Guest guest Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 This reminded me of years ago, long before they had feline leukemia vaccines and there was basically nothing they could do about feline leukemia except watch the cats die. My 4 year old male cat started to sleep all day and night and had stopped eating. The vet tried everything they had but his blood numbers just kept on dropping. He finally said to me " well, I can't officially call it feline leukemia because the number has to drop another 2 points to be called that, but as his numbers have kept falling I know that's what it is. I have this one more medicine to try. I don't think it will do any good, but it's all I have. " I got the medicine but basically took my cat home and thought he had just a few weeks to live. That day in the mail I got my Prevention magazine. The animal article was about feline leukemia and how they were having good luck with A, E, C and zinc. So I threw the medicine out, went to the store and bought bottles of each and came home and started giving them to my cat. Fortunately he was too sick to protest at 4 tablets being shoved down his throat twice a day. Well, within a week he was eating normally. Within 2 weeks he was his old self, playing and bouncing around. I was overjoyed. When I took him back to the vet he couldn't believe it. He thought I had perhaps gone to another vet and got some new medicine after I told him that I hadn't given my cat the meds he had given me. So he excitedly asked what I had done because " whatever it is I have lots of clients who can use this " . I will never forget--as I began to tell him about the vitamins he turned his back to me and started fiddling with some stuff on the counter. When I had finally finished talking he turned around and began talking about something else as though I had never spoken a word!!! I continued to give the cat the daily dose of vitamins (which the cat took as though he knew they were helping) for a month or two. Can't remember as it has been so long, then I cut back to giving them to him once a day for another few months and then stopped. He lived to be 15 years old. Samala, -------Original Message------- I wasn't going to share my dog story, but your posts are compelling me to. I am normally geared towards holistic/natural for myself, family, pets. (My husband barely tolerates this as he has complete faith in allopathic medicine). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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