Re: Loki Advice: fleas, throwing up

2005-03-02 Thread Nina
Steve, I agree with you, the comb sounds like the right solution for you guys.  I think you are absolutely right about not using toxins.  If there is an alternative that will work, it makes perfect sense to take the gentlest route.  Isn't it strange how the "runts" sometimes turn out to be th

RE: Loki Advice: fleas, throwing up

2005-03-02 Thread Steve Williams
Hi Nina,   When Loki and crew were found about 10 days old, he--the runt--especially was covered with fleas.  My niece, Alisha, almost threw-up after seeing him absolutely covered with horrid monsters.  They did use some toxic treatment to fix the problem.  Loki was almost completely despon

Re: OT: Animal Communication Chat on friday

2005-03-02 Thread TenHouseCats
marta's book is "Learning Their Language" go to http://chat.pethobbyist.com/login.php?room_name=Auditorium+-+Special+Events (just highlight the whole string and paste it into your address bar--if you have the full schedule i gave the link for, you can just click on the link under the chat descrpt

Re: OT: Animal Communication Chat on friday

2005-03-02 Thread Skf95111
Dear Mary Christine: Yes, I do know Marta. She's genuine. She lives in the Sacramento area, I believe, and has a book that came out not too long ago, but I don't remember the title offhand. A friend of mine went to one of her seminars and got the book and Marta autographed it for her. Mart

Re: outdoor arrangments (was:Tip is Gone)

2005-03-02 Thread BONNIE J KALMBACH
Great horned owls have been known to kill and eat cats too. We have a lot of them hoo-hooing in our neighborhood at night. Bonnie - Original Message - From: Belinda Sauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 9:37 pm Subject: Re: outdoor arrangments (was:Tip is Gone) >

Re: outdoor arrangments (was:Tip is Gone)

2005-03-02 Thread Belinda Sauro
I decided against something like that because we have hawks flying overhead, and I didn't want to take a chance they would get one of the cats. -- Belinda Happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties ... http://www.bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adop

Re: Effie has her angel's wings

2005-03-02 Thread Terri Brown
Oh, Del -- I'm so sorry for you losses.  Big hugs to you.   Goodnight, sweet Effie...   =^..^= Terri, Salome', Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, and 5 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth and Alec =^..^=   Furkid Photos! http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7sgqa/My FeLV Si

Re: Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp

2005-03-02 Thread Terri Brown
ï Ditto...   =^..^= Terri, Salome', Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, and 5 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth and Alec =^..^=   Furkid Photos! http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7sgqa/My FeLV Site: http://pages.ivillage.com/ruthiegirl1/MyFeLVinformationSite/My Personal Pag

Effie has her angel's wings

2005-03-02 Thread Del Daniels
Effie left us this morning and my friend, Liz, who passed away last week, is taking care of her in heaven.  The pain from the growing mass against her spine took away her quality of life.  It was awfully hard.  It IS hard.  You understand, we continue to look at their favorite places and t

OT: Animal Communication Chat on friday

2005-03-02 Thread TenHouseCats
i've been so focused on the cat/rescue chats this week that i didn't pay much attention to the FULL schedule--there's gonna be an Animal Communication chat on Friday at 10pm, with Marta Williams. i don't know of her--sally, do you? here's the full schedule again: http://www.pethobbyist.com/ChatWee

Re: Michelle, How's Lucy?

2005-03-02 Thread Lernermichelle
Thanks for asking, Nina.  I have not gotten her re-xrayed yet to see if it has shrunk. She is supposed to be xrayed this week but I have not taken her in yet and may wait until Monday. She still urinates frequently and has blood in her urine, but it does seem to me to be less blood the last

Re: outdoor arrangments (was:Tip is Gone)

2005-03-02 Thread Lernermichelle
I don't know if anyone else has suggested this, as I was not following the thread closely, but I use a product called Cat Fence-In.  It's netting and brackets that attach to the top of a fence and make it so cats can not climb out (the netting just in and up at an angle, so if they try to cli

Re: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Barbara Lowe
Title: Message forgive me if this was suggested already-been rather scatterbrained lately-but did you search for other cat rescues in your area through the www.petfinder.org website? the rescues might know someone(s) who could help you even if they dont' rescue ferals.  barbara - Ori

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Title: Message I know I think of it often (about winning a lottery) – but usually, before I can spend $1 on the lottery ticket, I decide that I prefer to spend on cat food instead – so I might never be a millionaire unfortunately. J   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Barbara Lowe
Title: Message i have only 7 cats (down from 9 )and 1 dog (down from 2). and people regard me the same way--especially my family members. screw 'em. I thank god I'm hardwired to respect animal life and enjoy their companionship. You are an angel to risk your job for these ferals. did you try

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Title: Message I appreciate you thinking of me that way as I am usually perceived as a nut case (seriously) by majority of population.   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MacKenzie, Kerry N. Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:31 PM

Re: Question for Belinda

2005-03-02 Thread Belinda Sauro
The only other groups I'm familar with in the area (Seattle are feral TNR groups). -- Belinda Happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties ... http://www.bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adopt.bemikitties.com FeLV Candle Light Service http://www.bemikitties

