RE: stools, vomiting, I have noticed that for Casey, it is eating like a glutton, hurl food 10" into her bowl and across the floor or Harley or Dee irritate her and she hurls . Her loose stools I have not figured out yet. They come and go at irregular intervals. It could be that they are also tied to irritation. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT CALLIE IS EASILY IRRITATED, HAS A SHORT FUSE? Also could be because she ((CASEY) came from a shelter, had been locked in an 8' x 10' cage with several younger cats for a year. She has been tested for parasites of all kinds. Lil Bit was there with Casey but her only bad effects were that she hid from the others. I finally put a litter box in the closet for her. She could get in and out for water and I brought her food to the closet every feeding time so she could eat in peace and quiet. She passed earlier this year of a urinary track infection at 15 years. Annie also gets irritated with the "children" but she does not vomit or get loose stools, just hisses, slaps at them and then runs and hides. She was an only cat for 4 years and lived with her owner in a small trailer. Her owner had cancer and if she could not find a good home for her was going to put her to sleep. My vet kept working on me until I gave in and took her. The next day Kathy passed. Her sister put Annie in a box, brought her to the vet and I picked her up in my carrier and brought her home to a large house with a basement. She was terrified of 2 people and 1 cat and stayed in the basement for 2 weeks and came up when all was quiet and ate. She is now 8 years, FELV positive and healthy as can be. In fact she has less health problems than the others. Everyone is on Blue Buffalo dry with canned food at least once a week and especially if I am gone all day. We have 2 water fountains and everyone drinks sufficient water. AS FOR CLEANING, i USE VINEGAR AND WATER, HAVE NO CARPETS TO CLEAN. I ALSO VACUUM ALMOST EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF CAT HAIR FROM 5 CATS. PEOPLE AROUND HERE THINK I AM CRAZY FOR PAYING SO MUCH ATTENTION TO MY CATS, BUT IT IS BETTER TO PAY ATTENTION THAN LET THEM GET SICK. I JUST WISH THEY COULD TELL US WHAT IS WRONG.
---- Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> 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 <lini...@fastmail.fm> 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 >Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
