That is good news! :) GinaSherry DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Good news this time for our beautiful tortie Joy,she is back with us at the shelter.Her foster was afraid to keep her because of the scare with the ulcers.I am happy to see her.THanks for all the prayers. Sherry Stay in
I am crying tears of joy over your story. What a wonderful name, Gabriel :) Gina Kris Kulak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello Everyone, It's been almost a week without Luna. I still hurt, but have had something wonderful come out of this. I teach, and when I found out last Friday my lit
Lance many prayes to you and Ember. SherryLance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I took Ember in today for a routine check with our allopathic vet. She's been doing really well, though I wasn't sure about her weight. It turned out that she's gained back the weight she lost from her bout with diarrhea e
Lance,
I will be remembering you and Ember in my prayers.
elizabeth
In a message dated 10/23/2006 6:42:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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I took
Ember in today for a routine check with our allopathic vet. She's
been doing really well, though I wasn't sure ab
She is very sick. It started last night. We have a vet appointment at 9:30
locally, can not get an internist appointment. It is not her IBD-- her bowels
are normal. But she has stopped eating, does not want me to touch her (she is
usually all over me) and has that dull sick look in her eyes.
Michelle -- here are
vibes that Lucy feels better and that you can quickly find someone to figure out
what's wrong with her.
Diane R.
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At 05:54 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
Goo thoughts and wishes for health going your way...all day..
Kelly
She is very sick.
It started last night. We have a vet appointment at 9:30 locally, can not
get an internist appointment. It is not her IBD-- her bowels are normal.
But she has stopped eating,
I will be thinking, and praying for you both.
Dede
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> vet appointment at 9:30
> locally, can not get an internist appointment. It is
> not her IBD-- her bowels
> are normal. But she has stopped eating, does not
Oh Michelle, my thoughts and prayers are with you and sweet Lucy. Hope you can get her to take something gentle, like kitty acidolphilus or slippery elm or whatever. Liver shake? Interferon?GloriaOn Oct 24, 2006, at 7:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She is very sick. It started last night. We h
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Dear
Kris, I'm so sorry. Please know you're in my thoughts as you grieve for your
sweet Luna. It's ok to cry and cry and let it all out.
Everyone's different, but picking up on
what you say here I know it's also helped me when the pain of loss seemed
overwhelming to remember
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Michelle, sending healing vibes for your
sweet Lucy. I think you must be at the vet now. Please keep us posted when you
get time.
hugs to you and Lucy, Kerry
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Sending healing vibes for Ember, Lance. Was your allopathic vet able to
make recommendations?
big hugs for Ember,
Kerry
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prayers and GLOW going out for the two of you. Barb+Smoky the House Puma+El Bandito Malito"My cat the clown: paying no mind to whom he should impress. Merely living his life, doing what pleases him, and making me smile." - Anonymous
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Hey guys,
I belong to the yahoo hyper-T group as well (for
Julie), and we recently had a very strange experience
with this weird guy. He joined the group and made
friends for a week or so. He seemed very legitimate
and concerned about his cat. Then he started writing
strange things, and ended u
I hadn't gotten to all posts either so I might be offf on some things; first of all my condolences on Mishka 's passing. Your loving care and big hopes surely made her short life a good one and you'll see her again. I noticed "all she wants to do is sleep" post. I've a rescue that we including
Kris,
I have worked in Education now for 13 years. Your
story made me smile and brought tears to my eyes. I
know how wonderful these precious children can be.
And I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the name you picked for your new
furbaby. Gabriel. I like the way it sounds, and the
reason you picked it even m
Corona virus is highly contagious through
feces and saliva… and it’s very common for cats to have – but
FIP is not contagious.
From:
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Behalf Of marta gasper
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
8:51 AM
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I want to add that the lab that did the screening on Dukee said
he had the Feline Corona Virusgo figure. Yet they say he isn't or is
positive for FIP.
I'm really screwed up now... :(
In a message dated 10/24/2006 7:54:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Coron
marta, FIP is currently considered to be a mutated corona virus--so
the corona virus is contagious (they estimate something like 80-90% of
cats in a multi-cat environment will have been exposed to it and show
a high titre--roughly the same percentage of humans will show a titre,
too, as the corona
Well, she has a fever of 104.5, and her nose has started running a bit. So
the vet put her on Clavamox, and I gave her fluids and force-fed her some baby
food with lysine in it. I also ordered Immuno-regulin to be expressed mailed to
me, and my vet said he will give her the IV shot when it co
Someone on this list had the same thing with low white blood cell count,
and she said that Immuno-regulin brought it back up. I am almost positive
that is what she said brought it up, anyway. She wrote about it many
months after the fact and the wbc was still normal.
