Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-24 Thread catatonya
That's great news!! tonya Angela Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To all who have hellped me thru this day... Thank you for your support and encouraging words. We just got back from the Vet's office, with Ripley and Sherman, the SNAP test came back NEG!! We are going to retest in 3 m

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-24 Thread catatonya
ginal Message ----- From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Dear Susan, Thank you for your email. I think Boy had felv+. Everything happened so fast last night that the only thing I heard was &q

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-22 Thread glenda Goodman
Angela, What wonderful news! It made my day! Please stick around and keep learning from these guys. There is usually something helpful every day or two that makes us better cat parents...Although you have 3-months before a retesting and everything will probably be just dandy, there is nothing wron

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Marylyn
ukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Susan, Boy was not good, at all, last night. He went down hill very fast. He was fine last Thursday, then Friday we moved, I thought he just was scared. I left him alone on Friday and really started to

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Susan Dubose
From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me To all who have hellped me thru this day... Thank you for your support and encouraging words. We just got back from the Vet's office, with Ripley a

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Sally Davis
Hi Angela That is great news. I decided not to retest my kitties bc they were all equally exposed and the expense of testing 9 cats again. I had higher than usual positives. My thought is that I had a pretty virulent strain of FeLV as I had a 25% tested positive. All the remaining cats have been v

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread laurieskatz
: Re: Please talk to me To all who have hellped me thru this day... Thank you for your support and encouraging words. We just got back from the Vet's office, with Ripley and Sherman, the SNAP test came back NEG!! We are going to retest in 3 months. The Vet said the only differen

RE: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Rosenfeldt, Diane
gela Lewis Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:37 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Please talk to me To all who have hellped me thru this day... Thank you for your support and encouraging words. We just got back from the Vet's office, with Ripley and Sherman, the SNAP test came ba

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Angela Lewis
To all who have hellped me thru this day... Thank you for your support and encouraging words. We just got back from the Vet's office, with Ripley and Sherman, the SNAP test came back NEG!! We are going to retest in 3 months. The Vet said the only difference in the 2 tests (SNAP verse

Re: Please talk to me/Angela

2007-08-21 Thread wendy
r has!" ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ - Original Message From: Angela Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:22:26 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Susan, Boy was not good, at all, last night. He went down hill very fast. He was fin

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Sally Davis
HI Angela This sounds exactly like what happened to my Pumpkin. What may be different is that Pumpkins was hiding the fact he was not eating. Although I did figure it out. His gums were exactly as you described he spent two nights at the vet hospital with fluids and IV Baytril. He crashed the seco

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Susan Dubose
- From: "Kelley Saveika" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me The SNAP test is an inhouse test. The IFA test is a test sent out to a lab. Here is some info from the AAFP: http://www.vin.com/mainpub/feline/aaf

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Kelley Saveika
Trajan Tennent > > > > > - Original Message - > From: Angela Lewis > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:22 PM > Subject: Re: Please talk to me > > Susan, > Boy was not good, at all, last night. He went down

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Angela Lewis
- Original Message - From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Susan, Boy was not good, at all, last night. He went down hill very fast. He was fine last Thursday, then Friday we moved,

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Tracy Weese
you did the right thing he was ready to go - Original Message - From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: 8/21/2007 2:22:27 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Susan, Boy was not good, at all, last night. He went down hill very fast. He was fine last Thursday, then

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Susan Dubose
Ever guarding with sharpened claws." Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Susan,

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Angela Lewis
Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Dear Susan, Thank you for your email. I think Boy had

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Kelley Saveika
On 8/21/07, Susan Dubose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, it sounds like the vet tested him for felv and he was pos. But that in and of itself means nothing. There are 20% false positives, so there is a 1 in 5 chance the cat wasn't even positive. -- Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat a

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Susan Dubose
om: Tracy Weese To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me If they are otherwise health, DO NOT be forced to put them down simply because they test positive for FeLV. Kittens/Cats can live several years and be healthy even with

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Susan Dubose
Ever guarding with sharpened claws." Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Dear Susan,

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Kelley Saveika
Angela, I think there is some confusion. I'm not sure why you euthanized your cat. Cats should never, ever be PTS just because of a positive FELV test, especially not if it is an in-house SNAP test. FELV is not cancer. It is a virus. There are cancers that FELV+ cats are more likely to get th

Re: Please talk to me~ yes keep vet appt

2007-08-21 Thread laurieskatz
ukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Please talk to me Dear Susan, Thank you for your email. I think Boy had felv+. Everything happened so fast last night that the only thing I heard was "Lukemia" and euth. I have two other kitties that were/are rais

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Tracy Weese
are still healthy and enjoying a quality of life. I know it's sad, I have three cats right now that are dying, two w/FeLV and one with tummy cancer. tracy - Original Message - From: Angela Lewis To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: 8/21/2007 1:42:15 PM Subject: Re: Please ta

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Angela Lewis
Dear Susan, Thank you for your email. I think Boy had felv+. Everything happened so fast last night that the only thing I heard was "Lukemia" and euth. I have two other kitties that were/are raised with Boy. The Vet says they should be checked. Why do this if the cancer is untreatable? I d

Re: Please talk to me

2007-08-21 Thread Susan Dubose
Dear Angela, I am so sorry for your sudden loss. Was it felv+ that you lost your kitty too? Or some other type of cancer? My prayers are w/ you today. Susan J. DuBose >^..^< www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org www.shadowcats.net "As Cleopatra

Re: Please talk to me/Angela

2007-08-21 Thread glenda Goodman
Laurie, I just have a couple questions: Did Squeaky and Stripes have the FeLV virus for many years and survive? If so maybe both were just carriers? The fact Stripes lived to age 16, even with illnesses during that time, is still amazing. As for the heart problems you have been facing: Many years

Re: Please talk to me/Angela

2007-08-21 Thread Angela Lewis
Laurie, Thank you for your encouraging words. Midnight being sick was such a shock! He was the one who would take toys from the other two and play! He was/is absolutely beautiful. I know he is in kitty heaven. I think that when we were in the vets office last night he became visually worse, h

Re: Please talk to me/Angela

2007-08-21 Thread laurieskatz
Angela, I am so sorryfor your loss, your pain and the uncertaintyI unexpectedly lost Keisha 5 weeks ago. I didn't even know she was sick (not feline leukemia+). Now another of mine has a similar heart problem (not related and not contagious)somedays I am overwhelmed...I try to know t

Re: Please talk to me/Angela

2007-08-21 Thread TatorBunz
Angela, I'm so sorry to hear about your boy. Had he been re-tested recently for Felv? Normally, it is the secodary illnesses that take our Felv kids. Such as different cancers. Due to their weak immune systems. Did he have a biopsy done prior indicate what kind of cancer he had? How old was