Posted on 11/14/2014 7:06:15 PM PST by Yosemitest
My deepest condolences. But, for the rest of us, another good reason for our cats to be 100% indoor cats.
I’m so sorry, Slings. God bless.
Very hard to see them go downhill and not be able to help them.
You will see him again.
I lost my little friend Pumpkin to old age yesterday. I had 2 from 1997 and 3 from 1998. Just one left now, and I am not sure how long he will hold out. It is sad to see them get old. It reminds us of our own mortality.
I’m so sorry.
Please let us know how the others are doing.
So sad, Yosemitest, Sam sounded like a very great cat and I know you will miss him.
I get worried that my large male cat refuses to go outdoors, but maybe he knows something I don’t know...
We lost our tabby cat, Slinker at 8 years of lymphoma. No one could figure out
how he got it. We have his ashes sitting next to his best buddy’s, who passed at
the age of 16 on October 21, 2014. RIP, Lucas, reunited with Slinker at last.
They were both adopted as kittens, and Lucas never got over Slinker’s demise.
And I’m struggling with losing Lucas.
My condolences, I know what it is like to lost our furry feline friends and it is very hard. I have two cats,Spunky, she is 14 and Rascal, he is 7. We took Spunky in with three kittens she had in 2001 and all the kittens have passed from illness but I still have Mom left.
Are any of your others showing symptoms?
Wow, that is very few symptoms for feline leukemia, I think. Hopefully he wasn’t very infectious then!
I will be praying your other furbabies are ok.
I understand about the tight budget. We will be quitting ‘feeding the beast’ next year - will be living a simple life, paying hardly anything in taxes if we can help it, and will wait for it all the collapse about our ears. Doing a budget to see how much income we need really opened my eyes to how much I am spending on my pets, between health care and premium food (2 cats have digestive issues). We will get down to one-two pets, through attrition. Anything more is just too costly.
I am so sorry. My male Siamese cat died of it when it first came out years ago. He and an outside cat I think exchanged mouth fluids through a screen window. It is a horrible disease. He died in my arms shortly at the vets and there was nothing I could do and my cats were not outside cats. I have made sure since they have no contact with any cat but the ones on the inside.
You did the right thing because it would have been a horrible death. We just didn’t know what it was at that time. The vet had his suspicions; but until he did an autopsy; even he wasn’t for sure.
Thanks.
That’s a scary thought. Because you’ll never know if it happens again. We had a possum in our backyard for a while, eating the cat food and avocados. The same thing could have happened.
In a wee bit of Goodling, I don’t pick up that possums can get feline leukemia. I’m sure others here would know more...
Just found this:
“FeLV is specific to members of the cat family and does not pose a risk to other species of animals or people.”
On
http://www.vcahospitals.com/main/pet-health-information/article/animal-health/feline-leukemia-virus-disease-complex/106
Please don’t agitate yourself. You’re doing exactly what I would do, try to figure out how I could’ve prevented it. You’ve had enough heartache and are doing what you can to protect your other cats. Try to pray and find some peace in the calm moments ;)
I’m so sorry to hear of your loss.
In the 1980s I had a cat named Skooz, who was my best buddy. One Friday in September, he crawled into the closet (where he used to go when he was sick or was recovering from a fight — in spite of his smallish size, Skooz was a fighter).
I knew something was wrong when he refused to come out and had trouble breathing. Monday morning, I took him to the vet to see what was up.
That evening, I buried him in the backyard.
It was Feline Leukemia. It hit hard and fast. I mourned more than anyone should mourn over the passing of a cat.
I chose my screen name after him.
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