Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6
Kat, I will write you in detail later about the ceramic heaters. We are using a public computer. Sandy devastated our area - No electric for 11 days and still no phone or internet. Dot, You are VERY welcome for the check. Thanks for the update. Lorrie From: Kathryn Green katsk...@gmail.com To: dot winkler venus7ora...@yahoo.com Cc: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6 Hi Lorrie - Can you tell me more about those ceramic reptile bulbs/heaters and where to get them? Could i use them for my two rescue dogs? They are in an outside kennel with a dog door into a 10 x 10 kennel in the garage but Ohio winters can get cold so I would like to heat one of their inside dog houses if I could. Heating whole garage isn't an option. Thanx Kat dot winkler venus7ora...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Lorrie - I received your check in the mail. Thank you, thank you so much and to everyone who helped out. Tiger was taken to the vet. He was given to my sis in law but her ceiling caved in with the storm and shingles blown off her roof so she gave him back to me temporarily. He has a cold, (he is fev pos) and is having a hard time throwing it off. I have a eucalyptus mister in my room that I run twice a day for him. He is on anti b for the stomatitis which his mouth is much, much better. he is gaining weight and i give him Lysine 500/day. So Tiger is a success story, and I hope his cold clears up soon. Goldie has not yet been captured. He is still not well. Any tips on the cold? He is congested, but not in the eyes. Only in the nose and sinuses. It was thoughtful again Lorrie to receive your check. The card was cute. The Farmingdale colony are doing okay and weathered the storm safely. Thanks, Dot From: Lorrie felineres...@frontier.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] STORM Dot, Sounds like you have a super good husband. Mine is too. He built me feral shelters for one of my feral colonies, and since we have so many cats at home he built me heated, thermostatically controlled sleeping boxes in our garage for the 3 outside cats. They have a cat flap into the garage, and they go into one of the three heated boxes thru a cat flap too. THey have a large window to look out of and a warm blanket inside their box as well as the heat. I use those ceramic reptile heaters that give out heat but no light. They screw in like a light bulb and give out heat but not light. They seem to last forever as I've used them 8 or 10 years now. They are expensive - about $20. each but are worth it and they won't break or shatter like a light bulb would, tho a light bulb can be used if you don't have the ceramic heater. I think your cats will be okay with what you've prepared for them. Please let us know how they are when the storm passes. BTW, I mailed your check Saturday so you should get it early this week, if mail is delivered. Lorrie On 10-28, dot winkler wrote: I am in Freehold, NJ. Inland So, you are in New York? Or is that near Long Island? Do you have any outdoor colonies? My hub over the last year has built small dog house type shelters (he is a carpenter) with tarping on the rooves. They are surrounded by tee pee pallets piled on each other. Then covered in tarping or plastic stapled on with his staple gun. There are piles of furniture dumped in the area and some of the houses are within those, protected. There are 2 dry feed stations we just filled tonight. I just still am very worried. Hoping they will be okay. What experiences have you had with storms and the cats? ___ 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___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6 - Scents and other chemicals
I am fostering one of my former colony cats. My friend is now feeding the colony, which was hers to begin with but since I moved out of the county and live 35 miles away, she has had to take back the care of the 7 colonies with which I was helping her. Desi, the cat I am now fostering has lost a lot of weight. My friend took him to the vet and the cat has tested positive for FeLv. His PCV test is at 10 and the vet doesn't hold out much hope for long term survival. In addition, the vet felt a small mass near the cat's liver. However, what's puzzling is that Desi is still eating, still grooming, his fur is shiny like a healthy cat. His eyes were clear and bright last night but had a little gunk on one cheek this morning. But they are still wide and bright and he doesn't seem to be in any discomfort or pain. One thing though is that he's weak. He walks slowly and sits down after a few steps but then he gets up, rubs against me and then sits again. His belly is large but i can feel his backbone when I stroke him. When I knew him as a street cat, he was plump and active and mischievous. I have known him since he was a half grown kitten. He was one of many black cats born to a black feral mom cat in the colony but he was friendly to me and my rescue partner. When we got them neutered, we did not test them for anything because we don't have money for that. Desi is about 4 years old. The colony hangs out at an office park. I'm wondering if there's any way short of a transfusion to deal with his anemia. I'm giving him Nutra Ved vitamins daily, .5 cc. twice a day. I can't afford the transfusion and with a leukemia positive cat I don't feel it would be wise or that any vet would be willing to do that. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6
