[Felvtalk] For all the kind souls who care so much

[Amani Oakley]

Hi Randy

Thank you for your kind comments. I think that we came together in this forum because all of us were really fed up with the fact that most of us encountered vets who immediately tell us to put down our FeLV cats. I personally have vented many times in emails, about the extreme difficulty most folks are encountering when asking for a Winstrol prescription (it’s a LONG story), and vets often refuse to prescribe it because of a concern that it MAY cause liver problems. So, bizarrely enough, they are soooo concerned about our cats’ well-being, that they would rather have them dead than subject them to a potential side-effect. Make sense???

All of us in this group are dedicated to trying to find a solution, rather than a knee-jerk response of putting down the cat. But yeah, I too encounter folks everywhere who think I am coo-coo for coco puffs!

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Randy Henke
Sent: December-15-16 10:22 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: [Felvtalk] For all the kind souls who care so much

I am new to this mailing list, our precious cat, Curly, having been just recently diagnosed with FELV but already quite sick twice and just beginning to rally (fingers crossed) from her second bout with severe anemia and leukopenia.

I just wanted to say how much I admire every one of you here who go to such great lengths for their pets, nursing them back from the brink time and again, spending hundreds or thousands of dollars for treatment after treatment to give them as much time with us as we possibly can.

My wife and I are both surrounded by friends and co-workers who think we are fools for caring so much about an animal. They ask why we are so melancholy and then look at us with disbelief when we tell them the reason. Their philosophy is to take good care of their pets but when they get seriously ill, it's time to put them down and move on.

To me, such thinking could only come from cold, heartless and selfish individuals. Sometimes I actually envy them because life would be so much easier if I could think like they do. But I can't and I won't. Just because a family member has four legs instead of two doesn't diminish their worth nor does it detract from their will to live. We do them an egregious disservice by shortening their lives when there are still viable options on the table that can provide additional months or even weeks of quality life.

The devotion and empathy that you people have for your cats is so touching to me that I am sitting here right now crying.

God bless every one of you.
Randy

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