Herpes   

Yesterday evening I got a call from my vet, and she told me tha she had a call from SVA earlier that evening. They have examined the samples from our cats, and one of them wich have no symptoms was negative for Herpes, Clamydia and Mycoplasma. The cat with symptoms in the eyes was also negative for Herpes, Clamydia and Mycoplasma. The cat with symptoms from the eyes and the upper respitory system tested positive for Herpes and Mycoplasma. Luckily our vet had chosen to start the treatment with Doxycycline and Terramycin-Polimixin B on all our cats even before the conclution came from SVA. Now we have a group of cats in the livingroom at the ground floor, a group in the bedroom at the same floor, and the rest of the pack has the rest of our house as a playground. And they really need a playground! The whole pack is behaving like they are kittens everybody, and they play for several hours each day.

We thougth we have found a perfect home for Kikki, Joker, Doc and Mischa but the ment-to-be coowner of Kikki did not think she could give Kikki what she needed and there was not any alternatives to her. Joker and Doc was planned to move to the south of Norway, to a home that seemed to be perfect for them AND their new owners wanted to use them in breeding! They have shorthaired oriental cats, and wanted to try out the longhaired too. I sent them an e-mail when I have finished the phone with the vet, and told them about the results of the tests and gave them some links to facts about Herpes. They read some of it and decided that they would not take the chance to take Joker & Doc because they already had 3 siameses at home and they did not want to expose them for the Herpes virus. None of these 4 cats mentioned have had any symptoms of Herpes, Calici, Clamydia or Mycoplasma and they might not shed any virus at all. I have sent the new owner of Mischa an e-mail and told her too about the testresults. I have not got any answer from her yet, but she migth be occupied or she is thinking about what she should do. As long as she hasn´t said no to Mischa, it´s still a hope for here to move to this home wich would be perfect for her! We cross our fingers and hope the best!

The medication of our 15 cats and kittens 2 times a day and giving them eyedrops 3 times a day are no big deal, luckily! I guess we use 10 minutes to medicate all of them, and we are still in the very beginning to medicate every cat in the house. How long time will we need when we have given the cats treatment for 3 weeks? I guess we really will got a hang of it by that time!

I need to thank Malin (S*Vildbackens) for her support and help to find information about not only Herpes, but everything I´m asking her about! Without her we would have ended our dreams about our breeding long time ago. She´s there and she answer every question I have, at any time. Thank you so much Malin, I really look up to you and your work with developing the balinese breed.

Another support is Berit ((N)Yowie´s). She has done the same as Malin, and without Malin and Berit have ended our dreams about breeding a long time ago. Thank you so much Berit! It´s hard to stand on our feets when the storm comes, but you 2 has managed to help us in every storm.

Another breeder that has helped us with advices and information is Veena((N)Attacks). I was higly surprised when a PM from her landed in my inbox at FB. Suprised because we have had quite extended problems with our communication. I am really glad that she choose to look through the past and helped us on the way. Thank you so much Veena!

Some links to facts about Herpes

http://www.netdyredoktor.dk/sw28909.asp

http://www.netdyredoktor.dk/sw12969.asp

Forums

http://www.kattegale.dk/

http://www.sphynxdillan.se