Beeso Cattery HCM cats review: Beeso Cattery HCM cats 4

Hello!
I bought a cat from Beeso about 5 years ago! His name is Laser and he is 5 years old now. He is an excellent cat and I have never had any trouble with him! We had a few vet visits because he is so mischievous that he has gotten into some trouble! Overall Beeso was great! I got to pick the kitten I wanted from the litter, met the breeders and had several visits with him while he was still nursing with his mother until he was old enough to come home. On his take home date she sent him with food and a blanket that smelt like his family (clean of course) The woman was very sweet! I sent e-mails back and forth with the son before I brought my kitten home as well!

So sorry that some of you had sick kittens! That is horrible and I would be a basket case! I just wanted to share my good experience with Beeso!

Good luck Sphynx lovers!

I also purchased a 1 year old "kitten" from Beeso the first week of October, I too had to pick up the cat from his "mother" never got to see other cats or meet the breeder. Breeder was very communicative and quick to contact before the transaction. Last week, I had an animal sitter watching her and my parrots whilst I was off to Vegas to be married. We arrived home to find my cat in distress, fresh blood on the floor and a stillborn kitten on my sofa. My cat was in and out of states of awareness. I contacted all night vets and all agreed we had an emergency here as we didn't know if more kittens were in her or how long she had been in this state. I did email breeder at 1am to let him know, however instead of waiting up for a response that may nor may not happen in the middle of the night, we opted to be safe and drive her an hour to Barrie to nearest hospital. She turned up with a fever in the 40 degree range ( that is a sick cat!) and her x rays showed no more kittens however her uterus was extended with pus, an infection called pyometria, deadly in animals . The vet told me I could take her and wait till morning and go to a vet...but if her uterus erupted she would go septic and die. Given her appearance and fever I decided to get her emergency surgery. I stayed there until 8am until they closed the emerg hospital and had to transport her to a new vet opening at 8am, which she stayed there over night, I was awake 36 hours sitting in vets with my poor little baby.
Upon returning home, there was an email from the breeder sent an hour after I'd contacted him, asking me to call, this was a day later but I called to update him on the cats situation. As soon as I told him I am incurring upwards of 2000 in bills he promised to call me back. HE did not respond to messages for a few days. Last night I had an email from him saying that he would have been able to coach me thru this emergency over the phone and that there was no real health danger! REALLY! I am gonna be coached over the phone on how to do surgery on a cat on my kitchen table?! He then blamed the fact I had been away and my animal sitter was not here 24/7 as the cat needs someone 24/7... Hmmm... I was sold a kitten, never been bred...and when this happened the breeder admitted she had been "hanging out" with a stud! SO Obviously he was not responsible, and not with his cats 24/7 to see to it that my kitten was not breeding, she would have been barely a year old! I know for a fact he knows she was in heat and by keeping her around intact males, he probably was trying to breed her. Even if that was not his intention, why would anyone keep intact cats in a cycle of heat together? Anyways my cat also has respitory issues, common to catteries... breeder says this is normal and explained to all customers before purchase... uhhhh not me, never said a word to me about this. Apparently it is common sense if you have a sphynx, that it is gonna sneeze cough and have congestion.
I am very very disappointed my baby had to be put thru this, however in a sense after seeing how he reacted, I believe he would have let her die at his facility rather than take her to a vet. I do have an email with his lack of compassion around this situation and I would be more than happy to share my ordeal with anyone else who is thinking of buying from this man. I am in the process of scanning and sending my cats medical reports to the appropriate cat associations, people need to know...

FIV-infected cats may show nonspecific signs such as lethargy, loss of appetite, fever, swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy), and weight loss. The signs of FIV infection and FeLV infection are very similar.

Oral Infections: Chronic oral infections occur in approximately 50% of cats with FIV-related disease. Cats may show pain when touched on the face, have difficulty eating or refuse to eat, and may have a bad odor around the mouth. These infections can be difficult to control. Oral infections are more common in cats with FIV infection than those infected with FeLV.

Skin and Ear Infections: Recurrent or chronic infections of the skin and ears may be the first sign of an FIV infection. Because of the immunodeficiency, parasites, yeast and bacteria overgrow and cause symptoms such as hair loss, itching, and pustules. Demodectic and notoedric mange, which are unusual in healthy cats may be seen. Chronic ear mite infections and aggressive ringworm lesions have also been reported. Chronic abscesses can also occur.

found @ http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=1+1316&aid=213

in addition
Once you vaccinate your cats for FIV, tests will show the cats as positive carriers of the virus due to the antibodies the cats develop to the vaccine.

The FIV vaccine is a killed virus, therefore it is not capable of causing FIV infection. (SUPPOSEDLY READ BELOW)

So it is possible your cat has this from the cattery you got her from or if she was vaccinated against this maybe she got a bad vaccine that caused disease rather than preventing disease. Ocassionally a so called killed vaccine may not have been treated sufficiently to kill all of the virus then that vaccine can infect an animal. I had that happen with dogs and parvo vaccine once. At the time I was a licensed kennel and able to give the vaccines myself. Had 3 litters of puppies from between 1 week and 12 weeks old. Within a week of giving shots babies were dropping like flies. The puppies would appear healthy and be eating and drinking normally no symptoms whatsoever at breakfast but be dead by lunchtime. Necropsy showed Parvo was the problem. The adults who had recieved their booster shot from this same batch of vaccine developed the disease more slowly and I had time to get them to a vet when symptoms developed. After spending thousands in vet bills I managed to save about half of my babies and yes I am including the adults as babies. The experience was so traumatic that I gave up breeding permanently.

and you figured that before or after you bought the sick cat?