To answer if the foster mom has her cats vaccinated, NO. However, Taffy has her
own litter box and own feeding bowl and only mingles with the other cats for a
short time during the day, then back to her room with her pooch friend. I'm not
too keen on vaccines. I have heard nasty things about the FeLv vaccine, like
cats have come down with the disease a few weeks after being vaccinated and had
no other source of being infected. I have also had a personal experience with a
faulty polio vaccination when I was a teen. It left me with nerve damage which
has not improved with age but at least I wasn't paralyzed, just in pain for a
couple of years while my muscles gained strength with physical therapy.
Vaccines are not the perfect answer to everything.
>________________________________
> From: Shelley Theye <ve...@bellsouth.net>
>To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 1:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Question about FeLV/FIV testing
>
>
>Hi Lee,
>
>Thanks for explaining. Not sure if there is hope for Leo to still turn
>negative. He tested positive last July, when trapped and neutered, and then
>again in Nov. I haven't retested yet, and am thinking of doing the IFA too.
>Does the woman who has Taffy have all of her other cats vaccinated for FeLV?
>
>Do most people on this list who mix positive and negatives have their
>negatives vaccinated for FeLV?
>
>Shelley
>
>
>
>On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Lee Evans wrote:
>
>> Hi Shelley - I'm not sure as to when they were exposed. These were cats
>> rescued from different places at different times. One, a male who I have had
>> not for about 6 to 7 years, was rescued when he was not neutered, around age
>> 2, street cat, but tame. Since I was going to get him adopted after
>> neutering, I had him tested before I took him into my own house. He tested
>> negative for FIV but positive for FeLv. I tested again at another vet. Still
>> positive, but that vet suggested that I keep him for two months and then
>> re-test. This guy was on top of the latest literature in vet medicine. So I
>> did so, took Moses (cats name) back and he had turned negative. Not to say
>> that I did not believe the test but too, Moses for yet another test and he
>> was again negative. He's still with me.
>>
>> Bunny (Buns for short) is a female, abandoned at an apartment complex
>> (notorious for abandoned, feral and stray cats). She was less than a year
>> old when she was brought to me on Easter Morning. Thus her name, Bunny. I
>> put her in a separate room, then took to vet to be tested. She tested
>> positive for FeLv. Kept her isolated, did not spay, re-tested in about 3
>> months, she tested negative. Tested again to be sure. Negative again so got
>> her spayed.
>>
>> However, my luck did not hold very well. Recently had a rescued kitten
>> brought to me. I took Taffy to a local Humane Society in Bulverde Texas.
>> They tested her prior to putting her up for adoption. When they tested her,
>> she tested positive for FeLv. I took her back, found her a foster home with
>> a wonderful foster mom, who kept her isolated for 3 months but Taffy still
>> tested positive at the end of the isolation period. Fortunately, Foster mom
>> loves her and although Taffy doesn't mix in to the community of 7 cats that
>> Foster Mom has, Taffy lives with Foster Mom's dog in a spare bedroom and
>> gets to socialize with the cats except during feeding time. Taffy is
>> perfectly happy with the arrangement. So is the dog.
>>
>> The adults probably contracted FeLv during mating behavior. I suspect that
>> Taffy got it from her birth mother but was not able to fight off the virus
>> as a kitten because she did not have very good care and ended up as a little
>> street stray.
>>
>>
>> From: Shelley Theye <ve...@bellsouth.net>
>> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:49 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Question about FeLV/FIV testing
>>
>> Lee,
>>
>> Can you explain more about the 2 month period for the adults that you have
>> that threw off the virus?
>> Do you know when they were first exposed, in other words could they have had
>> the FeLV virus for more than 2 months
>> before they ever were tested?
>>
>> Shelley
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Lee Evans wrote:
>>
>> > I have had a lot of success with adult cats who threw off the virus in
>> > about 2 months and tested negative from then on. For kittens, they may or
>> > may not have been actually positive. Since their immune system is not
>> > fully developed, they might not throw off the virus as soon as adults. Too
>> > bad about the idiot vet who gave the adopters such ridiculously incorrect
>> > advice. Keep the kittens for another 4 weeks, then re-test. You really
>> > should find them a home with a person who understands that a positive test
>> > does not mean the kitten should be killed. If they are still looking and
>> > feeling well, let them live. A home with no other cats or with
>> > cat-friendly dog is the best for this type of kitten.
>> >
>> >
>> > From: Betheny Laubenthal <bailleyspetc...@gmail.com>
>> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
>> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 7:04 PM
>> > Subject: [Felvtalk] Question about FeLV/FIV testing
>> >
>> > What's the earliest that testing using a SNAP test for FeLV/FIV can be
>> > done so that it is accurate? I know that if it is done early on, it can
>> > be inaccurate.
>> > The reason I asked is that we adopted out a 10 week old kitten July 16.
>> > We did not test. I don't like testing before 16 weeks. We pulled the
>> > kitten and her sister from another state. Mom was in a high kill shelter.
>> > She was PTS before we could rescue her. The rest of the litter was PTS.
>> > Miles and Journey were the only ones left.
>> > Today, the kitten (Miles) tested positive for leukemia and was PTS (the
>> > ill informed vet used scare tactics on the owner and made the owner think
>> > that her dogs could get it). I was called after the fact.
>> > What is proper testing protocol? Vaccination protcol? I use a 4 way with
>> > feline leukemia, killed virus.
>> > --Beth
>> >
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