<p dir="ltr">My cat Yang who I lost this summer made it to 3 with feline leukemia. She had to have gotten it as a kitten, I adopted her at five months and she hadn't been exposed since entering my care. We didn't know she had it until she had to be put down. It was a terrible shock, but she lived an excellent life up until two days before we put her down.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2014 2:39 PM, "Marsha" <<a href="mailto:martia@lynxe.com">martia@lynxe.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>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? <br>
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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
<a href="http://felineleukemia.org" target="_blank">felineleukemia.org</a> 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.<br>
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Marsha<br>
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On 11/14/2014 1:00 PM, Kelley S wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:15 PM,
Marsha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martia@lynxe.com" target="_blank">martia@lynxe.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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There are also some listings here (up for adoption or
looking to adopt FeLV, FIV, FIP +): <a href="http://www.bemikitties.com/felv/cgi-bin/suite/classifieds/classifieds.cgi" target="_blank">http://www.bemikitties.com/felv/cgi-bin/suite/classifieds/classifieds.cgi</a><br>
You can also get to that by the <a href="http://felineleukemia.org" target="_blank">felineleukemia.org</a>
website.<br>
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One other place to list is the PurringPixie yahoo group.<span><font color="#888888"></font></span><br>
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