Good point. I’ve been wondering about the possible pattern nature of this, too, Lee. I don’t know what would fall into that, other than possibly a flavor of the food they eat gets rotated in that does this. As far as I know, there’s nothing environmental that would account for this. Just not sure.
I’m sorry to hear about Bunny. FeLV seems so random, and the ELISA doesn’t always seem reliable. I worry that Callie’s initial negative test was false. I think a PCR test could potentially catch an otherwise invisible infection, but I’m pretty sure those aren’t offered here in the US. I’m glad Moses is still doing well. My FeLV+ girl is over 11 1/2 years old, and no matter how she got it, she was definitely persistently infected as of March 2006. She has minor sneezing issues on occasion, and she used to get diarrhea very rarely. Otherwise, she’s pretty normal—for a cat, anyway. ;-) On Dec 15, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > With Callie's weird stools, I don't feel it would be lymphoma. More likely, > if it happens on a schedule, as you said every few weeks, it's environmental. > Does your mom have the house cleaned with something that Callie could inhale > or ingest? Does she buy different cat foods for the cats? Maybe run out of > one cat food, buy another every few weeks? Check out things like that. > > Well, I'm not a big fan of testing any more. My poor Bunny was tested when > she was brought to me and was positive for FeLv. I kept her more than the > required time, retested and she was negative. We all cheered. She lived with > me a little under a year from then. She came as an 8 month old teen, was > spayed and given the rabies vaccine. Stayed healthy after her retest until > October of this year. Then she just faded. She stopped playing, stopped being > a silly nuisance to Delilah and Samson and finally stopped eating. I took her > to the vet because I noticed her gums looked pale. Not flea anemia. He > retested her and she was positive for FeLv. He explained that maybe the first > test was a false negative or maybe the virus was lurking in the bone marrow > as well as the regular place in the blood. He gave her a vitamin shot, gave > her anti-biotic shot and she seemed to rally for a couple of days, ate a bit, > then on Oct. 31 she just lay down in the bed I made for her on the floor and > passed away. So, tests are just that - tests but they are not crystal balls > and can't predict what will happen to a cat in the future when it comes to > FeLv. Bunny would have been two years old in April, 2014. On the other hand, > Moses, who overcame the positive FeLv diagnosis and turned negative, is still > with me after 7 years. > > > > On Sunday, December 15, 2013 5:10 PM, Lance <[email protected]> wrote: > The bite seems to be about the same as it was yesterday, though maybe a > little less red where the actual teeth penetration occurred. Fortunately, no > pink lines are other odd marks have showed up near the wound. I didn’t go to > the clinic, since things look like they’re doing well. My health has been a > little funky for the last six months, but I feel like my immune system is in > reasonably good shape. > > Anyway, some of you may remember that my FeLV+ (Ember) probably bit an FeLV- > (Callie) who hasn’t been vaccinated since her kitten days seven years ago. > Callie, who was almost definitely FeLV- before this encounter, tested > negative at 37 days post-exposure, but she wasn’t retested at the usual 90 > day mark. She’s my mom’s cat, and my mom is reluctant to test. I think she > just doesn’t want to know. While I understand that, the anxiety from not > knowing occasionally really gets to me, and there are things we could do for > Callie to prolong her life, despite what my parents seem to think. > > Callie has had bouts of diarrhea since the encounter. I don’t know if she had > anything like this before it, as I didn’t really pay close attention to that > aspect of her life. She had frequent runny poops in June and July (around the > time of the negative FeLV test), then the frequency went down, **as far as I > know and have been told**. > > Since around August, the runny poops hit daily for one to three days every > three to four weeks. Again, this is from what I can gather. Earlier today, > Callie had a normal poop, but in the same bowel movement, there was some > watery stool on top of the normal stuff. If she’s positive, what could this > be, other than lymphoma? If she ISN’T positive, then what might this be? Very > odd that it happens every few weeks. > > > Thanks, > > Lance > _______________________________________________ > 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
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