Re: Pookie
Thanks for that Tonya. After reading yr email I decided to remove the dry food bowl in "his" room. (He didn't eat it much apparently before he came so he won't miss it and it would not be good if he decided he preferred it). I was a little worried that he wasn't very active last 24 hours but he seems fine today! He's a sweetheart---appears totally untroubled by the hostility around him, just stands his ground and stares back. And, he certainly seems to be drinking plenty. His subQs are going better (for me) too. It can't be much fun for him. Kerry - Original Message - From: catatonya To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Pookie Kerry, You've been here a while and probably read this before.. but with my crf cat I gave him tons of wet food. The more you water you can get in the better. Also, mine loved to play in the water and would therefore lick it off his paws and drink more that way. I would sometimes leave a sink dripping and he would sit in it and play with and drink the water. One of those water fountains for cats helps with that too. I know this doesn't address weight gain specifically, but if Pookly likes wet food better that will cause weight gain by eating more, plus be good for the kidneys. tonya "MacKenzie, Kerry N." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julie, thank you so much for your reply---I've felt I'm working in the dark here as the medical records are so badly handwritten (and brief) and I have no idea how to decode his test result nos (apart from the dreaded HCT of course). They instructed Wellness for him, which I'm pleased about and he def seems to like it. I tried to weigh him on my kitchen scales last night but non possible! I wdn't be surprised if he only weighed 4 lb. He's very good re the subQ--I make sure to warm the water first. I SO want to help him--he is so bony and light (but otherwise seems fine--he's very curious, and, being deaf, is able to blithely ignore the growls of his new"buddies". I keep him safe in my bedroom on his own while I'm at work---I don't trust one of my other rascals in particular
Hideyo: praying for my Ginger
Dear Hideyo I haven't been posting much recently (work pressure) but please know I'm sending healing vibes for your Ginger---she and you are in my thoughts constantly. much love and hugs to you, Ginger and all your furballs, Kerry - Original Message - From: maimaipg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 11:51 PM Subject: Re: praying for my Ginger I may have posted this but a low dose of valium helped Ebony eat. - Original Message - From: Belinda Sauro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:49 PM Subject: Re: praying for my Ginger Vitamin B will aslo get some cats eating. -- 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.com/cls HostDesign4U.com (affordable hosting web design) http://HostDesign4U.com --- BMK Designs (non-profit web sites) http://bmk.bemikitties.com
Re: OT: you guys seen these checks?
I get Humane Society checks through Affinity Products (800-327-7123). A portion of my check order goes to HS charity. There are 4 different dog and cat pictures with the messages, Pets are for Life, Spay or Neuter Your Pets, Adopt Your Next Best Friend, and ID Tags - A Pet's Ticket Home. N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surfing to order checks online... and I found these. With so many of us with furangels... I thought some of you may appreciate them as much as I did. http://www.imagechecks.com/shop/product.aspx?ProductID=ICMPCHK(Base)CategoryName=SubcategoryName=CKSTD-IC(Base)CategoryCode= Not sure if they are the ones I'm going to get yet, but they are one of the ones I am looking at seriously. Jenn http://ucat.us http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Adopt a cat from UCAT rescue: http://ucat.us/adopt.html Adopt a FIV+ cat: http://ucat.us/AWrescue/FIV/ http://ucat.us/FIVadopt.html Adopt a FELV+ cat: http://ucat.us/FELVadopt.html "Saving one animal won't make a difference in the world, but it will make a world of difference for that one animal." ~~~ I collect KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil, a 3 yr old special needs cat who must live on a liquid diet for the rest of his life. Bazil's caretaker collects labels and sends them to KMR, where they add up until she earns a free can of formula! PLEASE save your KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil! If you use KMR, even just one can, please ask me for the mailing address you can send them to, to help feed Bazil! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/151 - Release Date: 10/28/2005
Chinese cat and dog fur
Yes unfortunately very true. It is much cheaper to import cat and dog fur from china than fake fur. Last year I voiced my disgust at a couple of shops here in the uk for passing furry ball scarfs off as fake - they were not labelled and smelled like animal and you could see the animal skin it was so poorly made. I ended up repoting the shops to peta and getting fur trade info sent out to them. The chinese fur trade is cruel beyond belief. Peta recently got some undercover video footage which I daren't watch because I'll be tootraumatised. They do skin alive as they believe the adrenylin pumping provides for a better quality pelt. They steal people's pets too for the fur - the whole thing is sick. I know peta are often seen as extreme but on this one they appear to be spot on sadly. Michelle, Buddy, Minstrel Angel Bramble (After my sighting I played Bramble's favourite music and had his ashes casket on one shoulder and tidge's on the other telling them I'm happy for them to be with me whenever they want)
Re: OT: you guys seen these checks?
