I have to quote a humane society rescuer, "I never meet a cat I couldn't
love." Carolyn
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Bonnie Hogue wrote:
Yep. We loves 'em cuz they're there. Hemi hisses at me when I come
around
a corner too fast & startle her. Princess eats and sleeps all day.
Will is
afraid of his shadow. But as they are all "rehabilitated ferals" I
figure,
Who Knows what trouble they've seen. And I feel better seeing Hemi
sleeping
in the shade in the yard, or Princess curled up in her bed on the
couch, or
the lump of Will under the covers on my bed. They may be crazy, but
they
are safe and sound an provide good company and a few laughs!
Bonnie
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Of
Lorrie
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 4:39 AM
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Subject: [Felvtalk] Undesirable or just plain ugly cats
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!
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