You can order Immun
see my other post--as others have said, the only real way to diagnose
FIP is post-morten. the titre test proves nothing more than that the
cat has been exposed to one of the many corona virii--and a cat can
have a very high corona titre one week because there's a new uri in
the house, and a normal
It sounds very much like the guy who was on the FIV list for a while either last year or early this year. wendy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey guys,I belong to the yahoo hyper-T group as well (forJulie), and we recently had a very strange experiencewith this weird guy. He joined the group and mad
Of course, now Lucy has diarrhea too. I do not know if it is because
I gave her baby food, or because I gave her Lysine (her IBD flaring up) or if it
is just the fever doing it. I was going to cut down on her pred because it can
be counterproductive to fighting an infection or virus, but now
Hi Lance,
I am happy to hear that little Ember has gained back
her weight and is fat and happy! I read what you
wrote about her white blood cell count being low, but
I don't know what that means for Ember. Can you
explain so I'll know what to pray for specifically?
Thanks,
Wendy
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it's true that one of the FIV groups, and another FeLV group had to
change their monitoring/membership criteria because of a problem
poster...
at the site where i've been a chat host for over 6 years, we
occasionally get people who have nothing better to do than mess with
people's heads--most not
Oh Michelle,
I am so sorry to hear this. You and Lucy are in my prayers. Please keep us informed.
elizabeth
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Sent: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 7:54 AM
Subject: urgent--please pray for Lucy
She is very sic
Michelle,
I hope Lucy starts feeling better soon. Both of you
are in my prayers.
Cindy Reasoner
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> Well, she has a fever of 104.5, and her nose has
> started running a bit. So
> the vet put her on Clavamox, and I gave her fluids
> and force-fed her some baby
> f
Good for you Chelsea. Love that little kitty. Kudos
to you for doing all you can for her.
:)
Wendy
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tsunade si feeling better today as she is eating and
> drinking and runnning about. I have not actually
> seen her pee, but I think she had
Michelle,
Prayers going out to little Lucy. I hope she gets to
feeling better soon!
:)
Wendy
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Of course, now Lucy has diarrhea too. I do not know
> if it is because I gave
> her baby food, or because I gave her Lysine (her IBD
> flaring up) or if it is
> just
That would be great; make sure the name of the vet
clinic and the city are included.
:)
Wendy
--- kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:44 AM 10/20/2006, you wrote:
>
>
> would you like me to scan a few invioces and
> forwards them to you
> Kelly
>
>
> >Do you mean expensive or extens
I sent this yesterday, but it never showed up in
my inbox. I sent it off list to Lance, but I haven't heard from him.
Did anyone get this message? I'm going to look through the posts I've
saved on IR and see if I can find the post that Michelle's talking
about. It makes sense that it migh
I'm just catching up with your posts about Lucy. I was feeling a
little better until I got to this one. Your sweet Lucy is such a
delicate flower. I hate to think of forcing more medications on her
and I've got it in my head from somewhere that flagil is an esp harsh
med. Is there any way t
Thanks again MC for another informed and easily understandable post
about a very scary subject. I go around quoting you all the time. I
sent this to Sally Foster, (remember her from the list?). She just lost
another one under a year old, poor thing has lost so many this year.
She suspects t
I got the first post. It seems like the list is kind of srewed up for
almost everyone in terms of what order things show up in and how long they
take. Has anyone told the list owner?
Michelle
In a message dated 10/24/2006 12:19:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I
We don't usually have problems with wackos on this list. Er, well not
this sort of wacko anyway. I know my friends and family consider me a
little wacko, but in a nice wacko sort of way. You do have to be
careful about posting personal info. We sometimes forget that
everything we write to e
My mom asked me the same thing just now-- why I force fed her baby food
rather than blending up her normal turkey diet. I have no idea. I just did not
think of it. I will definitely do that from now on. Thanks.
flagyl actually seems to really help her get over IBD flare-ups. I just
learn
seems to happen a lot in kittens around 6-8 months; after that, i
haven't seen much of a pattern. but since it's a mutation, and i
haven't seen any research on what triggers it, i'm not sure if a
declining immune system makes geriatric kitties more susceptible.
personally, i don't know of any FIP
yeppers! but that's the only way this whole thing works--being there
for one another
(in michigan, there's a small group of us who sort of schedule our
burn-outs/breakdowns, so that at least one of us is coherent and
competent at all times)
On 10/24/06, Nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Okay, I think I found it. Unfortunately it doesn't give us much
information, but it does give a little hope:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Chris)
When my Tucson was first
diagnosed last
year, her white blood cell count was very low. Vet gave her a series
of
immuno-regulin shots & it shot back up. She d
Hi Kris,
This is a beautiful story, so many negative stories about kids these days, this is really heartening. Tell us about the new kitten, what does he look like?
I lost a little kitten four days after bringing her home. I think that it's so hard, because it's so unfair. Our adult cats hurt
Yes, I meant IR, not IM. This isn't the first time your mom and I have
been on the same page :). I'm glad to hear Lucy was rubbing and
purring, that's a good sign. Don't worry about her sleeping more than
usual, she needs her rest, poor little sprite! Do you have "Little
Noses" in the house
Michelle,
You and Lucy are in my thoughts. After all of the fighting that you've done for this sweet girl, I hope that this battle will be in your pocket and behind you shortly.
