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Old July 24th 05, 02:35 AM
Arjun Ray
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:12:56 -0500, Cheryl
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| True! I've seen some survive, even tiny kittens that you'd think
| were goners.

The survival rate for kittens is very low, but still non-zero.

| The good thing is that I believe they are immune for life if
| they've successfully beat it.

Yes, but I've learned that survival doesn't necessarily mean 100%
recovery. One side effect can be damage to the nervous system, which
can cause the cat to become uncoordinated at times. By cat standards
my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the vet ventured the opinion that she
might have survived distemper when she was a kitten to be this way.

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Old July 24th 05, 10:17 PM
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On Sat 23 Jul 2005 09:35:16p, Arjun Ray wrote in
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Yes, but I've learned that survival doesn't necessarily mean
100% recovery. One side effect can be damage to the nervous
system, which can cause the cat to become uncoordinated at
times. By cat standards my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the
vet ventured the opinion that she might have survived distemper
when she was a kitten to be this way.


That's an interesting opinion on your vets part. I've never seen the
long-term after effects of panleuk since they were all shelter
kitties. Do you think Marie's feet are QOL issues? I think I know the
answer to that.

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Cheryl

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breath."
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Old July 25th 05, 01:18 AM
Arjun Ray
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:17:24 -0500, Cheryl
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| On Sat 23 Jul 2005 09:35:16p, Arjun Ray wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav
| ):
|
| By cat standards my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the vet ventured
| the opinion that she might have survived distemper when she was a
| kitten to be this way.
|
| That's an interesting opinion on your vets part. I've never seen the
| long-term after effects of panleuk since they were all shelter
| kitties. Do you think Marie's feet are QOL issues? I think I know the
| answer to that.

No, she isn't literally flatfooted. I meant that she's clumsy. She
loses her balance rather easily, which can be painful in my lap, as
her claws then come out instinctively. (Yes, I snip regularly but she
digs in hard.) Sometimes she miscalculates the jump to the table: she
makes it up but then skids to a stop. Her walk is an exaggerated
waddle, as if her butt is going to fall over if she swishes any wider.

Even so, I don't think she had distemper. This is probably something
else, perhaps congenital. We had seen her since her mom brought her
out at 6-8 weeks or so, and she had always looked healthy. We caught
her at 5 months, usually too late for ferals, but she has been the
exception to prove the rule.


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Old July 25th 05, 02:20 AM
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I think Lilo has some lingering effects from the panleukopenia. She is
healthy, but a very clumsy cat, and easily falls/loses her footing.
Her hind quarters at times seem unstable, and back legs will
occasionally give out. It doesn't seem to bother her--she is fearless
and headstrong--but I do think she had some nerve damage while in the
last stages of the illness.

Also, she has not grown much--before we realized she had panleukopenia,
vet told us she would be a large cat. She is now almost 2 years old,
but is just over 7 pounds. I think the parvo also stunted her growth.

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Old July 25th 05, 02:23 AM
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Also, she has not grown much--before we realized she had panleukopenia,
vet told us she would be a large cat. She is now almost 2 years old,
but is just over 7 pounds. I think the parvo also stunted her growth.


It often does. I know a cat that survived Parvo but his equlibrium was
affected. He never could walk straight again after the infection. I
was sure it was from an inner eat problem from the Parvo but reading
what you and Arjun posted, now I don't know...

-L.

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Old July 28th 05, 08:55 PM
Sharon Talbert
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Kittens can be exposed to the distemper virus en utero, which causes the
embryo to develop pretty much without a cerebellum (cerebellar
hypoplasia). I have such a cat, who was taken as a feral kitten at 4
weeks. Twelve years later, Tipsy is still with us and still going strong.
In Tipsy's case, her mother was exposed to distemper the year before and
became a carrier to her kittens.

Sharon Talbert
Friends of Campus Cats

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Arjun Ray wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:17:24 -0500, Cheryl
wrote:
| On Sat 23 Jul 2005 09:35:16p, Arjun Ray wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav
| ):
|
| By cat standards my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the vet ventured
| the opinion that she might have survived distemper when she was a
| kitten to be this way.
|
| That's an interesting opinion on your vets part. I've never seen the
| long-term after effects of panleuk since they were all shelter
| kitties. Do you think Marie's feet are QOL issues? I think I know the
| answer to that.

No, she isn't literally flatfooted. I meant that she's clumsy. She
loses her balance rather easily, which can be painful in my lap, as
her claws then come out instinctively. (Yes, I snip regularly but she
digs in hard.) Sometimes she miscalculates the jump to the table: she
makes it up but then skids to a stop. Her walk is an exaggerated
waddle, as if her butt is going to fall over if she swishes any wider.

Even so, I don't think she had distemper. This is probably something
else, perhaps congenital. We had seen her since her mom brought her
out at 6-8 weeks or so, and she had always looked healthy. We caught
her at 5 months, usually too late for ferals, but she has been the
exception to prove the rule.



 




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