Hi Terri,
My personal view is that an animal with a chronic disease (be it diabetes or feline leukemia or whatever) does not need the challenge to their immune system that vaccinations present.
The leukemia vaccine would be of no benefit since they are already presumably positive.
It's more
Hear Hear - what she says - I totally agree! Gloria
On Aug 31, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Julie Johnson wrote:
Hi Terri,
My personal view is that an animal with a chronic disease (be it
diabetes or feline leukemia or whatever) does not need the
challenge to their immune system that vaccinations
I was told by my vet giving a positive the FeLV shot defeats the
purpose of the shot, the cat is positive and the shot is useless. So
everyone but Bailey, who is my positive gets it, Bailey has never gotten it.
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Hi Terri,
Since they already are FeLV+, do not give the FeLV
vaccine. The other vaccines are up to you. Some vets/people feel
they need all of their immune system to fight the FeLV and adding vaccines would
further complicate it ... other vets/people feel the opposite, that they need
the
Hi, Terri, again this become a personal choice, but I follow holistic
medicine very strongly so my opinion is based on the practice - when
animals body is compromised already whether it is with FeLV virus or FIV
virus or any other illness, they recommend that never vaccinate the
animals - their
That is correct, you do NOT want to give them the leukemia vaccine. It is a
pointless
injection, and increases their chance of developing a vaccine associated
injection
site sarcoma. Personally, I don't give FELV vaccines to ANY of my cats, period.
I
follow the new guidelines that say that
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