Re: OT:Adoption Gift Bags..I've been doing this for yrs on myadoptions...Free

2006-06-11 Thread Rachel Martineau
We have been doing this for a few years also and I love these people! The bags are big enough to fit a few of our brochures and a sample bag of food in too. We just received another shipment about a week ago. Sadly, not the BEST of the BEST, but still so generous I will never complain. This

Re: test results

2006-06-05 Thread Rachel Martineau
I've mixed it with gruel and dosed it with a syringe in the batch of FeLV kittens I have in rescue right now. Works like a charm. I probably won't bother even trying to mix with wet food and offer it to them free choice as I hate the idea of them refusing and seeing it go to waste. Good luck!

Re: Free microchip readers

2006-05-27 Thread Rachel Martineau
Thanks for this information Gary! We could definitely use another scanner for the mobile TNR program we help run. ~ Rachel Operation Foster Felixwww.operationfosterfelix.orgSharing Our Hearts, Homes Litter-boxes If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other.

Re: Bella's Visit with a New Vet - (vaccination)

2006-05-15 Thread Rachel Martineau
There aren't actually two different vaccines, just different protocols. Some states require annual vaccinations, some require only every 3 years. Some studies have shown that the rabies vaccines may have up to a 7 year immunization value. Scary to think how over-vaccinated some pets are actually

Re: Rachel's ramble

2006-05-14 Thread Rachel Martineau
Awww THANK YOU Nina! I pray the feral Momma (she's a Persian mix BTW) is negative. If she's positive, I'll have a really hard time placing her. I don't know of any feral positive colonies to put her in and she's old (at least 6-7) so rehab would be so time intensive, something I don't have the

Re: URGENT-Bert needs HELP!!

2006-05-13 Thread Rachel Martineau
I'm in Dayton, OH. Two of the adults are asymptomatic and healthy as can be. One was a light positive so I'm praying that a retest will be negative. I originally pulled two adults, one who is still with me and recovering from a ton of infections and slowing improving. Sadly the other little guy

Re: Lysine question

2006-05-13 Thread Rachel Martineau
I'm just speaking from my personal recent experience and what I was told by my holistic MD (human doc who I see for thyroid). I don't have a holistic vet in my area that I go to, so I asked her. The first FeLV+ rescue I took in recently was doing really poorly on the topical and oral

Re: Bailey has gone home

2006-05-07 Thread Rachel Martineau
Belinda, My thoughts are with you. The pain you feel we all have felt or will; but the legacy you have created because of Bailey is absolutely unique, and will endure; and every purrful snuggle made possible by your work is a testament to the life and the spirit of one remarkable cat. His passing

Re: mixing

2006-05-02 Thread Rachel Martineau
I've had good luck with keeping them my semi-ferals dosed up with Rescue Remedy for a week or so when introducing them into my foster communities under stress. It's cheaper than Feliway in the quantities I use it in. Good luck to you sweetie! On 5/2/06, Dudes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you

Advice for Conjunctivitis Remedy?

2006-05-01 Thread Rachel Martineau
I have the sweetest little FeLV+ lion in foster right now. Peanut came to me from a hoarder situation in terrible shape with another FeLV+ guy who we lost the same day to a ruptured bladder. He has improved a lot, but still has this nasty herpes conjunctivitis that just will not clear up! He's

Re: Advice for Conjunctivitis Remedy?

2006-05-01 Thread Rachel Martineau
I've been giving him L-Lysine 500 mg for 3 weeks. I'll try bumping that up to 1000 mg and see how he does. I've never tried the Felivite 2, so I'll give that a try too. Thanks forall the suggestions and details Jenn! On 5/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Greek sponsor cat (

Re: Advice for Conjunctivitis Remedy?

2006-05-01 Thread Rachel Martineau
Really? I didn't realize you could give it directly in the eye. Hmmm, definitely something I'm going to suggest to the vet if upping the Lysine and adding Felivite don't show some improvement soon. Thanks Karen! On 5/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, I used the human

Re: positive

2006-04-21 Thread Rachel Martineau
Oh Carrie...stop beating yourself up! The fact is, you are a kind soul doing the best you can! Truth be told, NO test, including the IFA is 100% accurate. Truth be told, I have had POSITIVES go NEGATIVE in my care. Truth be told, I am past the point of putting too much stock in these darn