My cat Yang who I lost this summer made it to 3 with feline leukemia. She had to have gotten it as a kitten, I adopted her at five months and she hadn't been exposed since entering my care. We didn't know she had it until she had to be put down. It was a terrible shock, but she lived an excellent life up until two days before we put her down. On Nov 14, 2014 2:39 PM, "Marsha" <mar...@lynxe.com> wrote:
> 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> 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 website. >> >> One other place to list is the PurringPixie yahoo group. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > >
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