Susan, I have had a lot of experience with FelV having a shelter with several FelV cats. I wish I could give you more encouraging news, but if she is at the point of eating litter she is desperately sick. With noregenerative anemia a blood transfusion will only buy her a very small amount of time. The virus is in her bone marrow will be unable to make more red blood cells. This lack of red blood will affect her heart, liver, kidneys and all internal organs as her lungs cannot get enough oxygenated blood to them. It will be a painful death as she deteriorates. I saw one of our FelV cats die like this and I will never allow it to happen again. My advice is to have her euthanized before she gets in this shape. I know it's a terribly difficult, decision, but better too soon that later. Most of the
When kittens are born wth FelV they almost always die, as their immune systems are too immature to fight the virus. My last rescued litter of 4 FelV kittens died at 7 months 9 months 11 months and one made it to a year old. Older cats seem able to fight it off sometimes. Lorrie > From: Susan Loesch <pipercat...@yahoo.com> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:56 PM > Subject: [Felvtalk] newly diagnosed woth non-regenerative anemia > Hello, folks...I haven't had any Felv kitties in a while but now have a > positive who is close to a year old. She was just pulled from a local > shelter...she had begun eating litter and wasn't going to get any vet > care. She had been tested when she came to the shelter a few months ago > and they knew she was positive but no followup care or testing was > done. > We immediately took her to our vet for bloodwork...she is anemic but > not bad enough yet for a transfusion, and the anemia is definitely > non-regenerative. > We think that she was probably born positive...the group of cats she > came in with...30 or so...had a number of positive adults, none > altered. So her life will likely be quite short, and already being > anemic doesn't bode well. > SO...those of you who have dealt with a kitty in this situation...what > do you recommend to give her the best chance at the most quality time? > I have always found that info from this list was better than from vets > who deal only marginally with Felv. > Thank you! _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
