If he is just being over cautous, then he is okay. I would rather answer a dozen questions and not miss a problem in the making than the other way.
---- Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Right now I'm sticking with my current vet because he's a good diagnostician > and also gives me rescue rates. I think the problem with him is that he's > afraid to miss a symptom that might actually be from FIV or FeLv so he keeps > asking about the cats. He knows that I rescue hard cases. His wife who also > practices with him is totally OK with the FIV/FeLv types and rarely even asks > because she knows I will tell her if I have a worry that the illness may be > due to the disorder. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! ________________________________ From: "dlg...@windstream.net" <dlg...@windstream.net> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Why Are You Keeping This Cat Alive? Find another vet like your old one. Keep looking until you find one. ---- Beth <create_me_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My current vet & my previous vet all treat the symptoms like they would any > other cat, but I know plenty who don't. Beth Don't Litter, Fix Your Critter! www.Furkids.org ________________________________ From: Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> To: felvtalk <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 7:00 AM Subject: [Felvtalk] Why Are You Keeping This Cat Alive? One of the strangest problems I face with my FeLv+ and FIV+ cats is going to the vet for a simple health issue. I bring in a fat, sleek cat with a URI and the vet asks me, in the course of treatment "Is this one of your FeLv+ or FIV+ cats?" Well, I have to say yes because we are at the doctor's office and it's not good to hide medical facts from your cat's doctor, right? And most of the time, even though the vet knows my opinion on cats who have these two disorders, the cat is viewed as different from another cat with a URI or diarrhea, or whatever simple issue the cat is going through and several times I have gotten a lecture of the This Is The Beginning Of The End type along with the antibiotic shot or whatever the protocol was for the actual issue. I find this annoying and frightening because I feel that my special needs cats are being treated as hopeless and perhaps are being given less appropriate treatment than my regular cats. Has > anyone noticed this problem with their feline health care provider? There >is one vet who I used for 15 years until I moved 50 miles away that never did >this and never made me feel that I was selfishly keeping a sick cat alive. I >would bring in my FIV+ and FeLv+ kits and he would treat them the same way he >would treat the others. Even when I would tell him that Wally or Sugar or >whoever, was FIV+ or Taco was FeLv+ he would say, "Yes, I know. I did the >test, remember? But this is just an upper respiratory infection." and that >would be it. Shot given, pills prescribed, bill paid. I wish all vets were >like that. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
