testing for FIP

One of the most frustrating things I personally have encountered is the testing or shall we say there for lack of accurate FIP testing.
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) testing is the best and brightest there is to offer at this time, and yet it is still not completely reliable in it's results. Not because of how the test is done, but more as in how the virus plays with science.
This page from Cornell University diagnostic testing services explains the test's limitations very well.
http://www.diaglab.vet.cornell.edu/test/factsheets/FSFelCoronaviursRT-PCR.pdf
The impracticality of isolation and testing in a multicat household in this manner is frustrating at best.
I do isolate the cats I know to be sick, but those who don't look sick, just might be typhoid mary's?, It's hard to accept that I do the best I can, and not feel like it's like I'm Sisyphus.

For Ickis (pictured) and Zilla and Dora and all the other loving lives lost to this disease, I will never give up looking for answers.

Happy Easter

This is Huggle....He is one of Minga's kittens.

PETA revisited

On another blog I read and comment on the PETA issue raised it's ugly head....so I have a few more links for today's reading enjoyment

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2339


this one really frosts my cookies as a parent

http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

I respect each person's views when it comes to meat eating and diet..I do not however accept sad sheep behavior and blindly following something because it is popular...educate yourself for heaven's sake before saying you support something.

I believe in using the whole animal if the animal is to sacrifice it's life for man. My dogs get cow bones, I eat all parts of meat and I wear leather. I would never eat shark fin soup. I would eat oysters and wear pearls.
I respect those who prefer tofu to lamb, and products that don't come from animals. I would never try and get a vegetarian to eat meat, Unless it was necessary for their health. I don't support taking an animal like a cat which is an obligate carnivore and placing human standards and values on their needs however. That is cruel. IF you want an animal that doesn't need meat. get a rabbit.