My vet has never told me to put down my FelV cats. and some of them have
lived to be 8 or 9 years old and have never been sick. Others have not
been as fortunate and those I treat until I see that I am only keeping
them alive and they are suffering. Those poor cats should be put to sleep.
Lorrie
On 12/16/2016 04:55 AM, Amani Oakley 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:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] *On
Behalf Of *Randy Henke
*Sent:* December-15-16 10:22 PM
*To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
*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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