Dear Hideyo
You are a kind hearted sensitive caring person. I have not been on this
group long to know the full story about how the ferals came to be in your
care. I do know you have loved and cared for them which is something they
would not have in the wild. I don't know the exact stats but a feral cats
lifespan is very short indeed. Not usually a good outcome. Hindsight is
always better than foresight, please do not blame yourself..
You are in no way to responsible for this outcome.
YOU ARE A WONDERFUL PERSON!!!
Many years ago I had a cat who I was told died of something called
peritonitis. We lived on a farm at that time he was a big tabby and white
tom cat. I was away at college when all this transpired. MY parents took
him to the vet who said there really wasn't much he could do this was some
30 years ago. He put the cat on antibiotics and the cat ate but I
understand continued to lose weight. My parents were waiting for me to
come home before doing anything with him. Unfortunately as cats will do he
went off and I never saw him again.
The more we are exposed to the felines we love the more likely we may
encounter these problems. Am i going to quit having cats because of my two
FELV positive babies, NO WAY.
Hugs
Sally
At 11:46 PM 11/4/2006 -0700, you wrote:
Hi, everyone I just cremated my little Dharma this morning --- before I
had a chance to sit down and think of all the memories of my little
special Dharma ---and before I had a chance to cry.... my little feral
kitty, Olive now has FIP... and I just found it out..and I am just
devasted all over again.
Olive is my feral kitty who is now about a year old and who came from the
same colony as Dharma and Naomi. Since she is a feral kitty, I really did
not know how sick she was and it's my fault not paying attention to her
more..she had a seizure tonght -- and I held her and noticed that she had
lost lots of weight and very dehydrated.. and she must be very weak as she
let me hold her.. I gave her 250 ml of subQ fluid as she was extremely
dehydrated and hot -- and I ran to the emergency clinic after that..and
asked them to run a blood work-------I was so praying that it's not FIP --
then, I waited and finally talk to the doctor regarding blood work and it
was very similar to Peter's blood work --the doctor did not know exactly
what it was-- she said either cancer or FIP...her gloublin is elevated and
alubmin is decreased, her total bilrbrin is elevated.. and mos of the
liver (ALT and AST) were very elevated. .she was not anemic (PCV=31) --
she thought I really coudln't treat her since she was feral and suggest
euthanaisa.. but I said no.. I want to bring her home and try everything I
can.. she just was walking around and eating until earlier today...so I
brought her home as I knew she would be better off coming home as there
wasnt' anything they could do for her specifically. I held her for a long
time.. she is just very sweet..
I did not know ir I coule syringe feed her,, but she let me and she ate
very well.. she is just very sweet little gir.. she is black/white taxido
girl... sthe bad new is since then, she had three more seizures.. I really
did not want to give her valium as she already has liver issue.. but I
coudln't let her keep having a seizure so I gave a little bit of valium to
see if it will help not to have seizure anymore..
Everyone.. I am now convinced that I am the one who is producing this
disease fo rmy kitties -- I know that FIP is stress induced disease.. and
all of the kitties who have had FIP were not corona virus posivite kitties
and the become exposed due to all my others who have been.. and all of the
kitties who have had FIP have been here less than year.. and my envrinment
has caused them to die -- Dr. Ishidaalso mentioned something similar when
I first explained how many kitties I have had FIP -- as much as he admired
what I do. .he thought that I was causing FIP among my cats.. and I have
to agree -- it's too much of price to pay and they did not deserve to
die.. I had a good intension but it was not good enough and I am very
responsible of all the deaths so I really am not any kind of hero.. if I
did not bring them home,, they would not have gotten FIP ...I don't regret
that the fact thatI had an opportunity to have met them.. but had no right
to bring my house which is considered to be a very high risk for FIP ..
they did not ask for that...
Everyone, please pray and send a good positive healinng energy to my
little Olive.. I started on FOI tonight and am hoping that it will make
her feel better - again I have not given up regardlesss of whatever the
disease might be.. I still belive in power of intensions and miracle if
that's what it takes.. I juar have to be calm and sending her a good thought..
again thank you very much for all your support and I am sorry for asking
for more prayers before I had a chance to thank you for all your kind
words you have sent to me and dharma..
Hideyo
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