Dot, Please don't use essential oils, even as aromatherapy, on cats, as it's unclear, lacking as they do the liver enzymes that we have, whether or not they can metabolize the toxins in them. Just putting him in a steamy bathroom (in a carrier, so he won't jump into the tub---learned this the very hard way) twice or three times a day for 20 minutes and he should be good. Also, 250 mg of Vitamin C (or up to loose stools, then back off) would help with the congestion, as would N-A-C (Acetyl Cysteine, Acétyl Cystéine, Acetylcysteine, Acétylcystéine, Chlorhydrate de Cystéine, Cysteine, Cystéine, Cysteine Hydrochloride, Cystine, Hydrochlorure de Cystéine, L-Cysteine, L-Cystéine, L-Cysteine HCl, L-Cystéine HCl, NAC), which is really great at getting congestion out of the lungs (among many other things). I've had kits clear up really fast with the latter. Kathy * * On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:09 PM, dot winkler venus7ora...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Lorrie - I received your check in the mail. Thank you, thank you so much and to everyone who helped out. Tiger was taken to the vet. He was given to my sis in law but her ceiling caved in with the storm and shingles blown off her roof so she gave him back to me temporarily. He has a cold, (he is fev pos) and is having a hard time throwing it off. I have a eucalyptus mister in my room that I run twice a day for him. He is on anti b for the stomatitis which his mouth is much, much better. he is gaining weight and i give him Lysine 500/day. So Tiger is a success story, and I hope his cold clears up soon. Goldie has not yet been captured. He is still not well. Any tips on the cold? He is congested, but not in the eyes. Only in the nose and sinuses. It was thoughtful again Lorrie to receive your check. The card was cute. The Farmingdale colony are doing okay and weathered the storm safely. Thanks, Dot -- *From:* Lorrie felineres...@frontier.com *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org *Sent:* Monday, October 29, 2012 6:40 AM *Subject:* Re: [Felvtalk] STORM Dot, Sounds like you have a super good husband. Mine is too. He built me feral shelters for one of my feral colonies, and since we have so many cats at home he built me heated, thermostatically controlled sleeping boxes in our garage for the 3 outside cats. They have a cat flap into the garage, and they go into one of the three heated boxes thru a cat flap too. THey have a large window to look out of and a warm blanket inside their box as well as the heat. I use those ceramic reptile heaters that give out heat but no light. They screw in like a light bulb and give out heat but not light. They seem to last forever as I've used them 8 or 10 years now. They are expensive - about $20. each but are worth it and they won't break or shatter like a light bulb would, tho a light bulb can be used if you don't have the ceramic heater. I think your cats will be okay with what you've prepared for them. Please let us know how they are when the storm passes. BTW, I mailed your check Saturday so you should get it early this week, if mail is delivered. Lorrie On 10-28, dot winkler wrote: I am in Freehold, NJ. Inland So, you are in New York? Or is that near Long Island? Do you have any outdoor colonies? My hub over the last year has built small dog house type shelters (he is a carpenter) with tarping on the rooves. They are surrounded by tee pee pallets piled on each other. Then covered in tarping or plastic stapled on with his staple gun. There are piles of furniture dumped in the area and some of the houses are within those, protected. There are 2 dry feed stations we just filled tonight. I just still am very worried. Hoping they will be okay. What experiences have you had with storms and the cats? ___ 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 -- Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster bottle baby shelter animal, to save their life. Contact your local pound for information. http://www.laanimalservices.com/volunteer_fostercare.htm If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and to free up cage space. Ask your local animal pound to start saving over 90% of their intake by implementing the No Kill Equation: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/no-kill-equation/http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/ Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities: http://www.no-killnews.com/ (see the right sidebar) Legislate better animal pound conditions: http://www.rescue50.org More fun
Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6 - Scents and other chemicals
