Anyone knows a better way to give medications (pills) to a cat?
The vet can sell you a pill popper - a little device that helps some
people get those pills
down them.
What I would do is to grind up the pills and mix with meat based human
baby food and a little
water. Then use a syringe,
A funny story- my husband suddenly decided that he would feed a raw diet
to the cats
and invested a lot of money in meat and supplements according to a good
recipe he found.
Not one cat out of about 12 would touch it. Turns out he had purchased (a
big!) bottle of lemon-flavored
fish oil to
One of my positives started smelling bad and I realized that he had a
serious red line on his gums
near the teeth. The vet said that the gum infection was so bad, his
little front teeth would probably
fall out. Gum infection is quite often seen in positives. Alot of the
infection cleared up
if anyone has another really good sanctuary for FIV cats,
In my opinion, only aggressive FIV+ cats need to be quarantined or go into
a sanctuary.
I successfully placed 2 sweet non-violent FIV+ cats in good adoptive homes
last year. Many people
mix them with their other cats.
I'd prefer to see
I just found out that the Wilderness type of Blue Buffalo dry cat food has
100 more per cup than their regular cat food.
It is a high protein low carb food. Depending on the age of the cat, that
might be a good choice instead of or along
with kitten food for gaining weight.
I just heard about the PUREVAX FELV vaccine. This is administered with a
transdermal technology
that does not result in possible injection site sarcomas.
Has anyone experience with this or heard anything especially with respect
to the efficacy of it compared to the traditional one?
Trissa in
Interferon is a protein. It is dried into a powder which should be able
to be frozen with
no problem. But when proteins are dissolved into a liquid solution,
freezing can be tricky.
As a scientist working with a variety of proteins, I can tell you that
many proteins will start
to break down
My 2 FeLV+ cats lived to ages 22 and 16. Stripes, the 16 year old, was
sick
on and off his entire life. Squeaky was never sick until his last 3 weeks
on
earth.
Laurie
Laurie,
With that wonderful statement, can you tell me how you cared for them -
both the sick
one and the well one?
I would
I think the conventional wisdom is that if the test is negative, it is
reliable. If it is positive,
it has to be redone in 3 months to get a final answer.
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My experience has been that the kittens will get the URI and it can be a
killer.
I would personally get the mom on an antibiotic right away and get some
antibiotic that can
be given to the kittens from birth. Just the tiniest amount can save
kittens.
It is by far the best idea to
If the mom is eating and caring for the kittens, they can relax some but
I'd like to
emphasize that they should take the whole litter to the vet at the first
sign that there
is anything wrong with the kittens. Or get some antibiotic like clavamox
to have
on hand if possible. Lysine is good.
I can't remember how old you said that Grr is but I foster lots of very
thin cats for the local shelter.
At first I used canned kitten food alot for extra calories but with
respect to an older (+10 years) cat,
my vet said that the high protein content in kitten food was not good for
an older
I bought the vaccine and my sister-in-law was able to vaccinate my young
negatives for much much
less than I would have to pay at the vet.
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Anita,
Great websites with lots of information.
Thanks for posting them!
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I haven't ever heard of any research that indicates what could happen if
you vaccinate an FELV+ cat for FELV.
Most people seem to assume that it would make no difference to the course
of the FELV disease but
I don't think that is based on real information.
I thought the reason vets almost
I have/had 4 FELV+ kittens.
I was fostering large numbers of kittens and URI cats from the city
shelter but all tested negative before coming home
with me or after being in isolation, before mixing with negative cats.
As far as I can guess, a pregnant Himi mom that tested negative after
giving
My vet opthamologist here in Philly, Dr. Glickstein, told me that he was
aware of only one
controlled study on the effects of L-lysine on herpes. He said that the
study showed that
L-lysine did keep cats from getting their first herpes infection but that
it had absolutely no
effect on
In 2008, a large private no-kill rescue in western PA was raided and shut
down for bad conditions.
I can't remember the name of it - but maybe it was Tiger Ranch. There
were plenty of news articles on it.
Why don't you check into who the authorities were in that case and maybe
that can give
Or in other words, how old does a kitten have to be before you
can believe that a negative test means the kitten is negative?
And since you all are the experts, does anyone have any reliable
info on how long it takes after exposure before a cat or kitten would
test positive on a combo snap test?
I have been fostering for a big city shelter and although I almost
always tested new cats
when they came to me and kittens before they were introduced into the
general herd, I ended
up this year with 4 FELV+ kittens less than 1 year old. Three of these
tested negative when they
came to me and
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