I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that, and for your cats too. How horrible. Marcia Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:44 PM, MaiMaiPG <maima...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had two females. One was treated as a regular cat, spayed, came home and > was kept up and checked on regularly. She was fine, eating and.well fine > when I checked her on the second/third night. She was dying in my arms the > next morning. A very few months later I had another female, tested for > everything, taken to another vet (she was not related to the first girl), > spayed and given a lot more care. She came home, was kept up and was dying > in my arms the third day. There was no evidence of any problems with either > girl. And both vets are great but they are one person practices so they > weren't around when I needed them the most. Two cats, two vets..........it > happens and we can't always predict it. Needless to say, I die inside every > time I have a female spayed and have found a multiple vet practice that is a > longer way from here and no girl comes home until after the third day. At > least she will be near medical care if things go sour Things happen and > sometimes there just isn't anything we can do. We do our very best and that > is all we can do. > > On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:07 PM, HIDEYO YAMAMOTO wrote: > >> I would recommend to run a blood work to make sure that everything looks >> good before the surgery - especially CBC portion as sometimes their WBC/RBC >> might be a little off - >> I don't know if it's conincidence or not - I do believe that stress sort of >> triggered the disease - my completely healthy cat Tsubomi died about a month >> after the surgery - I think she had lymphoma - but we did not even think of >> it as she was completely healthy - I was devastated. >> >> Hideyo >> >> > Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 16:02:48 -0500 >> > From: felineres...@frontier.com >> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] neutering a positive cat >> > >> > I rescue cats and I've have had many FelV positive cats neutered or >> > spayed. If they are healthy at the time they come thru the surgery >> > just fine regardless of their FelV status. >> > >> > Lorrie >> > >> > On 01-02, dppl dppl wrote: I still have Mitt, the kitten I found in >> > > October who tested positive. He seems to be healthy at this time >> > > and around 7-8 months old. I am thinking I should have him >> > > neutered but the local humane society refused to do surgery on a >> > > positive cat, claiming surgery could trigger an immune system >> > > problem. Has anyone neutered their positive cat after finding >> > > out it was positive and what was your experience? Thanks for any >> > > input. PS: Someone asked my in a prior posting why the vet give >> > > vaccinations before getting blood work results that showed >> > > positive. She sent the blookwork to an outside lad since she >> > > said it would be less costly and that same visit when blood was >> > > drawn, she went ahead and did vaccinations. >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Felvtalk mailing list >> > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >> > http://fusion2.fusionhost.com/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Felvtalk mailing list >> Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >> http://fusion2.fusionhost.com/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://fusion2.fusionhost.com/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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