Thanks to all who have responded so far. I have
pretty much the same thoughts/questions as you have suggested. Obviously,
a factor will also be if his blood test results are satisfactory to be able to
go ahead with the dental.
Michelle:
Unfortunately, a dental vet is not really an option here (rural area) - the
nearest one would be probably 2 hrs. away. I will discuss this with my vet
though, because when Casper was going to have to get a canine extracted, we had
to take him to a vet 1/2 hr. away because he had the necessary equipment needed
to perform such an extraction. That's when he was diagnosed with CRF, so
the surgery couldn't be done. Quite a while later, that tooth fell out on
it's own without any problems.
I do trust our vet very much. She does the
surgeries at the clinic, and she is more well versed on FelV than the other vets
- in fact, she did her thesis on the subject when she was in University/Vet
College.
When Pekoe had Hemobart before, his PCV (HCT) was down
to 17% (Normal range 24 - 45%). After 3 weeks on Doxycycline, it came up
to 38%. When he had the baseline blood work done a month later, it was 41%
(Normal range for the different lab was 28 - 49%).
Marlene
(Pekoe & Angel Digby)
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