Sorry to hear about your kitty. I went through a similar thing a few weeks ago when my own kitty passed away. It's very hard! My sympathies. :-(
Jen On Oct 31, 2013 4:50 PM, "Lee Evans" <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote: > She came to me two and a half years ago when she was around 9 months old. > She had been abandoned at an apartment complex, rescued but then tested > FeLv+. She was brought to me to see if she would turn negative. She did! I > kept her anyway because she had a few bad habits, like biting my fingers > when I was sleeping and trying to tear apart my iPod headphones. She was > very mischievous. I named her Bunny because she was brought to me on Easter > Sunday. She has lived with me and two other cats in my bedroom/home office > since that Easter in 2011. About two weeks ago I noticed a change in her > behavior. She no longer pestered Delilah, the resident female cat in the > room and she seemed to lose interest in sleeping on the bed with me and > Samson and Delilah (the two other cats in the room). However she was eating > normally and nothing else seemed out of place. I assumed that it was the > change in the weather from very hot to nice, cool evenings and then to > rain. On Saturday of last week she seemed lethargic. She was not eating her > usual amount of food and not drinking her usual amount of water. I checked > her gums to see if it might be stomatitis or some bad tooth upsetting her > but her gums were very pale and so was her tongue. I immediately thought it > was flea anemia. I took her to the vet on Tuesday because Monday is usually > very busy with dogs there. She was more lethargic and depressed by then and > her appetite had all but disappeared. She was still drinking water. She had > no fleas so I asked the vet to re-test her for FeLv. Sure enough, she was > positive. She had all the classic symptoms of active FeLv. I was heart > broken but still, I asked him to give her some meds to make her more > comfortable and perhaps get back her appetite. He gave her cortisone. > Today, she was no better. She just lay on her towel and couldn't make it to > the litter box although it was just a few steps away. I took her in again > and he gave her some fluids, not too much because he said it would make her > even more anemic. He gave her a little more cortisone to try to kick start > her appetite. I had been syringe feeding her by then. He also gave her a > small dose of Convenia and some B-complex but nothing helped. She passed > several hours after the vet visit. I probably should have had him help her > pass but I just didn't want to give up hope. > > There is a question here, in all this upsetting dialog. My other two cats > who slept with me and Bunny and groomed each other, ate with each other, > drank and used the same litter box are around 7 years old. The vet told me > that once they are into adulthood, they are not as likely to get FeLv as > they would if they were under 2 years old. Is this true? I will have them > tested in about 3 weeks anyway to see what happened, if anything. Also, has > anyone had the experience of a young cat throwing off the virus and turning > negative, then turning positive again after a year, or was that second test > after I had held her in isolation for 4 months a false negative? > > Right now I'm fostering a kitten who has tested negative for FIV/FeLv. She > is several rooms away from where Bunny has lived. They never came in > contact with each other but I have walked from my bedroom into the kitten's > room to feed, clean, etc.. Did I put her at risk? > > This is desperately upsetting. I have decided not to take in any more > fosters with FeLv. I have never had this happen before. Most of my "turned" > cats are still with me and are well into several years of adulthood. I > usually don't have good results with getting turned cats adopted because > most people don't want the possibility that the cat is harboring the > disease. Maybe Bunny had it in her bone marrow and tested negative on the > regular SNAP test. I should have tested with the IFA also but don't have > much money to spare. > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > >
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