What I did forget to state with the article posting, it is available in the Oct. 2002 issue of Cat Fancy magazine.
The CS use was mentioned only in the preamble to the article. The full article goes on to explain FeLV, diagnosis, prevention, attitudes and treatments. As it stated in the article, the experiment ''started in May, could take eight months or more to yield conclusions, if any.'' I am trying to locate info to contact the Reinstedlers. A couple searches today came up with a phone number, but not sure it is the correct Ron Reinstedler. An attempted call was unsuccessful. Otherwise, I have had no luck in rounding up an email addy for them. If anyone else has any ideas on how to find an email addy for them, please, let me know. I tried the obvious yahoo searches, google searches, etc. Ron and Debbie Reinstedler Louisville, KY Perhaps if the author of the article responds to my inquiry he will also have contact info for the couple. Connie From: "Barbara Liles" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:00:47 -0500 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: CS>FW: Cat Fancy article/treating FeLeuk with CS Resent-From: [email protected] Resent-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:00:23 -0700 Connie, Did I miss something? How did the cats on CS do? ----- Original Message ----- From: Connie <mailto:[email protected]> To: silver- list <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:45 PM Subject: CS>FW: Cat Fancy article/treating FeLeuk with CS ---------- Here is the preamble to the Cat Fancy Article: Positive Outlook, Positive Environment Veterinariana find cats with the leukemia virus can enjoy life? By Steve Friess Most people try to avoid FeLV positive cats. However, Ron and Debbie Reinstedler will drive hundreds of miles to adopt them. The Louisville, Ky., couple rescued a pair of stray kittens found by friends in 2000 and soon discovered both cats contracted FeLV. To protect their FeLV-negative cats, the couple converted the apartment above their printing business into an FeLV-positive cat haven. Another friend then told them of six other FeLV-positive kittens at a shelter in Indiana, and a colony started to develop. Today, the Reinstedlers usually host approximately 50 FeLV-positive cats ranging in age from four months to 12 years old, some believed to have lived with FeLV for 10 years. On one occasion, they drove to St. Louis to meet someone from Topeka Kan., who wanted to turn over FeLV-positive cats and contacted tham via the Internet. The Reinstedlers turned their veritable cattery into an unofficial laboratory, splitting the animals into three groups and administering different treatments to observe any difference in outcomes. All receive Interferon alpha in the common week-on, week-off schedule, but one set also takes the antibiotic Baytril and another third take the liquid colloidal silver, a homeopathic remedy. The experiement, that started in May, could take eight months or more to yield conclusions, if any. While the effort is expensive---the Reinstedlers sometimes spend as much as $650 a month in veterinary bills---they believe it to be worthwhile. ''They all deserve a chance to live,'' says Ron Reinstedler, 58. ''Many people, as soon as they find a cat is FeLV-positive, they want to put it down. Why? They can live good lives for six months, a year, 18 months and sometimes much longer. They deserve the same as everyone else does.'' Steve Friess is a free-lance writer in Reno, Nev., whose contributions have appeared in The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report and Dog Fancy.