Nice. I bought a program from a friend where I can make my own checks using my cats photos, haven't made any yet bacuse I don't use checks much, but I did test it and it is pretty cool!! I paid I think $30.00 for it. It's called VersaCheck 2000. -- 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.com/cls HostDesign4U.com (affordable hosting web design) http://HostDesign4U.com --- BMK Designs (non-profit web sites) http://bmk.bemikitties.com
Re: Chinese cat and dog fur
ABC News, I think it was 20/20, also had a segment on the Chinese dog and cat fur trade and a video! There was a German Shepherd, tail happily wagging, being led off to his terrible fate and then it was filmed. Let's face it, all fur is cruel! Whether an wild animal is caught in a trap, has it's neck broken or suffers anal electrocution on a fur farm - where it's life has been spent in a tiny cage - the fur trade is cruelty incarnate. Nobody has to wear fur anymore except perhaps some Inuit who live in Arctic regions. Check out a great video called The Witness made by a group called Tribe of Heart. It's about an average blue collar worker from, I think, the Bronx, who discovers the inner workings of the fur trade. In the final scene, he had rigged up a video camera on his van and drives around Manhattan showing scenes of animals struggling in traps, being killed for fur, to holiday shoppers. Many onlookers look stunned, avert their eyes, and some cry. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 11:35 am Subject: Chinese cat and dog fur Yes unfortunately very true. It is much cheaper to import cat and dog fur from china than fake fur. Last year I voiced my disgust at a couple of shops here in the uk for passing furry ball scarfs off as fake - they were not labelled and smelled like animal and you could see the animal skin it was so poorly made. I ended up repoting the shops to peta and getting fur trade info sent out to them. The chinese fur trade is cruel beyond belief. Peta recently got some undercover video footage which I daren't watch because I'll be too traumatised. They do skin alive as they believe the adrenylin pumping provides for a better quality pelt. They steal people's pets too for the fur - the whole thing is sick. I know peta are often seen as extreme but on this one they appear to be spot on sadly. Michelle, Buddy, Minstrel Angel Bramble (After my sighting I played Bramble's favourite music and had his ashes casket on one shoulder and tidge's on the other telling them I'm happy for them to be with me whenever they want)
Re: anesthesia question-atropine's interesting history!
