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<p>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.<br>
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Lorrie<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/2016 04:55 AM, Amani Oakley
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi
Randy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Amani
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
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lang="EN-US"> Felvtalk
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:felvtalk-bounces@felineleukemia.org">mailto:felvtalk-bounces@felineleukemia.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Randy Henke<br>
<b>Sent:</b> December-15-16 10:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org">felvtalk@felineleukemia.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Felvtalk] For all the kind souls who care
so much<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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The devotion and empathy that you people have for your
cats is so touching to me that I am sitting here right now
crying.<br>
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God bless every one of you.<o:p></o:p></p>
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