Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Sally Davis
I posted this to the Angels on My Shoulder group, but I will share my
feelings here too



It was one year ago that my precious Tiny went on to the
Rainbows Bridge. Everyone deals with Grief differently. I lost four cats
that year including Tiny. I was not expecting my Tiny to leave me so soon.
He was a little over 5 years old. A neighbor's child brought him to me as a
kitten saying her parents were going to get rid of it. She said a cat had
kittens under their porch. I did not really believe the story but I took the
tiny kitty and gave him a home. He looked to me not even old enough to be
separated from his mom. He would later develop a habit of making biscuits in
my hair. He did this all his short life. He also would sleep on my head.
Purring loudly. I mean literally on my head or he would use it as a pillow.
All his life he had an occasional cough. I worried that it was asthma or
heart worms. I will never know. The spells were short lived and then he
seemed fine. Summer of 2006 he had a vicious coughing spell that literally
knocked him off his feet. He also had a cold. I took him to the vet. He was
given antibiotics and got better. Several of my other cats got sick too. All
with cold like symptoms. Junior his half brother, same mom she was feral,
had been hit by a car that spring and stayed inside recuperating. He too got
sick and had anemia on top of the cold.

Long story short I wound up losing Pumpkin who was hiding symptoms from me
and not eating. He was anemic and jaundiced when taken to the vet. Two day
later I had to take him back and he stayed on IV for two days. Seemed better
the second night there he crashed. He was a shell of himself and I had him
PTS. I took Junior back to his vet to make sure he was ok because he had
similar symptoms. He had a fever of 106.5 so they kept him. The vet called
later wanted to do a feline leukemia test and it was positive. Turned out
Tiny was positive too. Junior already had classic symptoms. Tiny was over
his cold and never showed symptoms. I also had another positive cat who was
PTS as he was also positive for FELV and FIV. He had also been sick. I would
have probably done that differently had I known what I know now.
The rest of my cats were ok and vaccinated.

Tiny had been a little under the weather, but nothing earth shattering or I
would have had him checked out. Christmas day it rained all day. Tiny seems
a little distressed, but then again not anything that would indicate what
would happen. I watched TV with him and I got up to check my emails. I heard
that same violent cough as the summer before. I rushed to the living room.
to move him. I though he would vomit. His gums were already turning blue. I
gabbed the oxygen tank and it was empty. I went to get the concentrator
which is my husbands. Checked on him we are talking less than a minute. His
breathing calmed down and he was gone. I am told that it was probably a
blood clot he threw and that he did not feel anything after the initial
cough. I still wonder if there was something I missed in his short life that
could have saved him. I buried him in the rain crying the whole time. It
would seem his grave is probably a tad on the lot next to me.

Junior still survives. I constantly worry about him. He currently has a URI
that he can't seem to shake. Feline leukemia is a horrible disease.
Thanks everyone for your comforting words when my Tiny Whiney left me.
Sally
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Re: Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Kelley Saveika
Sally,

I am so very sorry for all your losses.

Take care of yourself.

Kelley


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Re: Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Sally Davis
Thanks Kelley

This year has been better. Junior has made it past the one year point, and
though he is not perfectly healthy, he is hanging in there. I need to get
him back on his Transfer factor. I think it helps him. Also I am thinking of
going to the big guns for his URI, azithromycin. Last time we saw the vet
she was on board for this as the next step. The Clindamycon knocked out his
gingivitis but the URI remains and he now has a cough.

Sally

On Dec 25, 2007 9:06 PM, Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Sally,

 I am so very sorry for all your losses.

 Take care of yourself.

 Kelley


 --
 Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.

 http://www.rescuties.org

 Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!

 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20

 http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*

 Please help Clarissa!

 http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart




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Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and  Spike
 Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to sign
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Re: Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Kelley Saveika
Yes - I don't have an FELV+ cat but I do have an immune compromised cat
(heart disease) and azithromycin clears up her URIs when nothing else does.
I hope it will help Junior.

