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What Is Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV)?
By Dr. Amanda Page
What is Feline Leukemia Virus?
Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) is a serious viral disease that affects ONLY CATS. Fortunately, there are many ways we can protect our cats from exposure to this disease. It is estimated that 2.3% of cats in the western United States are infected with FeLV.
How does FeLV cause disease?
The Feline Leukemia Virus can cause bone marrow suppression. One of the functions of bone marrow is to produce the cells of the immune system that fight off infection. Therefore, …
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Satsuma
by Elizabeth Cava
Aug 17, 2001
As a feral cat trapper, it’s always the one that I missed that haunts me.
The one that won’t go in the trap.
Incoming call to Best Friends Catnippers’ hotline: “Please help! Starving, stray cats are getting run over in the street.”
Satsuma Street Site: North Hollywood, California.
Site History: Elderly man feeding 18 cats dies. Bank takes over. Property sits vacant in limbo. The 18 cats? Left on their own. To starve.
Neighborhood agrees to feed these now-feral (or wild) cats if we implement trap/neuter/return, a humane alternative to trapping …
