Re: Sharing food

[Cherie A Gabbert]

Thank you for the clarification.

"Gloria B. Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Cherie - Lysine inhibits the growth of the Herpes virus that causes a
URI - it's an Anti-viral. Dosage for cats is 250-500 mg twice a
day. Sometimes I've read (and tried) that mixing it with vitamin C can help.

Gloria


At 10:46 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote:
>All, 5 share boxes and they all share food, now I am worried. What is
>Lysine? What does it do for Princess?
>
>Barbara Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>i do not let mine share food dishes because the little buggers lick their
>plates and to me, that's "sharing saliva"(tho they do try claiming they're
>starving!!) ...however nothing i can do about litter boxes sharing in a
>mixed household. Jelly roll tested negative at 8 wks old then was positive
>a year later even tho he'd had vacs and was on vit c and other
>supplements. he came f! rom a litter of 3 and his biggest sister died at 12
>weeks and i never had an autopsy done. his other sister, Princess who is
>negative(knock on wood), does have feline herpes-and red that runs from
>her eyes and sneezes if I dont' keep her on lysine 2x day 500 mg.
>barbara
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Cherie A Gabbert
>To: felvtalk@vlists.net
>Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:13 AM
>Subject: Sharing food
>
>Hi,
>I am curious since all of this has happened with Snowball and now Amber, I
>have read numerous things, it is said that if cats share foods, the
>uninfected cat can be infected, but I have also read and heard from this
>group that the FeLV virus pretty much dies as soon as it hits air. When I
>asked my vet she said prolonged nose to nose contact and a bite from the
>infected cat, I am confused, ! can someone give my some correct information.
>Thank you
>Cherie