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From: kolling@magic.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Viral infection
Message-ID: <125@magic.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 20:52:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 20:52:14 1984
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I adopted a cat from a shelter a few days ago.  I wisked her right
from the shelter to the vet's because between when I picked her out
and when she was released for adoption, she developed a very bad upper
respiratory infection.  She's in an isolation cage at the vet's, curled
in a miserable heap, she drools a lot constantly, and doesn't eat,
presumably because she has a monster sore throat.  She's on intravenous
fluids, and the vet says if she doesn't start eating by Monday, he
recommends a surgical procedure to insert a tube into her stomach to feed
her thru.  He also says this type of infection is usually fatal to only a
few percent of the cats that get it, but he doesn't sound as positive
when he says this as he sounded when he said it yesterday.....  Anybody
had a cat with this condition who has any advice to offer?  Are her
chances really non-zero?  I'm wondering if this surgery thing will do
more harm than good?

Karen (kolling@decwrl.arpa)