Am so relieved all is well.
"Storrmmee" wrote in message
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as you know we are having difficulty with the hotel and the number of cats
we have in this small place. one of the problems we had i had not
revealed before because of waiting to find out if there was a problem with
our six remaining cats. As many of you also know Tiger went to the bridge
after our house fire. he was out for a day and never recovered from the
stress of it all, along with the actual fire, he was terrified of all
strangers and most men even if they were in his house. being out, having
been chucked out by a stranger, being without me for an entre day with
nofood stressed his sustem to the point that the before unknown feline
lukemia activated in his system and he went downhill rapidly. The ER vet
was so purplexed by Tigers rapid downhill progress that he went back to
the clinic, ran the test at no charge to me and then when he got the
results called us with the bad news. after some discussion with this vet
and the regular one we decided to wait a while to test for fiv/flv so we
would have a solid answer once and for all. if a cat is infected it can
take up to and over thirty days for it to show positive and since no cats
wer showing signs of it this is what we did.

now with these living arrangement issues we had to make sure the cats were
virus free so in case they have to be rehomed nobody else would be
exposed. It turns out that none of the other cats are positive and that is
a huge releif. now if things are such that i have to get someone to
foster i can do it with assurance that all of my cats are healthy.

Barbi has a stress related hot spot on her back which occurs from time to
time. everone stayed the same or gained weight except for OEJ and
Storrmee's sensitivity to having her tail touch seems to be related to the
connecting joint at her body and tail and thankfully is not displasia.

MH hurked up on the way to the vet, it doesn't matter to him if its five
minutes or fifty minutes he seems to hurke when put in the van. Vet says
if we have to bring him in and its not an emergency we can get a pill to
calm this.

other than the expense of it all, it was a pleaseant visit for us the
humans, the cats, not so much