Kelly, now *I'm* confused. I don't want anything. I was just sharing
my personal experiences and putting some suggestions out there. Some of
the resources you or others may already know about, but others might be
new to some people. Feel free to list your Facebook resources so people
here are aware of those too. Or maybe you were really replying to the
same person I was replying to?
Idea for everyone: make up a flyer with some basic info about FeLV,
with a picture of one or more or your FeLV+ cats looking happy and
living the good life. Maybe put a link on the flyer to
felineleukemia.org or other resource(s). Distribute the flyer to local
vet offices for when the vet gets a client with a cat that tests
positive. The vet could show the flyer to the owner so that the owner
can see that there is support available, and that FeLV+ cats can live a
happy life for a variable number of years.
Marsha
On 11/14/2014 1:00 PM, Kelley S wrote:
There are some other places to list on Facebook, if you would like the
links. One thing that struck me when I read your post was confusion
on my part as to what exactly you wanted. It seemed to me reading it,
and I may be reading things into this, that you did not want the
kittens to go to a home with FELV+ cats in there already. That, in
addition to the adoption fee, is going to make it *almost* impossible
to ever find these kittens a home (nothing is 100% impossible of
course). Also, once you adopt the kitten out, you don't have control
over what the adopters do later. They may bring in FELV+ cats later.
My heart kitty died of heart disease brought on by a congenital
defect. I spent a lot of time holding her and crying because she was
going to die. They are all going to die, we hope after many years in
a happy home. I spent more time mourning her death than I did
celebrating her life. This was a grave mistake on my part.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Marsha <mar...@lynxe.com
<mailto:mar...@lynxe.com>> wrote:
Some adopters may make a donation to the organization they adopt a
zero-fee cat from. I did. You might make a cat low or no fee,
but say, "donations gratefully accepted". If you list on
PetFinder, consider adding FeLV+ to the heading, besides just
listing them as "special needs". Some people are looking
specifically for a FeLV+ cat as a companion for one they already
have, and not putting that in the heading forces those people to
sift through every special needs listing to find the FeLV+ kitty.
I turned to PetFinder after having no luck locally finding a
companion for Harley, and did a search by zip code. I specified
"up to 100 miles", and that's how I found Brock. Actually, 113
miles away, but the search goes by zip code.
There are also some listings here (up for adoption or looking to
adopt FeLV, FIV, FIP +):
http://www.bemikitties.com/felv/cgi-bin/suite/classifieds/classifieds.cgi
You can also get to that by the felineleukemia.org
<http://felineleukemia.org> website.
One other place to list is the PurringPixie yahoo group.
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