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Susan, I'm sorry to hear you lost so many babies in September, what a
terrible month it must have been! I'll send good vibes for your currently ill
babies, and I hope you don't suffer any more losses any time soon!
As far as your description of your "shell shock" cat, Daisy, YES, I have
seen that once before, just like you described it. It happened with I had a cat
that had kittens, she was moving them behind the stove, and she dropped one, and
it's head was just big enough to catch between a gas line and the wall (with
it's body dangling), I saw it very quickly, and carefully lifted it out, but the
kitten had the same symptoms you described, along with a general air of being
confused and constant crying in a bizarre way. She died about an hour later. I
THINK she had damaged her spinal cord, OR she was without oxygen, but I don't
think that was it, because it was only seconds she hung that way. So, your idea
of a injury sounds right, possibly a neck injury effecting the spinal column. It
was heartbreaking to watch, I held her until she died, and she cried constantly,
I really didn't think it would take an hour, or I would have made the drive to
the vet for euth. I feel guilty about that, she was only about a week or two
old. She finally took one long breath, wiggled and tossed her head, and just
died. I think watching momma cat try to find her for weeks after that was the
hardest part, especially since I had yelled at her for moving them under the
STOVE and blamed her for the baby's injury.
Phaewryn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:12
PM
Subject: Please add to the CLS - and HELP
- long, sorry
Please add my sweet (felv neg) Bessie to the CLS - she died
Sept.26th. She was a little tortie manx who'd had heartworms when
rescued about 5 years ago. Daily pred helped her survive the death of
the heartworms and she was one of my "library cats", who regularly came to
school with me. Such a sweet and gentle girl - she did the cutest little
trick of standing right next to me with one of her hind feet -- always a hind
foot - resting on my foot. The heartworms left her with right heart
damage which we weren't aware of. She began throwing clots to her lungs
and brain.
Please also add my little foster fella, Stinky, who was felv
positive. He died on 9/25. He was the cutest little tabby - always
full of life and mischief, only 8 months old. Healthy up until the last
week and then boom.
And please add my precious, precious Daisy (feleuk pos) also - she
died on Sept. 15. Daisy. How do I describe her. She
was technically my foster baby but so much more. Last year she came to
school with me every day. She is the only kitty I've ever had who came
to me every time I called. I'd call "Dai-doo" and in return get
this little "yip-yow" from wherever she was and here she'd come trotting to me
as fast as she could. She followed me around the library every step I
took and the whole staff and student body were in love with her. I could
take her anywhere with me on a harness and leash and she had a ball.
I got her at 4 months and she didn't come in heat until 18 months.
My vet and I were trying to decide if/when to spay her. She gaiined
weight over the summer and looked so healthy. Came into heat a second
time in late August.
She'd been on interferon and when we decided to spay her I decided to
start her on immunoregulin and wait a month or so first. The weekend
before she died, I couldn't find her one day. I was tearing the house
apart - one thing that I moved looking for her was a bed with lots of stuff
under it. I didn't find her there -- and when she finally turned up
later at the other end of the house it was like she was shell-shocked.
She looked panicked and couldn't turn her head very well - cried like moving
hurt her. I made the assumption that she'd been under the bed I'd moved
and I'd squashed her or otherwise hurt her. Was afraid I'd
injured her neck - gave her a depo shot. She seemed to move better and
went on to have the best week she'd had in ages. Up thru Friday night
whe was fine. I couldn't find her all day Sat - found her dead Sunday
morning. Now I wonder if the last weekend's episode was feleuk
related. Also - I'd updated her respiratory vaccs in late August --
wouldn't have done except that I have so many chronic URI fosters.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
She was just 22 months old and her death has completely broken my
heart.
And now Valley - please put him on the special needs list - I need
prayers or meditation or chanting or whatever you believe in -- for a
remission for the feleuk crisis he is in. He is another of my
"library cats" who comes to work with me. He was a rescue from a kill
shelter about 5 years ago - he was 1 or 2 at the time. Feleuk
positive. Looked like death warmed over but once fattened up has been so
healthy that I had him retested last year to see if he'd reverted to neg.
He began losing weight about 2 weeks ago - gums pale as snow. Blood
work shows a hematocrit of 7 - almost not compatible with
life. He is still somewhat active - gets off the bed to go to the
litterbox and sometimes to the rest of the house. Will eat if I put food
in front of him. His vet thought we could get a remission until
the blood work came back. He is getting raw liver, Clindamycin,
5mg pred every day, PetTinic, interferon. I have immunoregulin and could
try that. I asked about Epogen and the way my vet explained it is
that with feline leukemia, where the bone marrow is basically "dead" and not
going to produce red cells, to give Epogen would be like knocking on the door
when nobody is home. We decided against blood transfusions due to
the stress and the short term result. Does anyone have any
ideas?
I apologize for the length of this. Thanks for reading.
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