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"Sunflower" wrote in message
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We are learning a hard lesson. We have a ringworm problem out
of control at
our shelter. Instead of being proactive and euthanizing the 4
that
originally had it, we are now having to euthanize 20 per our
municipality's
orders "because of public safety". We have had some Program
donated to help
manage things, and are planning to treat the remaining 14 that
are
asymptomatic under Woods lamp exposure (but which probably still
have it
anyway). This is a hearbreaking and expensive lesson for any
shelter to
learn, so please please if you do not have a *real* isolation
area or a
foster parent willing to take ringworm infected animals into
their home for
a complete cure (not just abatement of the obvious symptoms)
then do your
shelter a favor and euthanize immediately. You may still end up
with
problems, but not like this.

I just wanted to, well, I don't know what. I'm sad that we have
to kill
this many animals. I'm mad that people's good hearts ruled
their heads and
now we have to kill a lot more than we would have. And, I'm
even madder
that I'm viewed as the bad person in this because euthanasia is
what I
initially recommended, and now that my predictions of an
epidemic have come
true, all of the people who "just couldn't bear it" if we killed
those cats
won't step forward and put a cage of them in a spare bathroom at
their home
and treat them themself, but once again view me as the bad
person because
I'm the only one willing to deal with taking them in to the vet
for
euthanasia. And yes, I have a cage of fosters in my garage
undergoing
treatment right now. I can't do it all though. And I'm almost
bone tired
of trying.

Sunflower.