RE: food Go for a grain free food. My pride was having problems with upchucking after eating. Turned out several were allergic to wheat, corn and soy. We are now on Blue Buffalo and no more problems. I think it is really cheaper because I don't have to clean it up every time someone upchucks and throw it in the trash.
---- Lance <[email protected]> wrote: > The 2008 retrovirus document can be downloaded here: > > http://catvets.com/professionals/guidelines/publications/?Id=323 > > As for breaking the tie, your vet could run a confirmatory ELISA using a > different kit and plasma or serum rather than whole blood. But really, if 45 > days is what they want, that works. > > The FeLV testing protocol suggested on felineleukemia.org is: > > For healthy cats: > > http://www.felineleukemia.org/felvhlth.html > > For sick cats: > > http://www.felineleukemia.org/felvsick.html > > > > On Jun 13, 2013, at 1:52 AM, Karen Harshbarger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > All the younger ones are 13 months old----are from the same litter and > > there is one senior. The female never did test positive (and she lived > > with them at the start of her life). I think the first one didn't make it > > because we did not realize what we were dealing with and were not > > aggressive enough. They had all been sick with upper respiratory and > > couldn't seem to get rid of it and it just kept passing it around. If we > > had only known just how serious it was and that they had been exposed to > > leukemia somewhere along the line (not sure exactly how) we would have > > moved them into the garage sooner and been much more aggressive (and then > > Tig would have made it maybe---that is what I keep kicking myself about). > > Once we realized what we were dealing with we got major aggressive on > > everything--one sneeze or one little running of the eye, or sleeping too > > much, or not cleaning their food dish, etc and off to the vet we went. It > > scares me to think how much of our retirement savings we have spent---but I > > tried and tried to find financial assistance and just could not, so what do > > you do---couldn't let any more of these babies just waste away like Tig did > > if I could possibly do anything about it---so we just kept trying and are > > still treating aggressively even after the negative test. We also changed > > their diet from the cheapest we were using cause we had so many cats to a > > better more expensive food. > > > > But we are not out of the woods yet. The way my vet and some of the > > reading I have done explains that you need to get two tests that say the > > same thing because sometimes the test is wrong. Since 4 of them had a > > positive test and then a negative test, we need the third test to break the > > tie so to speak----hopefully the 3rd test will be negative and then my vet > > said we can rest assured that they are truly negative. The little female > > tested negative twice, so we keep her separate and figure she is pretty > > much in the clear---at least hope. (the two little ones that the no kill > > rescue took for us are about 10 months old by now and as I said one tested > > positive and one tested negative---we don't know how they came out on the > > second test but were told a few months back that they were both doing good). > > > > I would be interested in that research paper that you speak of. We all > > need to do as much as we can to fight and learn about this horrible > > illness. thanks Karen > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
