RE: Marley Please add to the CLS :(
Gosh, Sherry, I'm so sorry. Marley sounds like a very special little guy indeed. As always, hugs to you all. I know Marley is telling everybody at the Bridge the same kind of wonderful things about you guys, including the slow dancing. Diane R. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherry DeHaan Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:52 PM To: Felvtalk Subject: Marley Please add to the CLS :( This is one of the biggest heartbreaks that I have had to deal with since I started volunteering at Sids.Marley was the most beautiful,handsome,sweet loving black cat that I have ever met.I know that MANY MANY volunteers are crying today for the loss of our Marley.Every cat that comes into our care leaves us with a piece of our hearts,well Marley took ALOT more than that!! He has touched all of us in so many ways.I will miss our slow dancing while he stared soulfully into my eyes.Yes we slow danced. :) I swear he totally listened and understood what I said to him.Monday night was the last time I had the chance to tell him how much I loved him and how special he is to me.He actually meowed at me,he didnt do that much.the aweful disease spread ti his brain and Jen had to let him go yesterday.she sent out a very sweet e-mail to all of us,title Goodbye to our Amazing Marley.He was truly an amazing boy.The place will NEVER be the same.But it will still be full of love. Thank you all so much, Sherry Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsear ch/category.php?category=shopping This electronic mail transmission and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. They should be read or retained only by the intended recipient. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the transmission from your system. In addition, in order to comply with Treasury Circular 230, we are required to inform you that unless we have specifically stated to the contrary in writing, any advice we provide in this email or any attachment concerning federal tax issues or submissions is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, to avoid federal tax penalties.
RE: Marley Please add to the CLS :(
I'm so sorry Sherry. Marley was clearly an extraordinary little soul. I'm glad he had so much love and was so very appreciated by everyone at Sids. Once again, thank you and your fellow volunteers and Dr Jen for all you do. Dr Jen sounds an extraordinary vet too. big hugs, Kerryxx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherry DeHaan Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:52 PM To: Felvtalk Subject: Marley Please add to the CLS :( This is one of the biggest heartbreaks that I have had to deal with since I started volunteering at Sids.Marley was the most beautiful,handsome,sweet loving black cat that I have ever met.I know that MANY MANY volunteers are crying today for the loss of our Marley.Every cat that comes into our care leaves us with a piece of our hearts,well Marley took ALOT more than that!! He has touched all of us in so many ways.I will miss our slow dancing while he stared soulfully into my eyes.Yes we slow danced. :) I swear he totally listened and understood what I said to him.Monday night was the last time I had the chance to tell him how much I loved him and how special he is to me.He actually meowed at me,he didnt do that much.the aweful disease spread ti his brain and Jen had to let him go yesterday.she sent out a very sweet e-mail to all of us,title Goodbye to our Amazing Marley.He was truly an amazing boy.The place will NEVER be the same.But it will still be full of love. Thank you all so much, Sherry Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsear ch/category.php?category=shopping _ IRS CIRCULAR 230 NOTICE. Any tax advice expressed above by Mayer Brown LLP was not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, by any taxpayer to avoid U.S. federal tax penalties. If such advice was written or used to support the promotion or marketing of the matter addressed above, then each offeree should seek advice from an independent tax advisor. This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.
URGENT: Tiger Ranch sanctuary
Just in case anyone has ever worked with or sent a cat to Tiger Ranch in PA. Looks like they're looking for any individuals or groups who may have brought cats there. http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThisetMail ToID=1831313090 SPCA tries saving Pa. shelter's cats | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/15/2008* SPCA tries saving Pa. shelter's cats By Amy Worden INQUIRER STAFF WRITER From New York to Indiana to Georgia, desperate animal-rescue groups regularly turned to the Tiger Ranch Cat Sanctuary near Pittsburgh and its promise of lifetime care for unwanted cats that likely would have been euthanized in overcrowded shelters. In the last year, thousands of cats, some feral, many others once family pets, have been shipped hundreds of miles to what their rescuers thought was a safe haven. But the reality, revealed in a nighttime raid led by the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania SPCA last week, was anything but safe. A 120-member team of shelter workers, police, veterinarians and volunteers descended on the property, 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, on Thursday night after a seven-month undercover investigation and found hundreds of sick and dying cats, 105 cat carcasses in freezers, and a fresh burial pit. What struck me was how young the cats were, Howard Nelson, chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania SPCA said yesterday after witnessing several autopsies. They did not die natural deaths. They were coming in healthy, were exposed to horrific viruses, and died a horrific death. Conditions were deplorable in a house and five outbuildings, crammed with scores of cats huddled around a portable heater with no clean water and a single food bowl, humane officials said. Over the next 48 hours, about 400 cats, almost all suffering from life-threatening disease, were seized in what SPCA officials said might have been the state's largest