Oh, I didn't see that you were using eucalyptus oil. I never use any scents around cats or around myself. Most scents are made from chemicals that smell like whatever. Essential oils are more natural but they can be harmful to humans and animals. Cats are especially sensitive to oils or incense. As Kat said, just turn on the hot water, steam up the bathroom and take your boy and his stuffy nose in for a nice breath of fresh, unscented steam. Anything vaporized tends to go right into the system, in humans and animals so no scents, bath oils, anything. Just a tub with steamy water and kitty in a carrier so he won't take a bath. Another warning is not to use scented laundry detergent to wash cat quilts, cat beds, even your own bedding etc.. They hate anything that doesn't smell like cat and will possibly pee on your or their bedding to take away the stink that humans call perfume. Scented cat litter is usually a no-no also. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! From: Kathryn Hargreaves khargrea...@gmail.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6 Dot, Please don't use essential oils, even as aromatherapy, on cats, as it's unclear, lacking as they do the liver enzymes that we have, whether or not they can metabolize the toxins in them. Just putting him in a steamy bathroom (in a carrier, so he won't jump into the tub---learned this the very hard way) twice or three times a day for 20 minutes and he should be good. Also, 250 mg of Vitamin C (or up to loose stools, then back off) would help with the congestion, as would N-A-C (Acetyl Cysteine, Acétyl Cystéine, Acetylcysteine, Acétylcystéine, Chlorhydrate de Cystéine, Cysteine, Cystéine, Cysteine Hydrochloride, Cystine, Hydrochlorure de Cystéine, L-Cysteine, L-Cystéine, L-Cysteine HCl, L-Cystéine HCl, NAC), which is really great at getting congestion out of the lungs (among many other things). I've had kits clear up really fast with the latter. Kathy On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:09 PM, dot winkler venus7ora...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Lorrie - I received your check in the mail. Thank you, thank you so much and to everyone who helped out. Tiger was taken to the vet. He was given to my sis in law but her ceiling caved in with the storm and shingles blown off her roof so she gave him back to me temporarily. He has a cold, (he is fev pos) and is having a hard time throwing it off. I have a eucalyptus mister in my room that I run twice a day for him. He is on anti b for the stomatitis which his mouth is much, much better. he is gaining weight and i give him Lysine 500/day. So Tiger is a success story, and I hope his cold clears up soon. Goldie has not yet been captured. He is still not well. Any tips on the cold? He is congested, but not in the eyes. Only in the nose and sinuses. It was thoughtful again Lorrie to receive your check. The card was cute. The Farmingdale colony are doing okay and weathered the storm safely. Thanks, Dot From: Lorrie felineres...@frontier.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] STORM Dot, Sounds like you have a super good husband. Mine is too. He built me feral shelters for one of my feral colonies, and since we have so many cats at home he built me heated, thermostatically controlled sleeping boxes in our garage for the 3 outside cats. They have a cat flap into the garage, and they go into one of the three heated boxes thru a cat flap too. THey have a large window to look out of and a warm blanket inside their box as well as the heat. I use those ceramic reptile heaters that give out heat but no light. They screw in like a light bulb and give out heat but not light. They seem to last forever as I've used them 8 or 10 years now. They are expensive - about $20. each but are worth it and they won't break or shatter like a light bulb would, tho a light bulb can be used if you don't have the ceramic heater. I think your cats will be okay with what you've prepared for them. Please let us know how they are when the storm passes. BTW, I mailed your check Saturday so you should get it early this week, if mail is delivered. Lorrie On 10-28, dot winkler wrote: I am in Freehold, NJ. Inland So, you are in New York? Or is that near Long Island? Do you have any outdoor colonies? My hub over the last year has built small dog house type shelters (he is a carpenter) with tarping on the rooves. They are surrounded by tee pee pallets piled on each other. Then covered in tarping or plastic stapled on with his staple gun. There are piles of furniture dumped in the area and some of the houses are within those, protected. There are 2 dry feed stations we just filled
Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6
Hi Lorrie - I received your check in the mail. Thank you, thank you so much and to everyone who helped out. Tiger was taken to the vet. He was given to my sis in law but her ceiling caved in with the storm and shingles blown off her roof so she gave him back to me temporarily. He has a cold, (he is fev pos) and is having a hard time throwing it off. I have a eucalyptus mister in my room that I run twice a day for him. He is on anti b for the stomatitis which his mouth is much, much better. he is gaining weight and i give him Lysine 500/day. So Tiger is a success story, and I hope his cold clears up soon. Goldie has not yet been captured. He is still not well. Any tips on the cold? He is congested, but not in the eyes. Only in the nose and sinuses. It was thoughtful again Lorrie to receive your check. The card was cute. The Farmingdale colony are doing okay and weathered the storm safely. Thanks, Dot From: Lorrie felineres...