No, she doesn't get it. I can't give her any supplements that alter the ph of her urine right now. She had a struvite stone before, and then, maybe from making it too acidic, she got an ammonia urate stone, which is pretty rare, and we are trying to manage her ph now that the stone was removed. Michelle In a message dated 10/29/2005 9:18:34 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: are you giving her vitamin c? you know that that can cause diarrhea. in her present state, if you are giving it to her you might need to cut back? just at thought. t
Question on diarrhea
So Lucy still has diarrhea, going on a week now. It started a few days before her surgery, I think from my switching her diets too quickly-- she had been on S/D only for about 6 weeks, and I stupidly switched her to S/O over only two days when it was clear her bladder stone was not struvite and had gotten bigger rather than smaller on the S/D. She had been on Baytril for a month at that point too, because without it she kept getting UTI's due to the bladder stone. Since 2 days after surgery she has been off the baytril, but I have had to switch her food again (this time i am doing it slowly) due to finding out her stonewas ammonia urate (neither struvite nor oxylate). She has been on Metronidazole for 4 days. I am concerned, because I have never seen diarrhea in a cat take longer than 2 days to resolve on Metronidazole, and the vet seemed surprised as well. I have been giving her slippery elm, and today started giving her a feline kaolin diarrhea over-the-counter med. I gave her acidophilus for a few days after stopping the Baytril. Any suggestions? Also, have any of you ever seen diarrhea persist for over a week, with no other symptoms, from something like antibiotics or dietary change, but then resolve in a little more time? Thanks, Michelle
Re: cat and dog fur
The Phillippines is also a source of cat fur. The ABC video showed a fur operation there. In a cage that had been full of cats, the last two terrified-looking cats were clinging to one another as workers took them out one by one and strangled them in front of the other cats. These cats knew what their fate was. The film was shown over a year ago but it's all coming back now. I wrote a letter to the Phillippine embassy; someone there wrote back denying it was happening and indignantly demanded to know the address of the factory. The video had only said this was happening in the Phillippines but I hope they got plenty of other letters. I think the Burlington Coat factory was one chain mentioned that was selling dog and cat fur trimmed coats. A lot of the coat labels had names of made-up animals like Russian ard-wolf. Many people don't want to hear about the horrible things animals go through; they think nothing can be done but we have to keep bringing it up - it only takes a few dedicated people to start changes in the way we think and do things...it always has, as someone once said. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Kerry MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:33 pm Subject: Re: Chinese cat and dog fur Isn't it odd how people talk about someone behaving like an animal when they behave in a particulary nasty way. No animal is capable of the horrors perpetrated by humans. I would like to see a huge campaign mounted to encourage a boycott of Chinese goods until they shape up. Since half the stuff we buy these days seems to come from China it would have to give them pause. On the other hand there probably isn't a single country in the world that treats animals with respect. I like to think that one day people will look back at the way we behavetowards animals as they look at slavery today---and wonder how we could possibly have thought it was ok to use, abuse, eat and wear them. Kerry
Re: My Beautiful Mandy
Julie, I'm so sorry to hear this. God bless little Mandy. You take care of yourself. tonya --- Julie Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, Mandy is gone. She was not doing well Tuesday night (bleeding from the mouth and unable to eat) and I made the decision to end her suffering. I called my husband and he left work right away to come home. We held her and stroked her and ultimately she began to purr. She never cared to be held; she liked to pick the spot and sit ON you, but she did curl up in her blanket and let us hold her. We were with her and holding her and talking softly to her and she had one paw curled over my finger when she left us. It's been so empty the last two nights without my little reading partner; she always liked to sit on the bed with her upper body across my arm and her paws on my shoulder while I read at night. Since she became sick, she wanted to be with me all the time and she'd been reading with me every night for weeks. I keep thinking back to our trip to the oncologist; only last week and it seems forever ago. Even though the news for Mandy was not good, we had a lovely day and I am so grateful for it. She and Wink snoozed the whole way home. They were all curled up together on their faux mink and listening to their special pet music. I kept turning back to look at them and it was so peaceful and loving. We stopped where I work to feed my feral colony and I took the carrier out of the car and set it on the ground while I fed; Mandy trotted right to the front and began to meow to Depot Charlie! She was such a little talker and he looked so puzzled! I'm happy they were able to meet. Thank you all for being here and for your good thoughts and wishes; I'd be completely lost without you during this year of terrible losses. I have to try and concentrate on how fortunate we were to have shared her short life. I miss her; we had our morning routine of putting the ingredients in the food processor and she'd talk to me once the whirr of the blade sounded. These last two mornings have been empty, as well. You are the only ones who understand the huge hole in our home despite the joy of our other cats. Love, Julie I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) Paws Come WITH Claws!!! If you're thinking about de-clawing your cat, you need to re-think your decision to acquire a pet. - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.
