We're in the midst of a panleuk outbreak with rescue this week. We've lost 14 kittens, and still have another 8 that are potentially sick as well.
You know how sometimes it seems like the stars and moon and sun all align and not in a good way? Yeah that's what happened to us.
2 weeks ago Thursday we were having a board meeting at our Pres's house. The kittens we think brought the parvo in were picked up by a foster home and brought to pres's house. Another foster home was to meet us there and pick them up. Easy transfer right? Wrong. The kittens were younger than we thought and we needed to see if they could eat on their own. When we determined that they were going to need a little more care than destination foster home could provide, we sent her home with an older litter instead. (Pres does bottle babies often so we had a group that was being weaned). Pres kept the newbies to work on getting them to eat better on their own. All litters are kept separate for obvious reasons. We sat there and all washed our hands after handling these guys. No one ever *really* thinks about distemper here, it happens so rarely. We worry about URI, and calici more than anything. Well, we all took it home on our clothes. Three of the people at the meeting that night have lost kittens to distemper. Another set of bottle babies at the meeting that night got sent out to three different homes as they needed serious 1 on 1 care. Two of those homes now have distemper, even though only one of those kittens ended up testing positive.
Its so sad and heartbreaking we all just want to scream. We've spent so many days up at the E-vet with diffeent kitties, having to euthanize different guys and trying to save the ones we can.
Good juju and paws crossed for us that we are nearing the end of our trials and tribulations this season.
You know how sometimes it seems like the stars and moon and sun all align and not in a good way? Yeah that's what happened to us.
2 weeks ago Thursday we were having a board meeting at our Pres's house. The kittens we think brought the parvo in were picked up by a foster home and brought to pres's house. Another foster home was to meet us there and pick them up. Easy transfer right? Wrong. The kittens were younger than we thought and we needed to see if they could eat on their own. When we determined that they were going to need a little more care than destination foster home could provide, we sent her home with an older litter instead. (Pres does bottle babies often so we had a group that was being weaned). Pres kept the newbies to work on getting them to eat better on their own. All litters are kept separate for obvious reasons. We sat there and all washed our hands after handling these guys. No one ever *really* thinks about distemper here, it happens so rarely. We worry about URI, and calici more than anything. Well, we all took it home on our clothes. Three of the people at the meeting that night have lost kittens to distemper. Another set of bottle babies at the meeting that night got sent out to three different homes as they needed serious 1 on 1 care. Two of those homes now have distemper, even though only one of those kittens ended up testing positive.
Its so sad and heartbreaking we all just want to scream. We've spent so many days up at the E-vet with diffeent kitties, having to euthanize different guys and trying to save the ones we can.
Good juju and paws crossed for us that we are nearing the end of our trials and tribulations this season.