I think that at one point or another, we all think we have it all under control. I have begun to realize that perhaps I am here to provide a home, food and what care I can for them for the time I have them whether it is long or short. I take them in, love them for whatever time I have them. Hopefully that will help erase some of the pain and sadness they have been through before they came to me. In the last few years, I have been home to 2 dogs and over 20 cats. Everyone around here thinks I am crazy but I get much love and happiness in return. That is payment enough.
---- Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Margo, most of my cats are special needs also. Either they have behavioral > problems (litter box issues mostly) or physical issues - one tripod, one half > blind, several old, one allergic to something we can't figure out but she > loses her fur in patches, then grows it back and another has seizure disorder > - like epilepsy in humans but not as severe. Several have or are developing > stomatitis. It's just one thing after another. I have one from a colony I > used to feed who has bone cancer but eats and does everything normally except > that her days are probably numbered. I seem to be a way station for tossed > out cats. And you seem to have the same problem. The only way to cope, aside > from crying 24/7 is to just feel you are doing the best you can. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! >________________________________ > From: Margo <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:58 PM >Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] For Chang......Cat dying at home > > > > > > > I think I agree with you. This is just so new, and was >quite a shock. When it comes to the cats he's been with, I do understand that, >as my Vet put it, "that ship has sailed". It's the need to add a cat to them >that has me flummoxed. The more I "learn" (as there are so many differing >stances, opinions, and conflicting results when it comes to FeLV) the more >confused i get. >> >> You're right, I will find a way to live with it, I'm >>just not there yet. I've dealt with so many other issues (all the cats I kept >>were special needs of some kind or other, and considered un-adoptable) that I >>thought I had it all under control. Much of it is that I feel so helpless. >>There just isn't really anything with any kind of documented success rate, I >>can "DO" for him. My cabinet full of meds and very co-operatve Vet are just >>plain useless. >> >> Anyway, thanks for the input. I can just do what I can >>do. >> >>Margo >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Lee Evans >>Sent: Apr 28, 2013 3:15 PM >>To: "[email protected]" >>Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] For Chang......Cat dying at home >> >> >>You could drive yourself crazy worrying about all of that. I had two cats >>living in a group of 12 for over 13 years. When they were very old, they >>developed renal failure. I took them for sub-q therapy as I do all my renal >>compromised cats until I see that the situation has progressed beyond a good >>quality of life. However, Tigger and Twerp developed some other symptoms that >>were very odd. Twerp had been tested twice for FeLv, Tigger once in the past. >>The vet suggested another test. Both were positive and active in the virus. >>Both passed away several days after the test. The other 10 cats who had lived >>with them, groomed and been groomed by them, shared food, litter boxes and >>sleeping nests never tested positive. All are gone now, most living to age 14 >>and over, all from renal failure except one who had an ear tumor that >>progressed rapidly. He had to be euthanized because it was inoperable. I >>really feel that worrying and giving off negative feelings > to the cats is going to do more harm than the exposure to the virus. You > have to let go sometimes and leave it to the Universe to decide. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >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