Kelley

On Dec 25, 2007 8:12 PM, Sally Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks Kelley

 This year has been better. Junior has made it past the one year point, and
 though he is not perfectly healthy, he is hanging in there. I need to get
 him back on his Transfer factor. I think it helps him. Also I am thinking of
 going to the big guns for his URI, azithromycin. Last time we saw the vet
 she was on board for this as the next step. The Clindamycon knocked out his
 gingivitis but the URI remains and he now has a cough.

 Sally

   On Dec 25, 2007 9:06 PM, Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Sally,
 
  I am so very sorry for all your losses.
 
  Take care of yourself.
 
  Kelley
 
 
  --
  Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.
 
  http://www.rescuties.org
 
  Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!
 
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20
 
  http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*
 
  Please help Clarissa!
 
  http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart
 
 


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 Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty,
 Little Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and
  Spike  Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to
 sign up.

 http://www.k6az.com/ki4spk/index.php?sid=c57c00cf5804ef13853ed6e77a68eed3




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Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.

http://www.rescuties.org

Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20

http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*

Please help Clarissa!

http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart


Re: Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Sally Davis
I will probably call the Vet tomorrow. She is real good about Junior's
condition. I do not have to take him in all the time. I am guessing she will
have to write script for it am I right?

Sally

On Dec 25, 2007 9:23 PM, Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Yes - I don't have an FELV+ cat but I do have an immune compromised cat
 (heart disease) and azithromycin clears up her URIs when nothing else does.
 I hope it will help Junior.

 Kelley

   On Dec 25, 2007 8:12 PM, Sally Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Thanks Kelley
 
  This year has been better. Junior has made it past the one year point,
  and though he is not perfectly healthy, he is hanging in there. I need to
  get him back on his Transfer factor. I think it helps him. Also I am
  thinking of going to the big guns for his URI, azithromycin. Last time we
  saw the vet she was on board for this as the next step. The Clindamycon
  knocked out his gingivitis but the URI remains and he now has a cough.
 
  Sally
 
On Dec 25, 2007 9:06 PM, Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
   Sally,
  
   I am so very sorry for all your losses.
  
   Take care of yourself.
  
   Kelley
  
  
   --
   Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.
  
   http://www.rescuties.org
  
   Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!
  
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20
  
   http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*
  
   Please help Clarissa!
  
   http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart
  
  
 
 
   --
  Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty,
  Little Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and
   Spike  Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to
  sign up.
 
 
  http://www.k6az.com/ki4spk/index.php?sid=c57c00cf5804ef13853ed6e77a68eed3
 



 --
 Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.

 http://www.rescuties.org

 Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!

 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20

 http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*

 Please help Clarissa!

 http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart




-- 
Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty, Little
Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and  Spike
 Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to sign
up.

http://www.k6az.com/ki4spk/index.php?sid=c57c00cf5804ef13853ed6e77a68eed3


Re: Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Kelley Saveika
Yes, they can't dispense it that I know of..at least not in Texas..my vet
writes me a prescription for it and I get it filled at Target...

On Dec 25, 2007 8:26 PM, Sally Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I will probably call the Vet tomorrow. She is real good about Junior's
 condition. I do not have to take him in all the time. I am guessing she will
 have to write script for it am I right?

 Sally

   On Dec 25, 2007 9:23 PM, Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Yes - I don't have an FELV+ cat but I do have an immune compromised cat
  (heart disease) and azithromycin clears up her URIs when nothing else does.
  I hope it will help Junior.
 
  Kelley
 
On Dec 25, 2007 8:12 PM, Sally Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Thanks Kelley
  
   This year has been better. Junior has made it past the one year point,
   and though he is not perfectly healthy, he is hanging in there. I need to
   get him back on his Transfer factor. I think it helps him. Also I am
   thinking of going to the big guns for his URI, azithromycin. Last time we
   saw the vet she was on board for this as the next step. The Clindamycon
   knocked out his gingivitis but the URI remains and he now has a cough.
  
   Sally
  
 On Dec 25, 2007 9:06 PM, Kelley Saveika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   
Sally,
   
I am so very sorry for all your losses.
   
Take care of yourself.
   
Kelley
   
   
--
Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.
   
http://www.rescuties.org
   
Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!
   
