[Felvtalk] Multi Cat House Protocol
Hello - For those of you with multi-cat households, I was wondering what your vet has recommended in terms of re-testing for FELV in the negative cat. I have 1 positive and 1 negative that have been living together for over a year now. I have been advised to re-test the negative cat once a year for FELV and give the negative cat the FELV combo shot once a year. Thank you ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
[Felvtalk] Mycoplasma
I did a little research on the board for mycoplasma and I noticed that it does seem to be prevalent (as far as i can see from the mailing list) in felv+ cats. My vet suggested I have my felv+ kitty tested. For those of you that have experience with Mycoplasma, can you tell me what symptoms your kitties had? My felv+ cat is a 1 1/2 years old and once a month (Almost exactly every month around the 20th or 21st) he has a bad day. He goes about 12 hours doesn't want to eat, drink, lethargic, runs a slight temperature. Sometimes he will puke, but just a little bit. After those 12 hours he is back to his normal self. These symptoms started pretty much right after I got him... and I thought this was the norm for a felv+ catnot another disease. Thanks everyone for your help. ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] OT:help w/post traumatic stress in cat?
Haven't heard that one before, thanks Christinane --- On Mon, 12/7/09, Chris ti...@mindspring.com wrote: From: Chris ti...@mindspring.com Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] OT:help w/post traumatic stress in cat? To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 6:01 PM Don't know if it's the same thing-but my Little Boy has these episodes when he's sound asleep where he's start twiching and bolts in the air usually throwing himself off the bed or chair or whatever he's on. He's sound asleep when it happens poor thing is all perplexed when he suddenly wakes up on the floor or wherever he landed. I took him to my vet a neurologist but nobody seems to be able to tell me what it is. Could be mild seizures-he's always been a bit clutzy when I brought him in, my vet thought he clutzyness might have been related to his mother maybe having had distemper. The signs were real weak so no special care needed. Sometimes, Little Boy scares me cause he really likes to get up high I worry about him hurting himself when he falls. Christiane Biagi -Original Message- From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of tamara stickler Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:38 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: [Felvtalk] OT:help w/post traumatic stress in cat? Hello all, This is off-topic, and for that I apologize, but I figured with all the cat care-giving/rescuing experience of the people on this list, perhaps someone would have an answer for me. I took in stray tabby about 3 years ago. Had him neutered and vetted. He had/has many issues including being prone to kidney crystals and infections -which I think we have under control at the moment w/ cranberry powder additive to his food. He used to be very aggressive towards other cats (something for which my other cat still hasn't completely forgiven him for) and he truly believes himself to be a dog. He has no fear at ALL of people, cats or canines, -fetches toys, heels, comes when called and will go into his crate if you just mention it...(something even my DOG REFUSES to do!). But..there is one major obstacle to completely incorporating him into the household: he has night terrors. Because of his past aggression, he's separated in his own room whenever I'm not home at night, but I have been trying to get to the point where he can be allowed to sleep with us. Unfortunately, he has incredible nightmares where he BOLTS INTO THE AIR (we're talking sometimes 2-3 feet HIGH) from a dead sleep and FLEES until he hits something - usually a wall or piece of furniture- hard enough to wake him up. Then he sits all hunched up and blinking for a few minutes. If I go to him he immediately starts to purr and rolls over for a belly rub - only after head-butting me a few dozen times. I've had him to the vet thinking he was having painful spasms or something. All she could find were old injuries that looked like a car accident may have hit him in the hip area (all healed - he moves fine) and what appear to be 3 bebes still lodged in the back of his neck and shoulder area. She doesn't think they would be the cause of pain now...but both injuries tell something of the first year or two of his life. I've tried feline pheromones ...he still has the episodes. As much as I hate putting him in a room by himself at night, while the cat and dog and I share a bedwhen he freaks out at night- it sets off a chain reaction of the other cat going all hissy-spazzy and the dog barking and chasing one or both around the condo until he fully wakes up and calms down (I'm surprised my neighbors haven't complained yet!). (Not to mentionI've gotten kicked in the eye and face time and again as one or more of the animals flee from the shock of Mica's night terrors. Has anyone EVER experienced something like this that's on-going? Does anyone have ANY suggestions other than time? (He's been an indoor only cat for 3 years nowand while the dreams do seem to be getting lessat the current rate- he'll have to live well into his thirties until they are gone...-I'm not certain I could survive that! ;-) Thanks, Tamara, Tobias (yorkie), Coebeio (calico), Micatullyvhim (grey tabby) ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] OT:help w/post traumatic stress in cat?
