems with vitamin injections for about a week or two - vitamin B12, C, etc. - it builds up their immune system a bit before surgery. We call it "The Cocktail". You can't imagine how many cats' lives have been saved with these cocktails, practically coming back from the dead! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Diane Rosenfeldt Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Any advice appreciated. Generally spay/neuter is a good idea in most cases -- much less uncomfortable for the cat, since heat is usually excruciating for them. But this is a reason you should seek out a vet familiar with FeLV -- they should be able to judge whether Amber would be too stressed by the procedure, or figure out ways that she won't be (kitty Prozac?). Diane R. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jannes Taylor Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Any advice appreciated. I feel like I must be very cautious until I know for sure where we stand after the restesting. I do appreciate your story and do not feel as nervous about the situation as I did. This has certainly been a learning experience for me. I have loved cats all my life and try to spoil them as much as I can. It makes me feel good to see Amber get all the food she wants and I hear her purr. It is sad she has lost her freedom but I hope to be able to give her a good life. BTW, Do you think I should have her spayed or wait until after the restesting? My husband questions whether we should ever her spayed since she can't get out. Jannes ________________________________ From: Gloria Lane <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 7:04:01 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Any advice appreciated. I'd say don't worry about it. I just don't think it's that contagious. I mix mine. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Maureen Olvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I foster cats and kittens for my local humane society. Last week a 2 >year old kitty died. She tested positive for FeLV. I got her as a >kitten and at that time she tested negative. I have got quite a few >cats that have been living with me as long as she has been with me. >They all share the same food bowls and litterboxes. None are >vaccinated against FeLV since every cat or kitten that comes into my >house has been tested first. It terrified me when I found out she had >been positive, especially since I have a 5 month old kitten that has >been living with me since he was 8 weeks old. Today I had him and an >older kitten that is about 8 months old tested at the vet's office. >The older kitten has been with me since he was about 12 weeks old. They >both came out negative. A couple weeks ago I had an adult that had >been with me almost as long as the FeLV cat was with me and she tested >negative as well. So, I tell you this Jannes to confirm what the >others have said because it shows that not all cats contract FeLV and >there is no need to panic right now. The vet felt that since those >kittens and the cat that I had tested had been exposed to FeLV for so >long that if they were going to get it they would have already gotten it. Especially the cat that had lived at my house with the FeLV + cat for a year and a half. > > A friend of mine has also had 3 or 4 FeLV positive cats living >alongside her healthy cats for years. She gets her healthy cats >vaccinated against FeLV and they have never contracted the disease from >the FeLV cats. I would vaccinate your healthy cats now and let the >FeLV + cat run around the basement and if she tests negative in a few >months or test negative with the ELISA and IFA test I would let her in >the rest of the house with the other cats. But, that's what I would >do, not necessarily what you should do. Actually, I would trust the >vaccine and after your healthy cats get their vaccination (it takes a >series of two shots the first time) then I'd let all three hang together. But it's your cats and you have to make that decision. > > > > I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that >are profitable to the human race or doesnt .the pain which it inflicts >upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it >is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking >further. Mark Twain > > > >> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:26:53 -0700 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Any advice appreciated. >> >> I realize now that I did not address the concern you posted about. I >>felt the need to educate you about the testing protocol for FELV >>because I would hate to see you cage a cat for 3 months that may not >>even be infected with the virus. >>You cannot consider a cat persistently viremic until they test >>positive on the IFA test. >> >> >> If it turns out the cat you rescued is really FELV positive, she is >> not going >>to transmit the virus to your other cats through some chance >>encounter. It >>would take prolonged contact with your other cats to infect them with >>the virus. Even if they had prolonged contact, it does not mean your >>other cats >>would get the virus. Some cats are able to build an immune response >>and fight >>off the virus. I rescued a cat over the summer that tested positive >>on the >>combo snap test and the ELISA test but tested negative on the IFA. >>Thirty days >>later, he tested negative on the snap test, the ELISA test and >>continued to test >>negative on the IFA test. As a precaution, we tested again 30 days >>later, and >>he continued to test negative on all three tests. His body built an immune >>defense and fought off the virus >> >> --- On Mon, 3/14/11, Jannes Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> From: Jannes Taylor <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Felvtalk] Any advice appreciated. >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 1:50 PM >> >> >> Hello, >> I rescued a stray two weeks ago. Took her to the vet a week ago and >> they said >> she was FELV positive. She was starving when I found her, but she has gained >> weight and is looking good. Her eyes just glisten and she seems healthy. The >>vet >> >> said she was about a year old. She only weighed six pounds last week. >> I did not >> >> have the heart to euthanize her when she is not suffering. However, >> I have >> three healthy cats upstairs and I live in constant fear that they >> will escape >>to >> >> the basement where this cat we now call Amber is staying. I keep her >> in a nice > >> cage during most of the time and let her out to get her exercise in >>the basement >> >> about four hours per day. My husband is building her a 8' long x 4' >> wide x 6' >> tall cage so she will have more room I do hate keeping her caged up, >> but don't > >> have a choice. She is very sweet and it is just a sad situation. I >> tried to >>find >> >> a home for her but no one seems to want a cat with her issues. We are trying to >> >> be very cautious regarding the other cats, but it is does make me fearful. >> I plan to have her rested in three months. I am so new to this >> situation, so >>any >> >> comments or ideas are much appreciated. >> Jannes >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Felvtalk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.or >> g _______________________________________________ >> Felvtalk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.or >> g > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