Re: Question for Belinda

2005-03-02 Thread Belinda Sauro
Hi Terri, I wish I did, but I don't know of any in my area, in fact when the lady across the street left and left her 3 cats behind I took them to Purrfect Pals in your area, that and a rescue in Olympia which I don't know if they are even still in existence. Those are the two in my area a

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message You're an angel, Hideyo. You really are. Kerry. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hideyo YamamotoSent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:17 PMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: RE: Feral cat book He is about 7 or 8 year

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
He is about 7 or 8 years old – We got him from two little boys whose mother was an alcoholic apparently, trying to exchange Oreo for some alcohols for their mother – of course, we did not exchange him with alcohols – instead we just took him in – he got along so well with our first dog, Jo

Question for Belinda

2005-03-02 Thread TatorBunz
Belinda, Your south of Seattle, right? Puyallup, Milton, Sumner area right? Anyway, do you know of a rescue that takes Felv kitties? In those parts actually south of Seattle/Tacoma or east. I got a call from a rescue today that is looking for a rescue or an individual that takes Felv kitties. I'm

Re: outdoor arrangments (was:Tip is Gone)

2005-03-02 Thread Belinda Sauro
I have only grass in the enclosure and do not use any kind of fertilizers or anything in that area. Of course my kids do eat the grass and some will spit it back up some won't but nobody has ever gotten sick from the grass. I don't have any flowers or plants in the house because I would al

Re: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Brenda K. Smith
Joan     I just went there and a person needs to view the Photo Gallery page and/or The Rainbow Bridge page for it to count for a donation.  One visit per day.  I visited both and will do so every day that I can. -- Brenda. http://www.whiskersandwicks.com http://www

Re: Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp

2005-03-02 Thread Joan Doljan
Me too!Cherie A Gabbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: done, and forwarded...anything we can do to help, we have to do [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp Dear Committee Members:We the undersigned are writing to y

Michelle, How's Lucy?

2005-03-02 Thread Nina
Michelle, How is Lucy doing? My dad has had some health problems this last week (he's going to be okay), and it's taken me away from the list. I take it she doesn't need surgery? Nina

Re: Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp

2005-03-02 Thread Cherie A Gabbert
done, and forwarded...anything we can do to help, we have to do [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp Dear Committee Members:We the undersigned are writing to you asking for the reprinting and continued printing o

Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp

2005-03-02 Thread TatorBunz
Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp Petition to REISSUE SPAY & NEUTER Animal Stamp Dear Committee Members:We the undersigned are writing to you asking for the reprinting and continued printing of the sold-out Spay/Neuter stamps, which feature pictures of Samantha the shelter cat and Ki

Re: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Nina
Hideyo, Of course I'm praying for Oreo!  I know how anxious you must be.  How old is he/she?  It's so hard when you have so many.  I was just musing this morning about how much easier it would be to care for everyone, if they were all healthy.  You better not lose that job of yours!  I'm prayin

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message he sounds a sweetheart! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hideyo YamamotoSent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:20 PMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: RE: Feral cat book Thank you, Kerry!  I just used to love when he r

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Title: Message Thank you, Kerry!  I just used to love when he runs – he actually hops like a little rabbit and looks so cute!   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MacKenzie, Kerry N. Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:11 PM To: felvt

RE: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Doljan, Joan
Title: Message Thank you! -Original Message-From: Cherie A Gabbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:15 PMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: Re: O.T. - Help for my shelter My gosh, I want to care for them all, just pulls at heart strings I

Re: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Cherie A Gabbert
My gosh, I want to care for them all, just pulls at heart strings I will do all I can."Doljan, Joan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   A friend who works with the shelter I work with, set up this web page.  Each click, every day gives a small donation to the shelter.  If you are interested, please

Re: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Joan Doljan
Thank you!Barbara Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: put it on my list too. and what a big heart you have to love all those kitties! barbara - Original Message - From: MacKenzie, Kerry N. To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: RE: O.T. - Help f

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message Sending healing vibes for Oreo, Hideyo.I hope the little soul is soon running around again. (It must be a comfort that he has the same surgeon as JoJo.) Love & hugs, Kerry -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hideyo Yama

RE: Off topic - rescuing feral

2005-03-02 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Thank you, Sally. Well, it's probably sort of my fault - if I did everything carefully, this wouldn't be an issue - They did not want me to feed cats anymore because they were peeing on the furniture that we NO LONGER NEEDED and therefore BEING Abandoned in the trailers in the parking lot. When

Re: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Skf95111
Hey Nina... I don't call my rescue efforts Fantastic, Friendly, Formerly Feral Felines for no reason. I hope I can borrow the book after you get through reading it! Thanks for mentioning it Hideyo. Sally in San Jose

RE: Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
Nina, sorry, I have not shipped Surphur to you yet, I have it in my hand and have not forgotten!!.  How is Gypsy? My little Shitsu dog, Oreo had a disc injury and started losing control of hind legs, I was very worried because my other dog, JoJo had a similar injury and he became paralyze

