Kirsten
12-07-2004, 12:07 PM
Boy, I'm scared now!!!
In April 2001, when Luna was one year old, I visited friends in Cologne. They had two cats, Mozart and Verdi, both of them older than 10 years at that time. Before I agreed to bring Luna with me, I asked if their cats have been vaccinated. I was told they are, and so I took Luna with me.
Now both their cats are dead, appearantly FIP. Mozart passed away in early 2003, and I was told she had cancer, a squamous cell carcinoma under her tongue. Last week she told me that Verdi got seriously ill (http://67.15.70.205/talk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65384) with an abcess in her mouth, and today she emailed me Verdi had been PTS yesterday, and that she had "the mutated corona virus", so I figure she meant FIP (she doesn't know much about cat diseases), and that she had picked it up from Mozart. The entire story sounds very mysterious to me, but when I called my friend, she has just been busy with her baby boy and had no time to talk. All she said is that it had turned out that Mozart had had FIP as well and that the cancer was only the final state. She has never told me before. :(
Now I'm totally scared that Luna has picked up the virus when we were at their place back in 2001. They didn't share food bowls or litter boxes, at least as far as I remember, and they didn't have much physical contact. They chased each other, but never were in close contact.
I'm very worried though, and immediately called my vet at home (her office times were already over). She said the chances she might have picked it up were 1:1,000,000, but also said that still too less is known about the mutation of the virus. She offered me to have them tested, but as you probably know, the test would also show a corona virus in general, not if it's the FIP virus or the harmless enteric corona virus. So if the test would show she is positive, I would probably only wait for the disease to break out, and what sense would that make except that I'm worrying myself sick over that (and the girls, too). :( I know that many cats are corona virus positive, and that it takes a "trigger" for the virus to mutate. And if my girls would be positive, they could have also picked it up from their mothers already, so I will never know if they have that specific virus from my friends' place, unless the disease is breaking out.
I lost my Aysche to FIP a long time ago, and I really hate that disease from the bottom of my heart! I have read tons of information about it, and yet there are so many things that I still don't know. :(
Please, please send some positive thoughts to my girls!!
Thanks, Kirsten
In April 2001, when Luna was one year old, I visited friends in Cologne. They had two cats, Mozart and Verdi, both of them older than 10 years at that time. Before I agreed to bring Luna with me, I asked if their cats have been vaccinated. I was told they are, and so I took Luna with me.
Now both their cats are dead, appearantly FIP. Mozart passed away in early 2003, and I was told she had cancer, a squamous cell carcinoma under her tongue. Last week she told me that Verdi got seriously ill (http://67.15.70.205/talk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65384) with an abcess in her mouth, and today she emailed me Verdi had been PTS yesterday, and that she had "the mutated corona virus", so I figure she meant FIP (she doesn't know much about cat diseases), and that she had picked it up from Mozart. The entire story sounds very mysterious to me, but when I called my friend, she has just been busy with her baby boy and had no time to talk. All she said is that it had turned out that Mozart had had FIP as well and that the cancer was only the final state. She has never told me before. :(
Now I'm totally scared that Luna has picked up the virus when we were at their place back in 2001. They didn't share food bowls or litter boxes, at least as far as I remember, and they didn't have much physical contact. They chased each other, but never were in close contact.
I'm very worried though, and immediately called my vet at home (her office times were already over). She said the chances she might have picked it up were 1:1,000,000, but also said that still too less is known about the mutation of the virus. She offered me to have them tested, but as you probably know, the test would also show a corona virus in general, not if it's the FIP virus or the harmless enteric corona virus. So if the test would show she is positive, I would probably only wait for the disease to break out, and what sense would that make except that I'm worrying myself sick over that (and the girls, too). :( I know that many cats are corona virus positive, and that it takes a "trigger" for the virus to mutate. And if my girls would be positive, they could have also picked it up from their mothers already, so I will never know if they have that specific virus from my friends' place, unless the disease is breaking out.
I lost my Aysche to FIP a long time ago, and I really hate that disease from the bottom of my heart! I have read tons of information about it, and yet there are so many things that I still don't know. :(
Please, please send some positive thoughts to my girls!!
Thanks, Kirsten