Re: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-31 Thread felv
Best Friends just opened a new FELV+ cat house. They are in Utah. I do have a few listed on my website, towards the bottom, no kill shelters: http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database:

RE: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-30 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Re this poor cat, Homey, that's doomed to die Wednesday unless a home is found, do we/does anyone have a comprehensive list of shelters/sanctuaries in the US that take FeLV cats? Any names we can pass on to Judy and Amy? Or is this a dumb thing to ask since she/they will already have contacted

Re: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-30 Thread Belinda Sauro
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RE: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-30 Thread Amy Wilkins
I thought the same thing. She really doesn't seem open to this idea though. She feels that she has a full house and just can't bring another one in, especially one with leukemia :( --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance she could keep this little guy with her others if they are

Re: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-29 Thread TenHouseCats
oh, sigh. do we (that's the collective we) have a basic primer on FeLV--about how many cats throw it off, how vaccinated cats living with positives stay negative, etc--that we can mail off to folks? the best friends' article on FIV is SO clear, so simple, and has saved SO many lives

Re: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-29 Thread felv
Yes, we DO need something like the FIV article at best friends. Something well written, and with some facts and studies to back the info up. Sad thing is, no one has bothered doing any scientific studies on FELV, so anything we write is just considered alternative or home remedies to the

Re: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-29 Thread TenHouseCats
research IS finally being done, on a limited basis, i'm told--specifically at ucdavis, and i believe that gloria knows about other studies. of COURSE there's no research! when a problem is best solved by euthanasia, where's the population to study?? and i'm not even concerned with getting

RE: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-29 Thread Chris
Any chance she could keep this little guy with her others if they are vaccinated. Sounds like vet is ready to euthanize may not be too knowledgeable Maybe she wants to read some of the posts here about folks' experiences with mixed households It sure sounds like she has fallen in love

Re: Leuk Positive Cat

2005-08-29 Thread Tad Burnett
It never rains but it pours...Just a few minutes after reading Amy's message (Hi Amy...CJ is doing good..) (Jenn...CJ is the big white and black cat that you meet..) I got a message from a person in north east Mass. that already has 50 cats in her house and rescued a friendly starving young