Tony
5/2022 Tony is a FIV/FELV+ kitty who came to us from a rescue
in Tennessee.
The rescues board was pushing to euthanize him because they
felt they had exhausted all options for him. (They had not)
Thankfully for Tony the president of the rescue does not agree
with her board and got involved. She contacted us, drove him
to us from Tennessee and made a donation to help with his care.
He is very friendly to humans, he is not so sure about the cats.
Sponsored by Andrea - Thank you!
Sponsored by Bhavana - Thank you!
Sponsored by Anne - Thank you!
Sponsored by Julia - Thank you!
Sponsored by Mandy - Thank you!
Sponsored by Natalie - Thank you!
Sponsored by Dorothy - Thank you!
We took Tony to the vet Monday running a fever of 104.6 He was
of course hospitalized. Blood work was done, fluids, antibiotics, x-rays
etc. Blood work said something bad was going on with infection or
inflammatory response, his liver values were really funky, but we still
were not sure exactly what we were fighting with, it was not showing
its hand yet. No matter what the vet did we could not keep the fever
down. She could give keto and it would go down for 6 hours or so and
then right back to 105. Yesterday it showed us what it was. He had
a belly full of straw color fluid. It was positive for the Rivalta test. This
is either FIP or Liver cancer. We know there is a medication being
used out there that claims to cure FIP. It is not FDA approved in the
US, it is brought in from China. It is also very painful and the cats
must endure 84 days of shots. Some people have had good success,
more have had their cats suffer and die anyway. Tony was a double
positive, he was both FIV and Leukemia positive. The vet and I
both felt letting him go was the right thing. It was not going to change
our final outcome, leukemia will always win in the end.
He was a fun friendly little fellow. He would stand at his door every
morning and yell at the staff to hurry up and feed me. He loved to
play with toys and sit in your lap.
7/28/2022