Sounds like the vets in your country are not very knowledgeable about FeLv.
Your kitten is still young and might just be fighting the antibodies he got
from a FeLv+ mother. You need to retest him in about 2 to 3 months and he may
be negative, having overcome the antibodies. You need to know
I remember being very frightened when I found out that Fletch was positive for
Felv. But then I found this list and the people on here gave me much needed
hope. They explained, just like Lee did that this IS NOT a death sentence. So
keep your chin up. Tanya's CRF web site has a list of many
I'm not going to start an argument over one study.
Being in heat was very stressful on the one of the 1st FeLV cats I had. The
spay was easy she recovered quickly.
My cats have all been spayed. We've had cats live well into their 20's - all
spayed.
Cats who still have their ovaries, which are
No worries Kat, everybody has a bad day from time to time...esp. those of us
who deal with enough unthinking pet owners that we have a short trigger -
always expecting another one to come calling..-.or are afraid of being lumped
in w/them.
Keep up the good work have a nice Thanksgiving! ;-)
It's a very interesting article/study. I think they are not advocating
that pets go unspayed but rather there be further study of spay where only
the uterus is removed. But in addition to risks like mammary cancer, I
worry about spayed pets in heat and their hormonally driven efforts to
escape
Amen to that sister. My cat Cookie, long ago, was borderline diabetic. The
vet didn't want to subject her to anesthesia because he said she was an older
cat and might develop full blown diabetes since she was on the edge. So I
didn't have her spayed. She went into her heat cycle several more
The stress of an unspayed female is great, I think much greater than the
spaying
itself. And it may be true that pyometria is more common in dogs, but boy have
we seen plenty in outside cats, even young ones. One couldn't have been more
than a year old and we had no idea her slightly swollen
Munchkin, a 5 year old cat I adopted from a neighbor, lived with me for 20
years. He was neutered before he got either FeLv or FIV fortunately.
At least the neighbor had done that although Munchkin was allowed to
roam the neighborhood. He was a large, grey with an attitude and was
noticed
Someone would get a male cat a vasectomy? Or have a female cat's tubes
tied?
Wow.people are stupider than I thought.
B.
From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of
janine paton
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:27 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re:
The ovaries are responsible for the heat cycle, so they would still go into
heat still be more prone to mammary cancer stress.
KG BarnCats kgbarnc...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a very interesting article/study. I think they are not advocating
that pets go unspayed but rather there be further
My Nitnoy and Annie were both pos and both were spayed. Never seemed to affect
either one. Nitnoy's problem began much later when she developed plugged anal
glands and they became infected. Lesson for me, check those glands often.
Annie still going strong.
Beth
Breeders have vasectomized males around to get their intact females out of
heat.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Bonnie Hogue ho...@sonic.net wrote:
Someone would get a male cat a vasectomy? Or have a female cat’s tubes
tied?
Wow…people are stupider than I thought…
B.
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