I recently adopted two stray kitties I found in a box on the street.
Their names are Donut and Sparks. Donut is doing ok, but my vet did a snap test (that's what he called it) and it showed that Sparks has Feline Leukemia.
I trust him on that, the test thing showed positive. But after that, he told me that he needed surgery. Now me, not knowing anything about Feline Leukemia,
posted it on "Caring for Strays and Ferals" and I got responses like this
The vet already did the surgery, and I am picking up Sparks in a while. What surgery did he do? The reasoning he gave was:
His reasoning was that usually cats can produce antibodies at Sparks' stage of the virus, according to my vet. However, Sparks can not produce those antibodies. For whatever reason, the vet refused any injections or pills, so they have to insert the antibodies into his bloodstream manually (by means of surgery).
I'm pretty confused, because I'm not really sure about what this disease actually does, how Sparks got it, etc.
What should I do?
Their names are Donut and Sparks. Donut is doing ok, but my vet did a snap test (that's what he called it) and it showed that Sparks has Feline Leukemia.
I trust him on that, the test thing showed positive. But after that, he told me that he needed surgery. Now me, not knowing anything about Feline Leukemia,
posted it on "Caring for Strays and Ferals" and I got responses like this
The vet already did the surgery, and I am picking up Sparks in a while. What surgery did he do? The reasoning he gave was:
His reasoning was that usually cats can produce antibodies at Sparks' stage of the virus, according to my vet. However, Sparks can not produce those antibodies. For whatever reason, the vet refused any injections or pills, so they have to insert the antibodies into his bloodstream manually (by means of surgery).
I'm pretty confused, because I'm not really sure about what this disease actually does, how Sparks got it, etc.
What should I do?