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20
   
http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*
   
Please help Clarissa!
   
http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart
   
   
  
  
--
   Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty,
   Little Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and
Spike  Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome 
   to
   sign up.
  
  
   http://www.k6az.com/ki4spk/index.php?sid=c57c00cf5804ef13853ed6e77a68eed3
  
 
 
 
  --
  Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.
 
  http://www.rescuties.org
 
  Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!
 
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20
 
  http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*
 
  Please help Clarissa!
 
  http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart
 
 


 --
 Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty,
 Little Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and
  Spike  Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to
 sign up.

 http://www.k6az.com/ki4spk/index.php?sid=c57c00cf5804ef13853ed6e77a68eed3




-- 
Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time.

http://www.rescuties.org

Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=rescuties-20

http://www.zazzle.com/rescuties*

Please help Clarissa!

http://rescuties.chipin.com/clarissasheart


Re: Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Sherry DeHaan
Sally thank you for sharing your story with us.Hugs to you...
  Sherry and my 5 beautiful fur kids

Sally Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted this to the Angels on My Shoulder group, but I will share my 
feelings here too
   
   
  
It was one year ago that my precious Tiny went on to the
Rainbows Bridge. Everyone deals with Grief differently. I lost four cats
that year including Tiny. I was not expecting my Tiny to leave me so soon. 
  He was a little over 5 years old. A neighbor's child brought him to me as a
kitten saying her parents were going to get rid of it. She said a cat had
kittens under their porch. I did not really believe the story but I took the 
tiny kitty and gave him a home. He looked to me not even old enough to be
separated from his mom. He would later develop a habit of making biscuits in
my hair. He did this all his short life. He also would sleep on my head. 
Purring loudly. I mean literally on my head or he would use it as a pillow.
All his life he had an occasional cough. I worried that it was asthma or
heart worms. I will never know. The spells were short lived and then he 
seemed fine. Summer of 2006 he had a vicious coughing spell that literally
knocked him off his feet. He also had a cold. I took him to the vet. He was
given antibiotics and got better. Several of my other cats got sick too. All 
with cold like symptoms. Junior his half brother, same mom she was feral,
had been hit by a car that spring and stayed inside recuperating. He too got
sick and had anemia on top of the cold.
   
  Long story short I wound up losing Pumpkin who was hiding symptoms from me
and not eating. He was anemic and jaundiced when taken to the vet. Two day
later I had to take him back and he stayed on IV for two days. Seemed better 
the second night there he crashed. He was a shell of himself and I had him
PTS. I took Junior back to his vet to make sure he was ok because he had
similar symptoms. He had a fever of 106.5 so they kept him. The vet called 
later wanted to do a feline leukemia test and it was positive. Turned out
Tiny was positive too. Junior already had classic symptoms. Tiny was over
his cold and never showed symptoms. I also had another positive cat who was 
PTS as he was also positive for FELV and FIV. He had also been sick. I would
have probably done that differently had I known what I know now.
  The rest of my cats were ok and vaccinated.
   
  Tiny had been a little under the weather, but nothing earth shattering or I
would have had him checked out. Christmas day it rained all day. Tiny seems
a little distressed, but then again not anything that would indicate what 
would happen. I watched TV with him and I got up to check my emails. I heard
that same violent cough as the summer before. I rushed to the living room.
to move him. I though he would vomit. His gums were already turning blue. I 
gabbed the oxygen tank and it was empty. I went to get the concentrator
which is my husbands. Checked on him we are talking less than a minute. His
breathing calmed down and he was gone. I am told that it was probably a 
blood clot he threw and that he did not feel anything after the initial
cough. I still wonder if there was something I missed in his short life that
could have saved him. I buried him in the rain crying the whole time. It 
would seem his grave is probably a tad on the lot next to me.
   
  Junior still survives. I constantly worry about him. He currently has a URI
that he can't seem to shake. Feline leukemia is a horrible disease.
  Thanks everyone for your comforting words when my Tiny Whiney left me.
  Sally
-- 
Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty, Little 
Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and  Spike  Please 
Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to sign up. 

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Re: Tiny one year ago

2007-12-25 Thread Sally Davis
There has been a long time curse if you want to call it that, which follows
a new arrival. It seems that a short time after the arrival I would lose a
cat. Now it dosen't always happen. My neighbors must think I rescue cats,
because this fall 3 were left at my house, 2 in a box on Thanksgiving
Day. One was given to me by a lady who was told I did rescue. Well not
officially but maybe unofficially. I have kept 2 of these kitties.