@frontier.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] STORM Dot, Sounds like you have a super good husband. Mine is too. He built me feral shelters for one of my feral colonies, and since we have so many cats at home he built me heated, thermostatically controlled sleeping boxes in our garage for the 3 outside cats. They have a cat flap into the garage, and they go into one of the three heated boxes thru a cat flap too. THey have a large window to look out of and a warm blanket inside their box as well as the heat. I use those ceramic reptile heaters that give out heat but no light. They screw in like a light bulb and give out heat but not light. They seem to last forever as I've used them 8 or 10 years now. They are expensive - about $20. each but are worth it and they won't break or shatter like a light bulb would, tho a light bulb can be used if you don't have the ceramic heater. I think your cats will be okay with what you've prepared for them. Please let us know how they are when the storm passes. BTW, I mailed your check Saturday so you should get it early this week, if mail is delivered. Lorrie On 10-28, dot winkler wrote: I am in Freehold, NJ. Inland So, you are in New York? Or is that near Long Island? Do you have any outdoor colonies? My hub over the last year has built small dog house type shelters (he is a carpenter) with tarping on the rooves. They are surrounded by tee pee pallets piled on each other. Then covered in tarping or plastic stapled on with his staple gun. There are piles of furniture dumped in the area and some of the houses are within those, protected. There are 2 dry feed stations we just filled tonight. I just still am very worried. Hoping they will be okay. What experiences have you had with storms and the cats? ___ 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
Re: [Felvtalk] STORM/REPLY LORRIE, 11/6
Hi Lorrie - Can you tell me more about those ceramic reptile bulbs/heaters and where to get them? Could i use them for my two rescue dogs? They are in an outside kennel with a dog door into a 10 x 10 kennel in the garage but Ohio winters can get cold so I would like to heat one of their inside dog houses if I could. Heating whole garage isn't an option. Thanx Kat dot winkler venus7ora...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Lorrie - I received your check in the mail. Thank you, thank you so much and to everyone who helped out. Tiger was taken to the vet. He was given to my sis in law but her ceiling caved in with the storm and shingles blown off her roof so she gave him back to me temporarily. He has a cold, (he is fev pos) and is having a hard time throwing it off. I have a eucalyptus mister in my room that I run twice a day for him. He is on anti b for the stomatitis which his mouth is much, much better. he is gaining weight and i give him Lysine 500/day. So Tiger is a success story, and I hope his cold clears up soon. Goldie has not yet been captured. He is still not well. Any tips on the cold? He is congested, but not in the eyes. Only in the nose and sinuses. It was thoughtful again Lorrie to receive your check. The card was cute. The Farmingdale colony are doing okay and weathered the storm safely. Thanks, Dot -- *From:* Lorrie felineres...@frontier.com *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org *Sent:* Monday, October 29, 2012 6:40 AM *Subject:* Re: [Felvtalk] STORM Dot, Sounds like you have a super good husband. Mine is too. He built me feral shelters for one of my feral colonies, and since we have so many cats at home he built me heated, thermostatically controlled sleeping boxes in our garage for the 3 outside cats. They have a cat flap into the garage, and they go into one of the three heated boxes thru a cat flap too. THey have a large window to look out of and a warm blanket inside their box as well as the heat. I use those ceramic reptile heaters that give out heat but no light. They screw in like a light bulb and give out heat but not light. They seem to last forever as I've used them 8 or 10 years now. They are expensive - about $20. each but are worth it and they won't break or shatter like a light bulb would, tho a light bulb can be used if you don't have the ceramic heater. I think your cats will be okay with what you've prepared for them. Please let us know how they are when the storm passes. BTW, I mailed your check Saturday so you should get it early this week, if mail is delivered. Lorrie On 10-28, dot winkler wrote: I am in Freehold, NJ. Inland So, you are in New York? Or is that near Long Island? Do you have any outdoor colonies? My hub over the last year has built small dog house type shelters (he is a carpenter) with tarping on the rooves. They are surrounded by tee pee pallets piled on each other. Then covered in tarping or plastic stapled on with his staple gun. There are piles of furniture dumped in the area and some of the houses are within those, protected. There are 2 dry feed stations we just filled tonight. I just still am very worried. Hoping they will be okay. What experiences have you had with storms and the cats? ___ 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