anti-cruelty raid ever. Agents yesterday were trying to round up 250 to 300 cats still roaming the 29-acre property. The sanctuary's owner, Linda Bruno, 46, also known as Lin Marie, was arrested and charged with 14 counts of animal cruelty. She was held in an Allegheny County jail after being unable to post the $50,000 bond. More cruelty charges are pending, authorities said. Word of the raid spread quickly throughout the Mid-Atlantic and South as horrified rescue groups flooded the SPCA with e-mails and posted frantic notes on Internet message boards wondering what had happened to their animals and how to get them back. Many, many cats from Georgia went to Tiger Ranch, said Pat Dasenbrock, who works with cat-rescue groups in Atlanta. A driver took cats by the van load - 50 or 60 of them there - twice a month. They traveled the 700 miles to Pittsburgh because Georgia has a serious cat overpopulation problem, and many adoptable shelter cats end up in gas chambers, generally regarded as an inhumane method of euthanizing animals, Dasenbrock said. We felt so good about Linda, she said. She told us she adopted 100 cats a weekend and that there was a long list of people waiting to adopt cats up there. Rose Rosenbaum of Hillsborough, N.J., said she had taken eight rescued cats to Tiger Ranch last year and found a line of others waiting to surrender cats. She said she had seen a few cats with runny noses but thought the facility looked fine. We were surprisingly happy with what we saw, she said. I wonder if it just got out of hand. Bruno charged between $1 and $25 for every cat she took in, according to those who did business with her. There has not yet been a full accounting of her business. Nelson said the public had not seen the worst sites on the property: the burial pits out back and an area an investigator called the death room, where cats with untreated diseases languished, too weak to reach their food or water bowls. Debi Romano, founder of the SaveKitty Foundation in New York, said she had sent 18 cats plucked from the streets to Tiger Ranch last year after talking to Bruno and hearing from fellow cat rescuers and from officials in shelter's community that cats were well cared for. I trusted their judgment, she said. I live and breathe for my feral cats. I thought I was sending them to a better life. The surviving cats are in an emergency medical center set up at the former Clarion County Humane Society about two hours away, where they are being treated for life-threatening conditions including respiratory infections, abscesses, dehydration and malnutrition. Between 30 and 35 cats have been euthanized, Nelson said. With no records, an unknown number of cats that could be tracked via implanted microchips, and rescue groups scattered around the East, the SPCA faces a post-Hurricane Katrina-like effort to reunite cats with those who tried to save them. Until they are surrendered by Bruno or she is convicted, the cats will have to remain at the Clarion County facility. Contact staff writer Amy Worden at
Cat Fancy
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Re: Cat Fancy
cool. I just got my current copy! L - Original Message - From: Sherry DeHaan To: Felvtalk Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:36 PM Subject: Cat Fancy Hey everyonecrashs Landing made it to the big time!!! Check out Mays issue of CatFancy and read about us!! It is good to have happy news for once. :) Sherry -- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
Belinda....interested?mThanking the Monkey need web help 3/9/08
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Re: Mr. Kennedy Please add to the CLS :(
I'm sorry Sherry. t Sherry DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am saddened to say that we lost sweet Mr. Kennedy yesterday.Dr. Jen said she got him purring for her and held him close as he fell asleep.I will miss his sweet half black half white face.He was an older boy of 8 years old and lived many years in another sanctuary that did not look after his needs as they should have.But at least we got to love him for a too little of a time.Thanks for you prayers. Sherry - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
Re: Bartonella
Hi Amy, Yes, many of us here have heard of hemobartonella, a blood parasite. It is very hard to diagnose, because one minute it will show up on a slide under the microscope, and the next minute, it won't. So anytime any of the kitties here are anemic, we recommend the 21 day course of doxy regardless of test results because felv+ cats are more prone to hemobart and it's hard to diagnose. I don't think it's contagious, but find it interesting that 2 of your 3 are positive. It's possible the 3rd one is as well, since the parasite is so elusive. I would talk about this with your vet. Please keep us posted as to the results of the other two cats. If it turns out that a high percentage of your cats have it, especially if all of them do, I will wonder not necessarily about contagiousness (which I thought that it wasn't), but what caused the hemobart and the conditions (ie. if fleas in certain parts of the country or certain areas, lakeland fleass vs. city fleas are more prone to carry the parasite). Did your vet say if fleas are the only way to get hemobart? It will be interesting to learn more about this. Be glad your kitties are so healthy. We see some here that are diagnosed in the late stages of anemia, and often it can be too late. Another thought: I don't think that hemobart is related to cat scratch fever. If I am wrong, someone please correct me. Thanks for taking such good care of your furbabies and good luck, Wendy Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has! ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ - Original Message From: Amy Weygandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:45:52 PM Subject: Bartonella Hi All, I really haven't been very active on this group over the past couple years so I'm not sure whether this has been discussed or not. I have a young child in my home and this year my vet recommended having my leuk positive cats tested for Bartonella. They are seen every 6 months for full blood work ups. I have 5 cats that have been here for several years and have never had fleas in our home but tested anyways. Three have been tested so far and two came back positive and are on medication for 21 days. The other two are being tested next week. Just wanted to mention this as my cats have always seemed healthy other than some mild gingivitis. Even my one cat with perfect teeth and gums tested positive. My vet said she just started testing for this recently and they are seeing tons of positive cases, almost 50% of those being tested are positive. Do any of you have vets that have recommended this testing? My vet is a dear friend and would never recommend something just to make money. She was just concerned because of our child and cat scratch fever. Wanted to make sure others are aware that this disease seems to be fairly common now as many of us take in rescues, strays, etc. That's how I got all mine and I'm guessing they have had this all along :( I feel bad I didn't test sooner. Amy Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
Re: Bartonella
Hi Amy, The answer I posted previously was solely for hemobartonella. I have no info. on just regular bartonella. If you get anymore info. on bartonella, it would be great if you could post it. As far as the archives go, you can go to www.felineleukemia.org and choose the archives and it will take you there. They are searchable. Thanks! :) Wendy Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has! ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ - Original Message From: Amy Weygandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:15:56 PM Subject: Re: Bartonella Just to clarify, my vet said Bartonella and Hemobart are not the same. I did the same thing and said something about Hemobart and she corrected me that they are positive for bartonella, not hemobart. I thought this was just a mail list, not a message board so I'm not sure how to check the archives. Are all these messages archived somewhere? Thanks Amy --- MaryChristine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check the archives, because it HAS been discussed--hemobart is one of those things that seems to really be regional. one of my vets says that in the past five years, a much higher than 50 percentage of cats in this area are testing positive. are the tests just done more often? are they better tests? or is it really more of a problem? she and i both feel it's probably all of the above i expect that you'll find a whole lot more info on the web now that when i first encountered it in a non-FeLV cat back in 2000; in fact, i think they've just changed its name--research published this week and noted in the winn feline foundation rss feed. if i forget to remember to send the link in the next day or so, someone please remind me! if anyone has access to medline or pubmed, and can get us .pdf copies of professional vet articles, there has been a lot of really neat stuff that's come out in the past months--not all of it applicable to FeLV, tho some of it is. i can get hard copies, but then i have to scan them, etc--and since it's a friend doing me the favor of using her account, well, i can't very well say, um, change the format, please. MC On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Amy Weygandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I really haven't been very active on this group over the past couple years so I'm not sure whether this has been discussed or not. I have a young child in my home and this year my vet recommended having my leuk positive cats tested for Bartonella. They are seen every 6 months for full blood work ups. I have 5 cats that have been here for several years and have never had fleas in our home but tested anyways. Three have been tested so far and two came back positive and are on medication for 21 days. The other two are being tested next week. Just wanted to mention this as my cats have always seemed healthy other than some mild gingivitis. Even my one cat with perfect teeth and gums tested positive. My vet said she just started testing for this recently and they are seeing tons of positive cases, almost 50% of those being tested are positive. Do any of you have vets that have recommended this testing? My vet is a dear friend and would never recommend something just to make money. She was just concerned because of our child and cat scratch fever. Wanted to make sure others are aware that this disease seems to be fairly common now as many of us take in rescues, strays, etc. That's how I got all mine and I'm guessing they have had this all along :( I feel bad I didn't test sooner. Amy Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- Spay Neuter Your Neighbors! Maybe That'll Make The Difference MaryChristine AIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCats MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 289856892 Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
Re: Junior
Sally, I am so sorry to hear about Junior. He's been with us here for so long now it seems. You have been so vigilant in caring for his every need, and I hope you will find comfort to fill the void that's been created when Junior passed over the Rainbow Bridge. He was a very lucky kitty! Prayers going out for strength and peace for you and your sister. :) Wendy Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has! ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ - Original Message From: Sally Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 7:12:42 AM Subject: Junior Junior is having much difficulty breathing. I am taking him into his original vet meaning more money, but they are the only hospital available now. I gave him a prenisone. His lungs sound horrible. I feel I ma saying goodbye. Please pray for him. Sally -- Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty, Little Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and Spike Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to sign up. http://www.k6az.com/ki4spk/index.php?sid=c57c00cf5804ef13853ed6e77a68eed3 Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
