[Felvtalk] 5 leukemia positive kittens

[Marsha]

Kelly, now *I'm* confused.  I don't want anything.  I was just sharing 
my personal experiences and putting some suggestions out there.  Some of 
the resources you or others may already know about, but others might be 
new to some people.  Feel free to list your Facebook resources so people 
here are aware of those too.   Or maybe you were really replying to the 
same person I was replying to?

Idea for everyone:  make up a flyer with some basic info about FeLV, 
with a picture of one or more or your FeLV+ cats looking happy and 
living the good life.  Maybe put a link on the flyer to 
felineleukemia.org or other resource(s).  Distribute the flyer to local 
vet offices for when the vet gets a client with a cat that tests 
positive.  The vet could show the flyer to the owner so that the owner 
can see that there is support available, and that FeLV+ cats can live a 
happy life for a variable number of years.

Marsha

On 11/14/2014 1:00 PM, Kelley S wrote:
> There are some other places to list on Facebook, if you would like the 
> links.  One thing that struck me when I read your post was confusion 
> on my part as to what exactly you wanted.  It seemed to me reading it, 
> and I may be reading things into this, that you did not want the 
> kittens to go to a home with FELV+ cats in there already.   That, in 
> addition to the adoption fee, is going to make it *almost* impossible 
> to ever find these kittens a home (nothing is 100% impossible of 
> course).  Also, once you adopt the kitten out, you don't have control 
> over what the adopters do later.  They may bring in FELV+ cats later.  
> My heart kitty died of heart disease brought on by a congenital 
> defect.  I spent a lot of time holding her and crying because she was 
> going to die.  They are all going to die, we hope after many years in 
> a happy home.  I spent more time mourning her death than I did 
> celebrating her life.  This was  a grave mistake on my part.
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com 
> <mailto:martia at lynxe.com>> wrote:
>
>     Some adopters may make a donation to the organization they adopt a
>     zero-fee cat from.  I did.  You might make a cat low or no fee,
>     but say, "donations gratefully accepted".  If you list on
>     PetFinder, consider adding FeLV+ to the heading, besides just
>     listing them as "special needs".  Some people are looking
>     specifically for a FeLV+ cat as a companion for one they already
>     have, and not putting that in the heading forces those people to
>     sift through every special needs listing to find the FeLV+ kitty. 
>     I turned to PetFinder after having no luck locally finding a
>     companion for Harley, and did a search by zip code.  I specified
>     "up to 100 miles", and that's how I found Brock.  Actually, 113
>     miles away, but the search goes by zip code.
>
>     There are also some listings here (up for adoption or looking to
>     adopt FeLV, FIV, FIP +):
>     http://www.bemikitties.com/felv/cgi-bin/suite/classifieds/classifieds.cgi
>     You can also get to that by the felineleukemia.org
>     <http://felineleukemia.org> website.
>
>     One other place to list is the PurringPixie yahoo group.
>

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