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

[dlmF]

My vet has never told me to put down my FelV cats. and some of them have 
lived to be 8 or 9 years old and have never been sick. Others have not 
been as fortunate and those I treat until I see that I am only keeping 
them alive and they are suffering. Those poor cats should be put to sleep.

Lorrie

On 12/16/2016 04:55 AM, Amani Oakley wrote:
>
> 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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