Scott, Welcome to the group! We are always happy to have new memebers although we are sorry that you had to find us. We all enjoy hearing about beloved new additions to the family and how they were adopted.
Thank you for not having Max euthanized due to this disease. Despite the fact that FeLV is not yet curable, it is treatable. It sounds like Mandi and Max are happy as claims. I am so glad that they both are doing just fine. If you have any questions about any concerns please do not hesitate to ask. The members of this group are very knowledgeable, advisable, and caring. They will be glad to help in any way that they can. Again we are glad to have you with us. Lora --- "Scott B. Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list but perhaps some of you may have seen my posts on rec.pets.cats.health+behavior. I'm glad I found this list and I'm looking forward to gaining knowledge from your experiences. If you don't mind, I'd like to share 'our' story with you. We inherited a little girl kitten (Mandi) on October 12th of last year. We assume she was dropped off at the corner as she was only 7 weeks old and she looked very clean to be out in the cold rain for too long as it had been for a few days. We had immediately started her on a routine at the vets and all was very healthy except for a minor ear infection and some round worm eggs in her stool. She tested negative for both FIV and FeLV at the time. A few weeks later we adopted a little male kitten (Max) who is 1 week older than Mandi. He had papers saying he had all his first shots and had tested negative for Feline Leukemia, but hadn't been tested for FIV. We took him to the vet for his first visit and he had some bacteria infection in his ears and we had him tested for FeLV and FIV. He tested "weak positive" for FeLV. On his second visit, his test was a classified as "positive" - These were both Elisa tests done by the vet. At first we were extremely upset because we brought a FeLV positive kitten into our home with our FeLV negative kitten Mandi. The problem was the two had become inseparable pals and there was no way we were going to get rid of Max because we had grown so attached as well as Mandi and I think doing anything like that would have only caused stress on both of them. Mandi has been vaccinated for FeLV and today is still testing negative. Max has not been tested since the second test, but he is showing absolutely no signs. In fact, he's probably a bit "too" healthy for his own good! Mandi was spayed and Max was neutered over the last two weeks. They are both very happy and playful and spend just about every waking moment together. You can see them here: http://www.husted.cc/modules.php?name=Gallery We have them both on a MegaC powder regimen and Max is on interferon (7 days on / 7 days off). My wife and I were disappointed that we saw 3 different vets and the clinic and none of them offered any kind of advice or regimen for us to follow. It wasn't until I started searching on the net, the newsgroup, and reading the Cornell website and I actually had to request Interferon that I realized that many vets treat FeLV cats like they have adeath sentence. There was no way we were going to treat him like that! Anyways, again I'm glad I found the list and thanks for listening. Scott __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
