| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
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A friend just called me with a sad story. She has a very young
litter of kittens (she breeds Exotics also) and she just lost
a kitten to a very serious upper resp. infection (probably
pneumonia). It has a VERY VERY fast onset, and will totally
overwhelm a tiny kitten in almost a matter of hours or a day.
I now know 3 folks that have seen this problem. If you have
very young kittens, please be aware that this is going around,
and if you see ANY signs of illness in your tiny babies, RUSH
them to the vet for a checkup and medication. This disease,
whatever it is, is deadly and VERY VERY FAST.
Has anyone else seen anything like this recently?
E.T.
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| 3878.1 | WR2FOR::CORDESBRO_JO | set home/cat_max=infinity | Tue Aug 07 1990 20:16 | 7 | |
I lost three kittens in Kaitlin's first litter to pneumonia. They
had caught the upper respiratory infection when they were just two
days old. By two weeks old, I had lost three of the four.
It is fast, and it is deadly.
Jo
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| 3878.2 | something you don't soon forget | PARITY::DENISE | And may the traffic be with you | Fri Aug 10 1990 15:38 | 8 |
Pepper, who I had adopted as a pregnant, homeless teenager, lost 4
of her litter from this kind of a problem. Pnemonia symptoms set in,
and by the time I got them to the vet, (within hours), it was too late.
2 of them died right away, the other 2, I was givem mediction for,and
stayed up diligently taking care of them, but they passed away
overnight. It was just too severe.
Denise
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| 3878.3 | Ugh, it's really nasty! | TOPDOC::TRACHMAN | EmacX Exotics * 264-8298 | Fri Aug 10 1990 16:05 | 3 |
Denise, I'm sorry to hear that. How recently did this happen?
E.
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| 3878.4 | May I boast a success Story? | NRADM::TRIPPL | Wed Sep 26 1990 13:40 | 26 | |
Would I be out of place with a success story here? Hope not 'cause
here it comes anyway.
Back in my "single" days I had Sylvester, who was black and white,
looked and acted like his cartoon namesake. While on vacation I
boarded him and his canine big sister with a vet a now nonexistant
Brighton veterinarian. While he was there I felt the time was right to
have him altered, which they did.
After a week there I picked them up,they seemed ok but by the next
morning I was awakened with the dog coughing and a bloody nose, she had
Kennel cough, and the cat absolutely unable to breath with congestion.
I didn't wait but found myself at the vets (Belmont Animal Hospital)
without an appt by 8am. The dog did well, the bloody nose evidently is
a symptom of kennel cough, but I came very close to loosing Sylvester.
After several ify days of high level anitbiotics and lots of TLC he
recovered slowly, and the end result was that he was anemic for which I
had to bring him daily for 2 weeks for an iron shot. He lived for
several more years, but did himself in by chewing on a plastic coat
hanger, a piece lodged in his intestine and he didn't survive the
surgery. (This is the cat I described in an earlier note, who got even
with me by chomping through phone cords! and thought hard plastic was a
dietary suppliment!)
Lyn
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