Right now I'm sticking with my current vet because he's a good diagnostician
and also gives me rescue rates. I think the problem with him is that he's
afraid to miss a symptom that might actually be from FIV or FeLv so he keeps
asking about the cats. He knows that I rescue hard cases. His wife who also
practices with him is totally OK with the FIV/FeLv types and rarely even asks
because she knows I will tell her if I have a worry that the illness may be due
to the disorder.
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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From: "dlg...@windstream.net" <dlg...@windstream.net>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Why Are You Keeping This Cat Alive?
Find another vet like your old one. Keep looking until you find one.
---- Beth <create_me_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> My current vet & my previous vet all treat the symptoms like they would any
> other cat, but I know plenty who don't.
Beth
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From: Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com>
To: felvtalk <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 7:00 AM
Subject: [Felvtalk] Why Are You Keeping This Cat Alive?
One of the strangest problems I face with my FeLv+ and FIV+ cats is going to
the vet for a simple health issue. I bring in a fat, sleek cat with a URI and
the vet asks me, in the course of treatment "Is this one of your FeLv+ or FIV+
cats?" Well, I have to say yes because we are at the doctor's office and it's
not good to hide medical facts from your cat's doctor, right? And most of the
time, even though the vet knows my opinion on cats who have these two
disorders, the cat is viewed as different from another cat with a URI or
diarrhea, or whatever simple issue the cat is going through and several times I
have gotten a lecture of the This Is The Beginning Of The End type along with
the antibiotic shot or whatever the protocol was for the actual issue. I find
this annoying and frightening because I feel that my special needs cats are
being treated as hopeless and perhaps are being given less appropriate
treatment than my regular cats. Has
> anyone noticed this problem with their feline health care provider? There
>is one vet who I used for 15 years until I moved 50 miles away that never did
>this and never made me feel that I was selfishly keeping a sick cat alive. I
>would bring in my FIV+ and FeLv+ kits and he would treat them the same way he
>would treat the others. Even when I would tell him that Wally or Sugar or
>whoever, was FIV+ or Taco was FeLv+ he would say, "Yes, I know. I did the
>test, remember? But this is just an upper respiratory infection." and that
>would be it. Shot given, pills prescribed, bill paid. I wish all vets were
>like that.
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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