Hey Lee, You gave me a much needed laugh this morning, with your cat names. Among my crew is a "Fat Bastard" who has been with us for 8 years now. The thanks I get for rescuing him is getting bitten when I try to even briefly pet him. He is a miserable cat who bolts his food and then shoves his fat face in the other cats food bowls forcing them to run for their lives. I keep him because I'm too tender hearted to get rid of him, but oh how I'd love to find him a nice barn home.
Lorrie On 08-14, Lee Evans wrote: > You really have to decide why you are testing. If a cat is ill with the > Mystery Illness, of course you need to run some tests to pinpoint what > may be the cause of the illness. If you are adopting out, you probably > should do a combo test without the heartworm part which I learned from > this list can screw up the results of the other tests in the combo. > However, if the 4 kittens mentioned have tested negative, I don't see > any reason why not to adopt out. Because, and this is important to > remember, the person wanting the kitten or a couple of kittens will get > a couple of kittens from someone, somewhere and that person probably > won't test at all, just advertise "free to good home, healthy kittens". > As long as the test is not definitely positive, you can ethically adopt > out. I had an FIV+ cat who was not when I took him in. He was negative > but thin. I polished him up and fattened him up and took him for > adoption at the Humane Society here and they tossed him back to me as > FIV+. I retested and sure enough. He had been incubating it for the > months I had him fattening up and getting ready for his big day. Well, > I still have Lancelot, mixed in with my regular gang because that's how > he was when I took him home as a negative and he is still with me about > 7 years later. Now, I know this is only FIV, not as serious as FeLv but > still. You can't predict the future as far as will the cat some day > turn positive for FeLv. You shouldn't spend much needed money testing > and re-testing to make all the planets line up correctly. My three > originally positive FeLv cats who turned negative are still with me. If > anyone had wanted the ugly mutts, I would have cheered and given them > away in a nanosecond. But no one wanted a dumb possum faced tabby or an > all black cat with a sort of snake like face or Percy who had an > attitude and lost the virus but not the attitude. Lest anyone try to > get on me for calling them ugly mutts, hey I call it like it is. That > doesn't mean I don't love them. I love ugly mutts the most. Even when > they are cats. > > Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty > neighbors too! _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
