I do have a question. Is the Immunoregulon that sells on Revival Animal Health ok to use? My Mom and I both acquired Collies that had demodectic mange and that was one of the things we used to help treat them.
Thanks so much Marcia Sent from my iPad On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:47 AM, "Lynda Wilson" <longhornf...@verizon.net> wrote: > I can appreciate your last paragraph, Maureen! You tell 'em girl! LOL!! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Maureen Olvey > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:41 AM > Subject: [Felvtalk] FW: My 1 year old just diagnosed > > It's such a strange an unpredictable disease and it seems like the more vets > and researchers learn the more they realize that they don't know about it. > But, there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel for all cats, even > Fletch. > > What have they figured out about Fletch so far? Is his white blood cell > count down or something? What's causing his weight loss? From hearing from > others on the list, even though he has FeLV you would treat him for his > symptoms as though he didn't have FeLV. What I mean by that is don't give > up. If a vet says "oh his white blood cell count is down and there's not > much that will help because he has FeLV" then ask him what he would do if he > didn't have FeLV and to treat him accordingly. Don't let a vet assume he is > going to die everytime he gets sick. You may need to be more aggressive with > his treatment or whatever because of the FeLV but keep fighting. If later on > he has a tumor then treat him for the tumor and don't just say "let him die." > The cat may have a flare up of something or another and then he is fine for > the rest of his life. > > Over the years I've been in rescue and in dealing with feral cats I've taken > two or three to the vet that had an injury or something and when the vet > tested them for FIV they were positive. Now that's not quite as bad as FeLV > but still the vets in every case said that the cat probably wouldn't heal > from his injuries because of the FIV and they recommended killing them. But > in every case I said no that I at least wanted to give them an opportunity to > heal before putting them down and in every single case the cat recovered. > The FIV cat that I have that I mentioned was that way. He had a bad URI and > the vet said he probably wouldn't get over it. One round of Clavamox later > and he was fine. Nothing to it. That was about two and a half years ago. > He was like 8 years old at the time. I remember two others that I took in > that had wounds and the vets said it was infected and they wouldn't recover > because of the FIV. LIke I said, the vet was wrong in both cases and the > cats are now fine. > > FeLV is very dangerous and you can't play with it so always keep a watchful > eye over Fletch but it's not an automatic death sentence either. So if funds > permit, find out specifically what's causing Fletch's symptoms and treat it. > > And for people that think less of cat lovers - well, I won't tell you what I > normally say to them. Something to the effect of "I'd rather be a crazy cat > (or animal in general) lover than a cold-hearted wretch who didn't appreciate > God's Creations!" Better to love too much than too little so what exactly is > wrong with caring about an animal so much that you want to do whatever you > can to save it's life. If God is Love then love comes from God and to love > is to honor God and the creation that He loves. That's the way I say it > nicely ;-) Usually after that nice speech I tell them to kiss my animal > loving butt! > > > “I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are > profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it inflicts upon > unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me > sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain > > > From: marciabmar...@gmail.com > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:36:51 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] My 1 year old just diagnosed > > Maureen > I can't thank you enough for this email. I know i'm not out of the woods yet, > as far as my adults go, but hoping. That seems like a miracle that your fiv > cat didn't contract felv! It seems to me, that after hearing from all of you > today that there can definitely be a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm so > grateful for all of you. And I love being with people who love cats, because > sometimes we are just as misunderstood as our feline buddies are! > Thank you Maureen. > Please take care > Marcia > > Sent from my Aug 22, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Maureen Olvey <molvey...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > Not too long ago I posted that I had a FeLV positive cat mixed with an FIV > positive cat. Obviously, I didn't know the FeLV cat was positive since she > tested negative as a kitten. Anyway, the two lived together for two years > until she died and I just tested my old FIV kitty and he's negative. I've > got a houseful of my cats and fosters and I've only tested like 7 of them so > far but they've all been negative. None are vaccinated against FeLV either. > It's weird. I totally expected my FIV kitty to contract it. I'm glad he > didn't of course. > > One vet I talked to said that it's possible the FeLV kitty put the virus into > dormancy as a kitten which is why she tested negative and then it reactivated > later as an adult. Maybe that's what happened with Fletch. I wouldn't have > thought a kitten would have a strong enough immune system to put the virus > into dormancy but who knows. But still once it reactivated in my cat I would > have thought she could have spread the virus to my other cats. This vet also > said that most vets now days believe that healthy adult cats are pretty much > immune to the virus. Still best to vaccinate your other cats annually but > I'm just saying it's not surprising your others are negative. > > I also have a friend who mixes her negatives and positives together. She > just keeps her negatives vaccinated annually. She even has FIV cats mixed in > and keeps them vaccinated too and they have never caught the FeLV virus. > > Definitely get an IFA test to confirm the ELISA test. The ELISA test is > wrong in about 30% of the cases from what someone else told me. It's a very > sensitive test so if it's not done perfectly it can show a false positive. > Course since Fletch is sick it could be correct but you should still > confirm with the IFA test. If the IFA test is negative then it means the > virus hasn't gotten into his white blood cells and t-cell lymphocytes (I have > no idea what that is, I just read it) so he still has a chance of > exterminating the virus completely or putting it into dormancy. So if his > IFA test is negative then do a retest in a couple months to see if it has > gotten that far or not. You need two test with the same results to confirm > FeLV status. > > If after doing the IFA, Fletch shows positive definitely look into immune > system stimulants like interferon and immunoreglin. I don't know much about > them but others on the list do and your vet should know. Need to keep Fletch > around for a long long time. Since he's sick right now I'd go ahead and get > him going on this kind of stuff. > > > “I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are > profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it inflicts upon > unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me > sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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