Pewter was spayed Friday and she is doing great. High jumps and running
around with he companion JJ. All my cats got their booster for FELV. The vet
agreed on the 3 year protocol for distemper. My wallet is much smaller now.

Thanks Kelley for the information on the Zithromax.

Sally
On Dec 25, 2007 9:41 PM, Sherry DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Sally thank you for sharing your story with us.Hugs to you...
 Sherry and my 5 beautiful fur kids

 *Sally Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote:

 I posted this to the Angels on My Shoulder group, but I will share my
 feelings here too



 It was one year ago that my precious Tiny went on to the
 Rainbows Bridge. Everyone deals with Grief differently. I lost four cats
 that year including Tiny. I was not expecting my Tiny to leave me so soon.

 He was a little over 5 years old. A neighbor's child brought him to me as
 a
 kitten saying her parents were going to get rid of it. She said a cat had
 kittens under their porch. I did not really believe the story but I took
 the
 tiny kitty and gave him a home. He looked to me not even old enough to be
 separated from his mom. He would later develop a habit of making biscuits
 in
 my hair. He did this all his short life. He also would sleep on my head.
 Purring loudly. I mean literally on my head or he would use it as a
 pillow.
 All his life he had an occasional cough. I worried that it was asthma or
 heart worms. I will never know. The spells were short lived and then he
 seemed fine. Summer of 2006 he had a vicious coughing spell that literally
 knocked him off his feet. He also had a cold. I took him to the vet. He
 was
 given antibiotics and got better. Several of my other cats got sick too.
 All
 with cold like symptoms. Junior his half brother, same mom she was feral,
 had been hit by a car that spring and stayed inside recuperating. He too
 got
 sick and had anemia on top of the cold.

 Long story short I wound up losing Pumpkin who was hiding symptoms from me
 and not eating. He was anemic and jaundiced when taken to the vet. Two day
 later I had to take him back and he stayed on IV for two days. Seemed
 better
 the second night there he crashed. He was a shell of himself and I had him
 PTS. I took Junior back to his vet to make sure he was ok because he had
 similar symptoms. He had a fever of 106.5 so they kept him. The vet called

 later wanted to do a feline leukemia test and it was positive. Turned out
 Tiny was positive too. Junior already had classic symptoms. Tiny was over
 his cold and never showed symptoms. I also had another positive cat who
 was
 PTS as he was also positive for FELV and FIV. He had also been sick. I
 would
 have probably done that differently had I known what I know now.
 The rest of my cats were ok and vaccinated.

 Tiny had been a little under the weather, but nothing earth shattering or
 I
 would have had him checked out. Christmas day it rained all day. Tiny
 seems
 a little distressed, but then again not anything that would indicate what
 would happen. I watched TV with him and I got up to check my emails. I
 heard
 that same violent cough as the summer before. I rushed to the living room.
 to move him. I though he would vomit. His gums were already turning blue.
 I
 gabbed the oxygen tank and it was empty. I went to get the concentrator
 which is my husbands. Checked on him we are talking less than a minute.
 His
 breathing calmed down and he was gone. I am told that it was probably a
 blood clot he threw and that he did not feel anything after the initial
 cough. I still wonder if there was something I missed in his short life
 that
 could have saved him. I buried him in the rain crying the whole time. It
 would seem his grave is probably a tad on the lot next to me.

 Junior still survives. I constantly worry about him. He currently has a
 URI
 that he can't seem to shake. Feline leukemia is a horrible disease.
 Thanks everyone for your comforting words when my Tiny Whiney left me.
 Sally
 --
 Sally, Eric (not a cat),Junior, Speedy, Grey and White, Ittle Bitty,
 Little Black, Lily, Daisy, Pewter, Junior Junior (newest) , Silver, and
  Spike  Please Visit my Message board for some pictures. You are welcome to
 sign up.

 http://www.k6az.com/ki4spk/index.php?sid=c57c00cf5804ef13853ed6e77a68eed3


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