Thanks, i hope it will come especially when I take the board exams

I had bought 2 catnip mice for Tinta, but since she's sick I didn't
give them to her.

Guess who found them in my backpack?

Mischief is rolling around the catnip mouse AND my stinky swim towel
and is SOOOOOoOO out of it.

Kristi

[[Poor Tinta. Lots of purrs coming over for her to recover soon. It seems
that most shelter cats I 'meet' here get that URI when they are first
adopted from the shelter. Does anyone have an explanation for it? Maybe
it's just the change from one environment to another that causes it. Aww
about the goose. LOL about her name.]]

From what the vet said when I brought Captain and Stanley in for their
first exam, "kennel cough" is very contagious. In which case, if one pet
comes in sick it must be a real chore to keep it from spreading to the
rest of them... or to stop the spread once it's begun.

There were several sneezy kitties when I was at the shelter in January,
the day I started the paperwork to adopt Captain and Stanley. I actually
did notice that they were both sneezy, too, but decided that they were the
Right Cats and adopted them anyway. I figured that if they came home with
kennel cough, I'd just deal with it THEN. And I did.

BTW, the shelter had a policy asking visitors to wash their hands with
antibacterial lotion (think Purell and other non-soap-and-water hand
cleaners) between handling cats. There was a dispenser of said lotion on
the wall by the cat cages. They also had a sign on one particular kitty's
cage that she was on medication. I'm thinking that if someone wanted to
handle THAT cat, they'd have had to be even more careful to clean their
hands before and after the encounter. So the shelter WAS aware that an
issue was afoot, and they were doing their best to try and get a handle on
it, while still making pets available for adoption.

Donna

P.S. I didn't visit the shelter's dog room. It killed me enough that I
couldn't give a home to all the cats I saw, all of whom deserve a
ForeverHome where they'll be spoiled rotten. It'd have killed me even
worse to see the dogs and know I couldn't give a home to ANY of them right
now. So I'm not sure if any of the dogs were sneezy, too.

I've read that stress has a lot to do with it. That it exacerbates a
latent virus, or at least lowers the immune system so that they
become more susceptible. Rhett and Scarlett were never in a shelter,
but they were sick as can be when I first got them. It kept coming in
waves, too, until they were finally both finished with being sick.

Here's the latest update on Tinta......

When I came in this morning, her temp was 104, so it is down.  Since
she's under quarantine, I didn't want to bother her that much.  I
wanted to let her rest, even though she wants OUT of the cage.

She gets SQ fluids everyday and we're supposed to have started her on
clavamox today too.  But since her temp is down that's a good sign.

Kristi