Just a word of warning: Do not let your vet do lots of vaccinations,
worming etc at one time. This will put a lot of stress on Midnight's body
and is not necessary. There are various opinions on vaccinations.
Personally I believe, like my alterative vets, that we over vaccinate. This
is particularly hard on a cat that has been on the streets and may be a
throw away, is adjusting to a new life, is getting neutered, being handled
by vets and their techs ...............put yourself in Midnight's place and
take these things very slowly. Consider what you do in light of where
Midnight is going to live (entirely indoors I assume) and the chances of
exposure. Please consider worming him long before you have him neutered
too. Worms can cause all sorts of problems, many of which are hard to
detect.
If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of
compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with
their fellow man.
St.
Francis
----- Original Message -----
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Pink tinged watery stuff is USUALLY vomit, and it turns pink when they
have
roundworms. I'd have him dewormed, if you haven't already (and don't freak
out too
much if you see spaghetti-like worms in the pink stuff somewhere down the
road). It
COULD be urine, but that would indicate an infection... the only thing
that turns
urine pink is blood, and the only way you get blood in urine is infection
(unless
he's been recently cathetered, in which case it could be trauma to the
urethra). You
can try to see if it's pee... wait for him to go to the litterbox, and as
soon as he
comes out, wipe his privates with a piece of white toilet paper, if he's
just peed,
you should get a little drop, and if it's pink, you know that's the
orifice it's
coming from.
I think the house retest would be OK, if ALL you are hoping to do is check
to see if
it was a bad result (like due to human error). If you're retesting to see
if he's
throw the virus off, that's too son, and as others stated, you should use
an IFA
test, not the in house ELISA SNAP test.
The very most important thing to do to care for FELV+ cats is to feed the
very BEST
food you can afford. Either homemade, or premium brands like Wellness,
Innova, or
Chicken Soup for the Cat brands. A lot of people supplement with Lysine
and vitamin
C. Plus lots give low dose oral interferon alpha. here's more info on
that:
http://www.islandpharmacy.com/site/1420401/page/769212
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/9352/interferon.html
http://www.amarbio.com/03productcandidate.html
And here's my page with more links about FELV:
http://ucat.us/FELVFIVFIP.html
Here is the webpage for all of the popular treatments for FELV:
http://www.felineleukemia.org/treatmnt.html
Like I said, DIET should come first though!
Phaewryn
http://ucat.us
Adopt a New England FIV+ cat:
http://ucat.us/FIVadopt.html
Special Needs Cat Links (and feline info library):
http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html
