Re: Please wish Patches good luck! and Lucy too!

[Lernermichelle]

Thanks, Gloria.  That really does help.  I just have become so paranoid and fatalistic from losing so many animals in the last few years, that statistics like the one the vet cited just put me over the edge a little bit.   But Gray showed me that the vet also has a chart in the office, put out by Hills, saying that a 17 year old cat is equivalent to a 100 year-old human.  Now I know 17 is old for a cat, but that would make our cat Percy, who lived to a month short of 20, about 120 in human years!  Which is a bit ridiculous.  It also had dogs over 55 pounds being equivalent to 100 human years at age 11. This made Gray feel better because we lost our three large dogs at 9, 10, and 11 and felt like they were young when they died.  But we have also known a few large dogs who lived to 15, which would make them 140 in human terms according to the chart!  So all of these numbers are a bit bizarre when you sit down to think about them.   Sorry if I seem so anxious when I write.  The vet told me that he thought Patches was anemic, before the HCT results were done, and I almost passed out. But her HCT was 37, thank god.  I am just always so sure the other shoe will drop.  Everyone tells me I am completely the wrong type of person to have adopted 6 FeLV+ cats.  I know they are right.  But I also love them so much I can't imagine not having done it.   Michelle   In a message dated 1/4/2006 2:23:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Michelle,  prayers coming for Patches and Lucy!  I know you have a  lot os stress trying to keep them well.  In my opinion, different  vets will say  a lot if different, diverse things about FELV - much  just based on their feelings, not necessarily based on research or  solid evidence. My friend Susan has several FELV cats that just last  and last and last - going to be old age kitties.  Hope yours live  long too! Gloria