gentle giants
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I know this is supposed to be for bunnies, but I know people on here care about animals besides bunnies too.
On my uncle's farm, a stray cat showed up about a year ago, and of course she wasn't fixed, and of course she started having kittens. Since this was right around the time that my grandmother was dying, the family just didn't get around to getting her spayed.
Well, there are around a dozen cats and kittens there now. My mom brought home one of the younger ones to get it tested for feline leukemia, and he tested postitive. Mom and I are really sad about it, this little kitten is the sweetest thing you would ever meet. For those of you who don't know about feline leukemia, I will explain a little about it. It kills their immune systems, similar to AIDS. It is passed in the same way as well, by mating or blood transfer, so thanfully it isn't extremely contagious. It is also passed from mother cats to their kittens, which pretty much means that all of these cats have it as they are all from the same mother.
Anyway, my mom is going to catch and bring home one more of them, and get both of them fixed and let them live out whatever time they have here. They usually live around two years or so, sometimes more, sometimes less.
What I am getting down to is this. The rest of these cats will be put to sleep, as there is no way we could afford to spay/neuter and give medical care to all of them. If there is anyone on here who would be willing to take even one of them, it would be one that didn't have to die. I want to make clear in advance, the odds of any of them not having this disease is slim, and like I said they would probably not live past two years old. I had one cat when I was a kid that had this, and he made it to three years old, but the vet was surprised by it.
If anyone would be willing, and I won't blame you if you aren't, please, please pm or email me or post it here and I will pm you.
On my uncle's farm, a stray cat showed up about a year ago, and of course she wasn't fixed, and of course she started having kittens. Since this was right around the time that my grandmother was dying, the family just didn't get around to getting her spayed.
Well, there are around a dozen cats and kittens there now. My mom brought home one of the younger ones to get it tested for feline leukemia, and he tested postitive. Mom and I are really sad about it, this little kitten is the sweetest thing you would ever meet. For those of you who don't know about feline leukemia, I will explain a little about it. It kills their immune systems, similar to AIDS. It is passed in the same way as well, by mating or blood transfer, so thanfully it isn't extremely contagious. It is also passed from mother cats to their kittens, which pretty much means that all of these cats have it as they are all from the same mother.
Anyway, my mom is going to catch and bring home one more of them, and get both of them fixed and let them live out whatever time they have here. They usually live around two years or so, sometimes more, sometimes less.
What I am getting down to is this. The rest of these cats will be put to sleep, as there is no way we could afford to spay/neuter and give medical care to all of them. If there is anyone on here who would be willing to take even one of them, it would be one that didn't have to die. I want to make clear in advance, the odds of any of them not having this disease is slim, and like I said they would probably not live past two years old. I had one cat when I was a kid that had this, and he made it to three years old, but the vet was surprised by it.
If anyone would be willing, and I won't blame you if you aren't, please, please pm or email me or post it here and I will pm you.
