THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL!!! we are much, much clearer now - - including other possibilities - - and next moves. ethically as well. Hope has become much more at ease since being taken to the vet and brought "home". She is a talker. Both are now purring. health & laughter, healing & prosperity quiet hugs c, Pookashay, Mama, Scrumptious, Luscious, Henri, BreAnne, Shallie Marie, James and Harold, Hope & Schmitzi
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:12:17 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Hope, adult female testing faintly + on SNAP Sat, > 7.23 AND Schmitzi, 10-week-old kitten > > 10 weeks old could be an "iffy" age to test, that's why results could be > iffy, and if exposed, the kittens may shed the "faint" positive when their > immune systems develop. It would be important to feed them good > supplements, good diet. My vet would NOT have used all those vaccines at > the same time when their health was questionable - it's too much bombarding > them with all those vaccines. > If cats had the ELISA now, and they were negative, or tested "faintly", to > make sure, they should have another ELISA in 90 days, and if that is > negative and you are satisfied, that should be IT. > If the ELISA were to be positive, the IFA should be done almost immediately > to confirm because ELISAs are often false positives. > Seems that there's something else going on, like an URI, giardia (diarrhea). > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of czadna sacarawicz > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 11:40 AM > To: feline leukemia list > Subject: [Felvtalk] Hope, adult female testing faintly + on SNAP Sat, 7.23 > AND Schmitzi, 10-week-old kitten > > > what is done is done and don't ask me why or how. it is. don't ask me why > AC didn't identify a sick-appearing cat > > am fostering these two from gassing-daily county pound since 7.16. > > suspected Hope had feline leukemia when I picked her up - - THIN and HOT. > She and Schmitzi were housed side by side i.e. nose to nose for a week. > > spending my $. both have diarrhea. vet found them both negative for fecal > parasites. gave Schmitzi strongid, gave me albon to give her and vaccinated > her for feline leukemia, panleukopenia, herpes and calcivirus. > > next step is to do an IFA on Hope? interval? > > HOPE is not suffering. inactive. poor appetite. very, very sweet. if I > tell AC chief she tested + I believe he will demand and gas her. lethal > injection is supposed to be used for sick animals. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? > > both FIV negative. > > something going on in Hope's chest. periodic. not exactly like a sneeze > or cough. vet did give azithromycin capsules > > any comments, other than the obvious - - this woman has no/poor judgment - > - will be appreciated. > > thank you. > > > c > _______________________________________________ > 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
