[Felvtalk] 5 leukemia positive kittens

Fri Nov 14 14:05:42 CST 2014

Marsha..sorry..when I said "I don't know what you want" I was referring to
the OP, who if I recall correctly said something along the lines of "we
don't want these cats in with other FELV+ cats if they could possibly be
negative."  So the way I read her post was:  we want people with no cats
who are willing to take the very probable heartbreak of a FELV+ kitten and
promise to not expose it to other FELV+ cats and who will pay us over a
hundred dollars for doing so.  This is possible, but not very likely
IMHO.   Even in our rescue, after a certain point they would eat up over
$100 worth of food and we would be losing money even if we did get $100
plus for them.  More importantly, everyone is limited in space, and an
animal in a foster home means another animal your rescue cannot help.
The facebook group is interesting, and I encourage those on Facebook to
join, not that I want to take traffic away from here, but most are very
very very very stridently against mixing.    I tried to get them to come
here, but haven't had any luck that I know of.  There is a very strange
situation going on there that I'd like to get some input on.  There is a
kitten who has tested (snap and IFA) pos for FELV.  This kitten came from a
breeder who tests all her cats regularly and none has ever tested
positive.  The kitten's owner took the kitten to the vet as per contract
within 10 days of buying the cat and got a positive test.  Rechecked with
IFA, still positive.  ALL THE OTHER CATS were retested by the breeder and
are still negative.  All the other kittens in the litter have tested
negative.  HOW did this kitten contract FELV?

Anyway here is the link:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/26073442228/

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:

>  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> 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 website.
>>
>> One other place to list is the PurringPixie yahoo group.
>>
>
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