Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-24 Thread Kelley Saveika
Missy says: That's good advice:) On 1/23/07, TenHouseCats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aw, i feel so sad for the ones who are scared.. my FIV+ flamepoint himmie is so timid that, for the first five months he was with me, the only way i knew he was alive was to lift up the upholestered chair

OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread Kelley Saveika
I swear it seems to follow me like FELV does some of yall. My foster Clarissa was diagnosed with a heart murmur today. She's about 6 and a Persian. I love Persians but they have s many health problems:( -- Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time. http://www.rescuties.org Vist

Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread TenHouseCats
that's not because they're persians, but because they're the most popular cat breed in the US--ie, the most overbred, poorly bred, backyard bred, etc. i'm currently owned and operated by seven of the darlings, and so far today have been involved on some level with finding fosters or

Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread Kelley Saveika
My little Morgana that died last week was a Persian. I still don't know why she died. She did come from a hoarder, though. I'm hoping Clarissa's potential adopters will still want her. One of my friends in rescue has 17 of them. 2 at a time is about all I can handle, they need so much care.

Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread TenHouseCats
so many kitties that come from hoarder situations bring baggage that's almost impossible to overcome... hard to know if it's genetic, or just from neglect, or a problem with the individual cat that nothing would have been able to predict or prevent. which doesn't make it any easier to lose them.

Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread Kelley Saveika
Hehe! Well, this girl has chronic severe eye drainage that has to be cleaned daily and sometimes eyelid infections, ear issues..tooth issues...beautiful coat (that is fine as silk and has to be combed out daily)...and now a heart murmur. She's also front paw declawed and has severe fear of

Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread TenHouseCats
aw, i feel so sad for the ones who are scared.. my FIV+ flamepoint himmie is so timid that, for the first five months he was with me, the only way i knew he was alive was to lift up the upholestered chair he lived under to make sure he was still breathing... then he progressed to letting me

Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of my Persian rescues last year died from grade 5 heart murmur with cardiomyopathy. Yes, very unhealthy breed, IMO. Phaewryn http://ucat.us Adopt a New England FIV+ cat: http://ucat.us/FIVadopt.html Special Needs Cat Links (and feline info library): http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html

Re: OT -more kitties with heart disease

2007-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think I summed it up well on my sanctuary page ( http://ucat.us/NoKillSanctuaries.html ) when I said I believe in the Asilomar Accords +1: Here at Little Cheetah, we believe that any cat that is living a good quality of life, or has an excellent prognosis of recovering to live a good quality