Feral cat book

2005-03-02 Thread Nina
Thanks Hideyo, I just ordered the book from Amazon.  I love the ferals too! Nina Hideyo Yamamoto wrote: Every feral cat story I hear, I just can’t stop crying – there is a book called “Livings in shadows”  - it’s a book about how to take care of feral cats – the tit

Re: Off topic - rescuing feral

2005-03-02 Thread Skf95111
Dear Hideyo: You really have yourself a can of worms there, don't you? I have a friend here in San Jose who is faced with a similar problem of feral cats proliferating around the company she works for...fortunately a pack of marauding dogs is not also part of the problem. Because of your fea

Re: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Barbara Lowe
Title: Message put it on my list too. and what a big heart you have to love all those kitties! barbara - Original Message - From: MacKenzie, Kerry N. To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: RE: O.T. - Help for my shelter

RE: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Doljan, Joan
Title: Message You just need to go to the site.     -Original Message-From: MacKenzie, Kerry N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:21 PMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: RE: O.T. - Help for my shelter Done, Joan. (By the way, it says you j

RE: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Doljan, Joan
Title: Message Thank you! -Original Message-From: MacKenzie, Kerry N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:21 PMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: RE: O.T. - Help for my shelter Done, Joan. (By the way, it says you just "view", you don't cl

Re: Loki Advice: fleas, throwing up

2005-03-02 Thread Nina
Steve, I've been away from the computer for a while, so this may no longer be timely.  When I found my FeLV bottle babies (didn't know it at the time), they were just over 2 weeks old.  They were so infested with fleas that they were bloody from them.  At that very tender age I used just a tiny

RE: O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Message Done, Joan. (By the way, it says you just "view", you don't click, so I guess it's different from other sites that do require a "click"? They'll still get the donation?) Will put it on my "go-to-every-day" list. Kerry -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

O.T. - Help for my shelter

2005-03-02 Thread Doljan, Joan
Title: Message Hi,   A friend who works with the shelter I work with, set up this web page.  Each click, every day gives a small donation to the shelter.  If you are interested, please have a look and click every day. Please feel free to pass this on.   Thanks,   Joan -Original Message--

Re: outdoor arrangments (was:Tip is Gone)

2005-03-02 Thread BONNIE J KALMBACH
Well, I love my screened porch and so do my kitties and dogs. One thing I would worry about in an outdoor enclosure that allows access to the lawn is the possibility of them eating some toxic plants. My orange girl Rosalie did just that last summer and fortunately got better. Actually I had her

Re: Feral Issues

2005-03-02 Thread tamara stickler
Wow, that really surprises me!  When I went to college, I was alway "rescuing" strays and the like and while we were aloud to bring pets to some class, some we weren't so I could leave the dog or whatever with just about anyone, esp. the student guards.  We had a real community rescue thing going o

Re: Feral Issues

2005-03-02 Thread Julie Johnson
Hey Tamara,   Yes, I work at a University and you'd be amazed at how little the students seem to care.  It's really disturbing.   Julie tamara stickler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Julie,   You said "campus" ...do you work on a college campus?  If so you would prob. find many willing helpers amongst

Re: Feral Issues

2005-03-02 Thread tamara stickler
Julie,   You said "campus" ...do you work on a college campus?  If so you would prob. find many willing helpers amongst the live-in students...plus they are there to man the traps.   (course you prob. already thought of this...)Julie Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Everyone,   Hideyo, I'm so

Re: Re Sheila's post

2005-03-02 Thread Melbeach
Title: Re Sheila's post Looks like a good idea. I'd want to see one in person though. Could be kind of flimsy. And you know how cats are about being confined. If there's only one way in and out, they don't like it. There's always gotta be an escape route.   -Melbeach   - Original Messa

Re: New FeLV+ Cat, transfusion yesterday. Please see blood results.

2005-03-02 Thread Melbeach
Thanks Carla. It sure is a shame that the feline version of Epogen never made it to production. It sounds like they had alot of success with it in trials. Do you have the link for the anemia group you mentioned? -Melbeach - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesda

Re Sheila's post

2005-03-02 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: Re Sheila's post http://www.kittywalksystems.com/kisybu.htm Hi all I missed the beginning of this dialogue. Anyone ever used any of these kittywalks? They look kinda claustrophobic (as well as expensive). What d'you think? I live in a condo and have a very small porch -- probably 6

RE: V-B 12 injection

2005-03-02 Thread carlas
The B-12 I had was about that color. Date sent: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:46:01 -0700 From: "Hideyo Yamamoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Copies to: Subject:RE: V-B 12 injection Send reply to: felvtalk@felineleukemi

Feral Issues

2005-03-02 Thread Julie Johnson
Hi Everyone,   Hideyo, I'm sorry that you have to deal with the stress of trying to help these cats and keep them safe from the dogs, all the while worrying that it could cost your job.   I am working on trapping and relocating a feral colony because there are dangers to the cats from employees on

Re: Tip is Gone

2005-03-02 Thread Cherie A Gabbert
I love it...I am now thinking of way to incorporate that in my backyard..This is wonderful for them ;-))[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/27/2005 10:27:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.bemikitties.com/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi?mode=view&album=/Kitty-Pl