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Datajack Franit
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Bologna
Aug 2002
time: 06:31
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My male cat died today 
Yesterday in the late evening he suddendly felt sick and spent all the night staring at the wall and breathing heavily, the next morning my father brought him to the vet who did some exams and found out the reasons too late, months late, somehow he was infected in a catfight and gotten both leukemia and feline HIV, he died while asleep because of severe injures to liver and lungs.. he died while asleep just some hours after receiving first painkiller treatment
I didn't notice what was happening since several weeks, although I'm "glad" there was nothing I could do, not even with an early leukemia vaccination, for HIV by itself is an immediate death sentence, figure out if he had chances of living with leukemia as well... poor guy
Cat owners be careful when you let your cats on the outside, feline HIV and leukemia are both very common diseases which require just a scratch or a bite received from a previously infected cat. Humans are immune from both, but a cat infected with leukemia and/or feline HIV have no more than a couple of years left to live
http://www.catnetwork.com/health.htm
FELINE LEUKEMIA
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Each year, nearly one million cats are killed by Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV). FeLV is the number one cause of death due to infectious disease in cats. It is a retrovirus which replicates in the bone marrow, salivary glands and the cells lining the respiratory tract. The virus is most commonly transmitted through close and prolonged physical contact with an infected cat. The virus can be shed in the blood, urine, feces and most commonly, the saliva and respiratory secretions. A pregnant cat can also pass the virus to her kittens while in the uterus or, later, through nursing and grooming. |
FELINE HIV/AIDS
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In 1986 in Northern California a disease that was causing illness and death in cats was found to be caused by a virus similar to HIV, or the AIDS virus found in humans. There has also been little success in finding methods to treat those cats that have the disease, but we DO know enough about the disease to safeguard our pets from this fatal disorder.
Because of its similarity to the HIV virus, it was named FIV (feline immunodeficiency virus), and the disease it induces is known as FAIDS (feline acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
When a cat does develop illness, the body’s natural defense against disease is broken down. The cat is then susceptible to a great variety of infections, cancers, etc. No one specific symptom is typical. It might be a sickly cat who is not recovering promptly from an illness, or has a chronic illness such as infected teeth or gums, frequent diarrhea or discharge from the nose or eyes. While we do our best to control other infections these cats may acquire, we cannot cure them of the FIV infection, and it is usually fatal.
Many studies are currently investigating exactly how FIV is transmitted cat to cat. The most common method of transmission is through a bite wound inflicted by an infected cat. In this case the virus in its saliva enters the blood stream of the bite victim. Bite wounds, however, are not the only method of transmission and virus-to-blood contact is not always necessary. FIV infected mothers can transmit the virus to their offspring but not in utero. The transmission to offspring probably takes place during nursing, and experts feel the majority of kittens nursing FIV positive mothers don’t get the disease. It is still unknown whether transmission takes place during mating, but since biting can be part of the mating ritual, we have to assume it could. Experimentally scientists have been able to infect cats by giving the virus orally. We don’t know, however, in the natural setting of mutual grooming, sharing food bowls, etc., how often this occurs. It appears that in a setting where one cat in a house is FIV positive and has non-biting contact with other cats, those cats have a low probability of becoming infected |
Keeping cats indoor and cutting males' attributes is the only possible way of prevention, please don't do my mistake and protect your little friends
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Maquiladora
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Your houses smell.
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Maquiladora
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Even the best cat owners dont know their houses stink until you tell them, worse people keep the litter tray in the kitchen of all places.
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:31
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My sympathies for the loss of your family-member and friend.
FIV and feline leukemia are pretty common, and very lethal. I've had all my cats indoors since 1989, when Fridge was mutilated a few days before Halloween (he was a black cat) and needed 360 stitches, drainage tubes, and lots of intervention to put him back together. He died two years later as a result of a blood transfusion in his early critical care, and the DX was FIV. Interestingly, none of the donor cats (mine and his trauma veterinarians, who I'd known for years) ever showed FIV symptoms and they never died from the disease, so apparently healthy cats can act as carriers.
One of the advantages to living south of the border is that "fortress" style houses are easily affordable, and so the cat herd and cat herders (the two dogs) can live "outdoors" - just within our walls and completely isolated from any interaction with other dogs/cats/humans or any other hazard.
The infection rates are pretty low, thankfully - over the years, I've rescued 60-odd stray cats of all ages, and over a dozen stray dogs, and despite their street stray time, Fridge is the only one I've ever had that has died prematurely due to any of the common canine or feline infectious diseases.
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Datajack Franit
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Bologna
Aug 2002
time: 06:31
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MTG- yes, infact the big, yellow cat that probably infected mine is still roaming in the gardens around here, it's very similar to humans, which can carry AIDS and infect people without even knowing because they feel good, for being just un-infected carriers (what kind of horrible, twisted people would hurt animals in THAT way? sorry to hear that )
Azazel- yes, it is. It seems that millions of cats worldwide die each year because of these two diseases
Pekka and others- thx for the kind words, I'm glad I noticed the disease so late because he was able to stay home cozy and purring until his very last hours before being hospitalized, infact it was the antibiotic reaction severely damaging his liver to kill him while asleep, but that prevented him any kind of suffering 
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25-10-2003 06:03
ACK!
) with her rear left leg bearing a NASTY infected open sore. We took her to the vet 2-3 weeks later and got her cleaned up and medicated. That was 11 and a half years ago. She gets yearly check-ups and required vaccinations and has been "as healthy as a horse" ever since.
over comes a lot, but yes..cleaning their catbox and getting the cats "fixed" helps a lot, not completely. but considerably..
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