I'm with antianxiety meds too. It might also help with his aggression with your other cat. I have 2 on prozac for peeing issues. One of them also challenges my alpha cat. Putting him on prozac really just took the edge off of him. He still plays with his buddy cats, but he has stopped spraying and he doesn't go after my alpha nearly as often. Merlin From: Susan Hoffman susan_hoff...@yahoo.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org; Mari meko...@mycomhouston.com; tlstick...@yahoo.com Sent: Mon, December 7, 2009 11:50:58 AM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] OT:help w/post traumatic stress in cat? If the pheremones don't work then talk to your vet about antianxiety meds, either prozac or elavil, at least for awhile till he begins to get over whatever is in his past. (I had one cat on prozac for years. It made all the difference in the world.) --- On Mon, 12/7/09, Barb Moermond mr_mok...@yahoo.com wrote: ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] PTSD
We had great luck calming PTSD-type anxiety in our cat Patches with small daily doses of Benadry. The vet told us the amount to give (I think it was 1/6 of a pill twice a day?) but she did not like getting pilled, which added to her stress, so we got the vet to call in a prescription to a compounding pharmacy for a transdermal dosing of it-- they put it into tubes and we rubbed one unit into the skin of the inside of her ear twice a day. We used it for about 6 years. It was like night and day. Before, she licked her stomach bald, went after all the other cats, and ran around crying like someone was after her (no one was). With the benadryl she was a happy, normal cat and all her stomach fur grew in. If we ever forgot a dose, she started reverting to anxious behaviors. It did not make her drowsy-- she played all the time and was quite perky and cheerful. I would recommend trying this over prozac or elevil any day. Do not buy benadryl cream to do this with-- it's totally different. you need to either give the correct dosing (ask your vet) of oral benadryl in pill form, or get oral benadryl compounded into a transdermal cream. Michelle L. ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
[Felvtalk] Fwd: RE: feral cats FW: Ask PETA a Question Form
got an answer from PETA, here it is. dorlis Subject: RE: feral cats FW: Ask PETA a Question Form Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:56:32 -0500 From: Karen Dickerson kar...@petaf.org To: dlg...@windstream.net Dear Dorlis, Thank you for contacting PETA. We appreciate the opportunity to address your returns. We at PETA do not regard euthanasia as a solution to overpopulation but rather as a tragic necessity given the present crisis. We know from our experience with helping homeless animals that there is such a thing as a fate worse than death. We have seen animals suffering from injury and disease with no veterinary care, corpses of animals who have been left to starve, and the remains of cats who have been used as bait in dog-fighting rings. Every winter, we see dogs shivering and trying to curl themselves into the tiniest balls to keep warm; every summer, we see them with their tongues dragging, panting in a desperate effort to lower their body temperatures, suffering from excessive heat and insufficient water supplies. Our Community Animal Project (CAP) rescues homeless animals from environmental dangers, as well as from cruel humans. They crawl through sewers, poke through junkyards, climb trees, and dodge traffic in order to reach animals in danger. During floods and storms, they are out saving lives at all hours. They also rescue animal companions from abusive homes, often encountering resistance from obstructive landlords and angry guardians as they try to coax terrified, abandoned, and neglected animals to safety. Our agents travel to the worst neighborhoods to deliver food, doghouses, and bedding to pit bulls who have never known a kind word or touch, dogs who―assuming that CAP members, like all the other humans they have known, have come to do them harm―greet them with snapping jaws in defense of the tiny patches of muddy earth that they call home. We push to have animal abusers prosecuted and their animal victims removed from their custody, but sometimes the best we can do is administer the only true solution to the overpopulation crisis: spaying and neutering as many animals as we can so as to prevent future litters of vulnerable, unwanted animals. Sterilization is the best way to lessen animal suffering―and we know this because we have seen what happens to the offspring of intact animal companions. PETA does not operate a shelter, but we do take in the animals nobody wants―feral cat colonies descended from abandoned, unaltered cat companions, now wild and often infected with deadly, ravaging diseases like feline AIDS and leukemia; stray dogs so disfigured by mange that they are almost no longer recognizable as canines; litters of parvo-infected puppies, plagued with diarrhea and vomiting, literally dehydrating to death; and backyard dogs who have known only chains, beatings, and neglect and have gone mad because of it. Some of the animals we take in are lost companions with loving families who miss them; we are always happy to return such animals to their homes. We have also managed to catch and return some highly elusive animals other agencies had given up on. While some of the healthy, adoptable homeless animals we rescue are fostered in homes (often our own) or taken directly to local shelters to await adoption, the reality is that thousands of animals are euthanized every day across America for lack of good homes. To learn more, visit http://www.HelpingAnimals.com/f-nc.asp and http://www.HelpingAnimals.com/ga_spay.asp. Although feral cats are fearful of humans, they are still domesticated and ill-equipped to survive on their own. Feral cats do not die of old age. They are poisoned, shot, and tortured by cruel people; they are hit by cars and attacked by other animals; and they die of exposure, starvation, and highly contagious fatal diseases, such as rabies, feline AIDS, feline leukemia, and feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). Even highly treatable conditions can be deadly for cats who cannot be handled and regularly taken to a veterinarian. Minor cuts or puncture wounds can turn into raging infections and abscesses. Cats with untreated upper respiratory infections may not be able to see and breathe properly, or at all, on account of the mucus obstructing their eyes and noses. Ferals driven crazy by the pain and itching of ear mites and accompanying infections often scratch their ears bloody. Many die of blood loss or anemia caused by worms and fleas. Untreated urinary tract infections, which frequently lead to blockage in male cats, cause extremely painful, lingering deaths. To learn more, please see: * http://www.HelpingAnimals.com/a-feral.html * http://PETALiterature.com/WEL233.pdf * http://www.HelpingAnimals.com/Factsheet/files/FactsheetDisplay.asp?ID=120 The kindest thing that you can
