seeking placement for three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread JENI RECA
Hi, Just when I found placement for the adult feluk positive, now three kittens need placement. The woman was going to take them to the vet to pts them, but I told her I would take them and find a home for them. They are about 8-9 weeks old and tested positive yesterday. Need help yet

Re: seeking placement for three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread Kelley Saveika
If they are 8-9 weeks old, SNAP tests are very inaccurate. I would not even bother testing a kitten that age. They need to be retested in 6 months to see if they are actually positive or not. On 10/1/07, JENI RECA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just when I found placement for the adult feluk

RE: Kitten update Take 2

2007-10-01 Thread Caroline Kaufmann
The diarrhea contiunes but it's now mostly affecting Yoda. The other two will have normal poos, and then sometimes soft, cow-pie poos, but they are not having the runny, watery, sometimes mucousy diarrhea Yoda is now having. I'm just baffeled. And upset for him. I went to scoop him up

Re: FeLV Help for a 5 year old male cat

2007-10-01 Thread Belinda
Gina, Take a breath and then seriously consider taking Whisper to another vet, this vet doesn't seem to have a clue. Do you have Whispers blood work results, if so can you post his HCT, RBC, HGB? Has his teeth been checked, drooling can mean bad teeth, stomach upset among other things?

Re: FeLV Help for a 5 year old male cat

2007-10-01 Thread Belinda
You should be able to get copies of the tests to take to any new vet or have the old vet transfer them, my guess is the old vet will want to charge a fee to do this, which is acceptable as long as it isn't ridiculous. Another thing to think about, is that if you switch vets now, the new vet

RE: Quality Foods

2007-10-01 Thread Dawn Morrison
I went out this weekend and purchased the Wellness Core dry and some cans of wet. Bea LOVES the wet food but wasn't all that interested in the dry. I mixed the dry kitten food she'd been eating with some of the Wellness and she still wouldn't eat it. Finally I put down a bowl of just her kitten

Re: Quality Foods

2007-10-01 Thread Dawn Morrison
I forgot to type the last line asking if anyone has suggestions on how to transfer from one dry food to the next. Thanks D - Original Message From: Dawn Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, October 1, 2007 10:16:44 AM Subject: RE: Quality Foods I

Re: Quality Foods

2007-10-01 Thread laurieskatz
Recommended: 3/4 current food and 1/4 new food for 3 days; 1/2 and 1/2 for 3 days; 1/4 current and 3/4 new for 3 days and then 100% new. My cats won't always accept a new food, even done this way. I actually take alot longer with the 1/2 1/2 before going to more of the new. Good luck. I just

Re: Kitten update Take 2

2007-10-01 Thread Marylyn
Caroline, This sounds so much like the problems Kitty had with food allergies and pancreas problems. I really think you need to get her checked for those items. You can do an elimination diet fairly easily. If the pancreas is causing problems you want to know it now. Take care.

RE: Quality Foods

2007-10-01 Thread Chris
My five love the wet Wellness-won't go near the dry! And I have a couple who will eat just about anything, anytime, any way! LOL Christiane Biagi 914-632-4672 Cell: 914-720-6888 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katrina Animal Reunion Team (KART) www.findkpets.org Join Us Help Reunite

Re: Quality Foods

2007-10-01 Thread laurieskatz
Truth is...wet is better than dry because of moisture and no grains. check out this vet's site: www.catinfo.org Laurie - Original Message - From: Chris To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:55 AM Subject: RE: Quality Foods My five love the wet

RE: Kitten update Take 2

2007-10-01 Thread Caroline Kaufmann
I talked to the Vet today and he says it could be bacterial enteritis so he had prescribed a medicine that I am picking up today to treat Yoda with. The vet says we will try that and if that doesn't clear up the diarrhea, Yoda will go in for further testing, smears, etc. So, I'm going to

Re: seeking placement for three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread Kelley Saveika
I'm sorry, I should have given a cite for this. My vet says testing cats of less than 3 months is not recommended. I can't find anything on the Internet to cooberate. Anyone hear of this before? On 10/1/07, Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they are 8-9 weeks old, SNAP tests are very

Re: seeking placement for three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread Pat Kachur
All of the vets I have had over the years have stated this same thing re testing of kittens less than 3 months old. - Original Message - From: Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:22 PM Subject: Re: seeking placement for

Re: seeking placement for three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread gary
I haven't heard of the SNAP test being any more inclined toward false positives on young kittens when testing for feluk. I have heard that if you are testing young kittens for FIV there is a good chance of a false positive from antibodies in their mother's milk if she was positive. This

RE: seeking placement for three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread Chris
My Tucson got a negative Elissa at 6-8 weeks 4+ years later (after being an indoor only cat), showed up positive... I've always felt there are probably a whole lot more like her out there... Christiane Biagi 914-632-4672 Cell: 914-720-6888 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katrina Animal Reunion Team

Re: seeking placement for three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread Tad Burnett
It is a fact that many kittens that test pos at 8 weeks will test neg. at 16 weeks... Some people say 6 months to be sure but from my personal experience the test at 16 weeks is about 80% accurate A word about Jeni... She is very active in short term fostering and holding kitties until she

re: placement of three feluk positive kittens

2007-10-01 Thread JENI RECA
Hi, Thank you Tad for your kind words, and yes you have my situation right. Ideally I would love to find placement for them all together in a home without cats, because there is a slight chance they could not be feluk positive at all. But I don't know anyone that could possibly do this that