RIGHT ON!!!!! ---- Amani Oakley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Randy > > Thank you for your kind comments. I think that we came together in this forum > because all of us were really fed up with the fact that most of us > encountered vets who immediately tell us to put down our FeLV cats. I > personally have vented many times in emails, about the extreme difficulty > most folks are encountering when asking for a Winstrol prescription (it’s a > LONG story), and vets often refuse to prescribe it because of a concern that > it MAY cause liver problems. So, bizarrely enough, they are soooo concerned > about our cats’ well-being, that they would rather have them dead than > subject them to a potential side-effect. Make sense??? > > All of us in this group are dedicated to trying to find a solution, rather > than a knee-jerk response of putting down the cat. But yeah, I too encounter > folks everywhere who think I am coo-coo for coco puffs! > > Amani > > From: Felvtalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Randy Henke > Sent: December-15-16 10:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Felvtalk] For all the kind souls who care so much > > I am new to this mailing list, our precious cat, Curly, having been just > recently diagnosed with FELV but already quite sick twice and just beginning > to rally (fingers crossed) from her second bout with severe anemia and > leukopenia. > > I just wanted to say how much I admire every one of you here who go to such > great lengths for their pets, nursing them back from the brink time and > again, spending hundreds or thousands of dollars for treatment after > treatment to give them as much time with us as we possibly can. > > My wife and I are both surrounded by friends and co-workers who think we are > fools for caring so much about an animal. They ask why we are so melancholy > and then look at us with disbelief when we tell them the reason. Their > philosophy is to take good care of their pets but when they get seriously > ill, it's time to put them down and move on. > > To me, such thinking could only come from cold, heartless and selfish > individuals. Sometimes I actually envy them because life would be so much > easier if I could think like they do. But I can't and I won't. Just because a > family member has four legs instead of two doesn't diminish their worth nor > does it detract from their will to live. We do them an egregious disservice > by shortening their lives when there are still viable options on the table > that can provide additional months or even weeks of quality life. > > The devotion and empathy that you people have for your cats is so touching to > me that I am sitting here right now crying. > > God bless every one of you. > Randy >
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