We could have never imagined the impact that Tumi would have on our lives when my now fiancé brought him home on Valentine's Day just last year. He was instantly nothing less than our fur baby and a true member of the family, even with...
Our sweet baby was taken way too soon by FIP on 5/24/14 at only 9 months old. Wookie was a very loveable kitty who would run like crazy from one end of the house to the other playing with his 3 older brothers, then he...
I never knew how much love my husband and I could hold for an animal until we adopted Drogo at 12 weeks and fell in love with him over the last year. Sadly we lost him to fip 05/14/2014. I had never heard of fip...
Mary Ann was rescued as a kitten with her sisters. Her sisters were all adopted, but Mary Ann spent her life in foster care. I was her foster mom the entire time and loved her dearly. At three years and eleven months of age, she...
The following is an article written by breeder and epidemiologist Cris Bird, Dr. P.H. She has a doctoral degree in public health from UCLA and is also an Old Style (Thais) Siamese breeder at Sarsenstone Cattery. She shares her excellent article “A Word About FIP” with SOCK FIP.
A Word About FIP by Cris Bird, Dr. P.H.
One of us at Sarsenstone is an epidemiologist, a researcher who specializes in disease prevention and control, so we can’t resist talking a little about how to prevent and control feline infectious peritonitis, FIP. We also encourage you to ask your veterinarian any questions you may have about FIP.
When you look at cattery ads and websites, you often see “We guarantee our kittens free of feline leukemia and FIV.” Sometimes you see guarantees that kittens are free of ringworm and FIP, as well. It is reasonable for a breeder to claim that her kittens are free of feline leukemia and FIV. There are good screening tests for those diseases. The tests are not perfect. No test is. But they are very, very good, about as good as screening tests can get. If a breeder tests all new cats for feline leukemia and FIV and does not allow the new cats to join her other cats until she is sure they are negative for those diseases, and if she never allows her cats to wander outdoors, she can be confident, and so can you, that her kittens are leukemia and FIV-free.
We lost our baby Bronson 12.9.2013 after six long weeks of struggling against FIP. Bronson was a very gentle cat with the sweetest character. He was the apple of my eye and I still find it very unfair that we had so little time together....
Not a day goes by that I don't think of sweet India. She passed away due to FIP on Sept 4, 2011, two years to the day since I adopted her as a little 5-month-old black kitten. I had heard of FIP but had never...
In loving memory of my sweet Ceilidh (June 23, 2008-Feb 26, 2011) who passed away because of this terrible disease. She was a feisty gal; full of life and although she would only give love on her terms those moments when she did were cherished...
This is a picture taken in 1991 when I received the first Jean Holzworth award for feline research. Dr. Holzworth was in my mind the best feline medicine clinician that ever lived. She received her DVM from Cornell University and spent her entire life...
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