Leslie
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: urgent--please pray for Lucy
She is very sick. It started last night. We hav
This is just from my own experience so far with
Smokey. The first CBC he had done with the old vet
showed low wbc and platelets. This is when they
decided to test him again for feline leukemia. I
started him on the immuno-regulin and had another CBC
done about a month 1/2 ago and all of his bloo
I do have Little Noses. But her congestion itself is not terrible. I just
mentioned it because it is further evidence that this is a URI. Though I
guess it might be the congestion, rather than the fever, that is making her not
want to eat.
Michelle
In a message dated 10/24/2006 1:03:45
I see it usually in kittens between 5 and 10 months. I have a geriatric cat (18) who remains tough and healthy. I have seen it too much in rescue kittens but so far always those under a year. It seems to be triggered by some stressor, very often -- but not always -- hitting within a month of spa
Hi Marta,
I have a friend in rescue with a kitty that acts the same way as your
Suzette. Marigold seems healthy, test results don't indicate anything,
but she sleeps all the time and doesn't play like other kittens do.
She's about a year old now and hasn't grown out of it or showed any more
I just want to make a plug for Triaminic cold and allergy (the bright
orange one). A friend whose wife is a vet (in HI, alas) recommended to me
a long time ago with Ginger to give .2 (point 2, not 2) ml of this every 8 hours
to help with congestion. It helped a lot with Ginger-- got her eat
Michelle,
Do you know how Lucy got a URI? Is she indoor only? Do you work with other cats?
Just curious, always looking to protect my troublemakers.
Leslie
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: more on Lucy
I do have Little Noses. But her congestion itself is not terrible. I justmentioned it b
She goes outside under our supervision. We have cat fence on the fence tops
to keep them in, but because we live near a road I still get nervous letting
them out without supervision. Plus she hunts if unsupervised.
The weather recently got cold here, and maybe we were not keeping the heat
I just wanted you to know I may be out of touch again. Something screwy
is going on with my email. I just got it working so I can receive
emails again, (I think). I'm pretty upset. Somehow all emails sent and
received have been deleted, including any unopened and previously saved
emails. I
Well, Lucy ate a whole bowl of her turkey and her ears were cooler, so I
took her temp and it is down to 103.1 (from 104.5 this morning and early
afternoon), knock on wood. But she squirmed a lot while I had the
thermometer in her, and I used one of those thin plastic disposable sheaths on
Thank-you very much for the clarification on corona virus and FIP, everybody. **She's just the sweetest little mush pile** that's what S is allright, and she reacts to being moved (ie when I'm cleaning the cage and must remove her bedding I sort of pick her up) not by squirming or tryng to get
Darn. I know how that goes my dear. I'm having multiple problems too. My
PC at home as you know only gets the list email 2-3 times a week and all
out of order. My mac at home that I usually only use in UK, and to which
I turned to last night, sends email but isn't receiving. And, I can't
get on the
Hi Nina,
Thank you for your kind words and the info you looked up. It matches
some of the things I found about low wbc. Unfortunately, my vet
didn't have any sort of recommendation, other than to come back in a
month.
One thing that will likely remind you of a recent post from Michelle
Hi Nina and Cindy,
Thanks for the info and anecdotal experience. I know that my vet uses
IR with dogs. I'm assuming he uses it for the skin problem that is
its "on label" purpose. I'm not sure if he'd go for IR with Ember,
but if we don't see better results in a month, I'm going to press hi
Hi Wendy,
I'm guessing that a persistent low white blood cell count leaves
Ember (or any other animal in that boat) open to infection from
otherwise harmless germs.
Please pray that I'll be guided in the right treatment of Ember to
bring her wbc levels back up... that this isn't a precurs
Lucy will be in my prayers. Take care.
Lance
Leslie, This is just horrible. I am so behind on my mail.. I hope that I read that you have found them! Prayers to you all. tonyaLeslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Please bear with me here in writing this, I didn't know how hard it would be to put into words. I spend my weekends
Lance,
I urge you to address this now. You have a much better chance of
resolving the problem while Ember is still feeling good and eating. It
was good fortune that you had blood work done even though you had no
reason to suspect she was ill. I don't understand why your vet would
tell you t
Kerry, I'm so sorry for your loss of Tom Cat. So sad. At least he had you. I don't know the rhyme or reason either, but I have to believe there is a reason. take care, tNina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh Kerry, how very sad about Tom Cat. You know, his letting you get closer might
I'm way behind on my mail, but let me know how the tests turn out. It sounds like Oreo was exposed, tested positive, and then fought off the virus. If that is the case, then, NO, he won't get it again. Good luck! tKathi Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tonya. I'll try to make this whole
That is great! I hope Beatrix has returned as well. tSherry DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is just awesome..Sending many prayers and good thoughts for Beatrix!!! :)Gary Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LESLIE JUST CALLED, SATCHMO IS BACK! Get your own web addr
Sally, I don't have any advice for you. It sounds like your vet is not so great, and I have no recommendations for vets in that area. Hang in there, and take care of yourself too. tSally Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,Everyday that goes by I am more confused. Junior went to the vet tod
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