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[threeplusfire]

One of my the cats at my mother's house has FIV. It's Jacks, Jackie Long Tail, the orange tabby cat who desperately wanted to live and come home with us. He's asymptomatic, and strangely the healthiest of all the rescue cats we've taken home. He probably got it out at night, as he has a tendency to fight the neighborhood cats. Damn it Jackie.

Sarah made me cave and get a Facebook. I am a sheep.

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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Can they do anything to treat it, once they're infected?

I'm sorry....

[geoectomy.livejournal.com]

Hoping he remains asymptomatic for a very long time...

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Not really - as an immune disorder all they really can do is try to reduce the chances he will pick up diseases or infections. So my mother is making him stay inside at night, and trying to reduce his outdoor time a little so he won't have opportunities to fight so much with the other boys in the neighborhood.

[twilight.livejournal.com]

I have a FB too. I mainly use it for photo albums/videos. Easy.

Re: I'm sorry....

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's so strange, given how healthy he has always been.

FB Photo-albums...

[geoectomy.livejournal.com]

Sorry for butting in.

Depending on the type of photos you do, you might want to look over FB's privacy policy and terms of service. They reserve the right to modify and convert to their own use any photo posted on their site.

Technically, this comes down to resizing and maybe slapping a FB logo on it. However, there are no clauses which prevent Facebook from using your images for their own purposes. By putting your image up on Facebook, you are licensing its' use to Facebook, in whatever manner they deem fit.

I occasionally post regular "hey-it's-me" photos, but no longer post studio-sessions there, for this reason.

Facebook?

[geoectomy.livejournal.com]

Will have to search for you....

Re: FB Photo-albums...

[twilight.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I just post personal albums thankfully.

[aplomada.livejournal.com]

Oh no, what a shame! Are the other kitties vaccinated?

When I was a kid, my aunt came to live with us briefly... her cat had kittens, but her milk dried up... turned out she had FeLV, and she and the litter had to be euthanized. Pretty hard for a kid to understand.