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2010-04-13 Thread Twisted Princess
georgetta, what a heart warming story! from what i understand, many if not most rescues never even give a cat who produces a positive result on the fist test even a chance to be tested with the confirmation test. in fact many pet owners don't either. with the pet owners it is possible that the

[Felvtalk] second chance meows sanctuary

2010-04-13 Thread Twisted Princess
georgetta, what a heart warming story! from what i understand, many if not most rescues never even give a cat who produces a positive result on the first test even a chance to be tested with the confirmation test. in fact many pet owners don't either. with the pet owners it is possible that

[Felvtalk] ELISA positive followed by an IFA neg/ includes info on false positive ELISAs

2010-04-11 Thread Twisted Princess
i thought i would add this info since i didn't see it in the archives (which doesn't necessarily mean it's not there. it only means there was so much in the archives i didn't check out every thing.) the following was emailed to me by my sister in law who has a phd in veterinary medicine.

[Felvtalk] i was wrong. it wasn't the ifa test the vet ran.

2010-04-09 Thread Twisted Princess
 ok, so i'm not sure now as to sport being positive or negative for felv.. the vet wants to retest him when he returns in 3 weeks this time i think with the elisa.  i thought she said sport wasn't positive for felv but maybe she said the test she ran (ifa) didn't show sport as being positive

[Felvtalk] 2nd opinion

2010-04-06 Thread Twisted Princess
 last sunday (yes sunday, easter sunday-they are open 7 days a week with no extra charges on the weekend) to a vet. i think i mentioned them, they seem pretty knowledgeble with treating frlv from what i had seen on their web page. anyway, the vet didn't seem to think my cat was positive due to

[Felvtalk] found a vet and a question for laura

2010-03-28 Thread Twisted Princess
yes kelly, this is me.   the vet told me i could go ahead and discontinue the baytril if i was that worried but since someone here said it was onmly the large doese that cause blindness, i will go ahead and continue the treatment. even though i know i'd probably have a better chance at winning

[Felvtalk] the more i find out the more confused i become

2010-03-26 Thread Twisted Princess
i am new here. too many archives for me to read. just trying to read the ones that the topic caught my interest eventually overwhelmed me. my heart goes out to all of you who have had losses here. somewhere on the internet (i've been checkiong a lot of links about leukemia and taking notes) i

[Felvtalk] day 9 of baytril

2010-03-26 Thread Twisted Princess
hi, me again...   i know you can't believe everything you read on the internet but i have read from several sources regarding b aytril can cause blindness. one person mention  it will after 10 days. my vet has my cat on it. he gave me 4 ml and the dose is .3ml so that is nearly 2 weeks. i