Hi and welcome. I'm so very sorry to hear about Scully; my heart goes out to you.
Had Scully been tested before and been negative? I had a cat, Encore, who had repeatedly tested negative, became rather suddenly ill (thin and anemic), and tested positive for FeLV at about 4 years of age. The only viable explanation was that she had latent virus sequestered in her bone marrow and something triggered the virus to become active.
Because this sort of thing does happen, my vet is now recommending (albeit with the encouragement of the test manufacturer) that any time a cat presents with a serious health problem that they also be re-tested for FeLV.
I hope your other kitty continues to do well; he must be missing his friend terribly as you are.
Take care, Julie
Cherie A Gabbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First of all I am very sorry to hear of your loss. I am sure Scully had a very full life with you.
I would also like to say Hi and Welcome, We have had tons of list problems recently, but we are getting through them, I had to pull your email off of archives because it did not post on my system.
This group is wonderful and full of information, we can help and listen and just be here to support if needed. I signed on in January right after I lost my kitty suddenly to FeLV and since then I have had another kitty come up positive.
I talked to my vet and was informed that if you get the FeLV shot and test after, the cat most likely will come up negative, because if the cat is positive and then gets the immunization shot which is also positive, then two positives will make the test come up negative. So I ask you was Rookie, previous vaccinated against FeLV and if he was then he could very well be positive, now. The same would go for Scully, Scully might had had the virus and been vaccinated before testing for the virus therefore would come up negative, until you saw symptoms.
Again sorry for you loss.
Cherie
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Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:06:24 -0800Hi,I am new to this list and had some trouble signing up last week. However, I will post the update first and then the original email I had tried to send. On Sat. Feb 12, I put my little friend Scully to rest. She was really beginning to suffer the effects of FelV and I couldn't bear to watch her anymore. Walking became difficult and she absolutley refused to eat or drink. She looked at me as if to say "it's okay mom, I need to go and you'll be fine." My husband and myself and Rookie (her best feline friend of 9 years) all went with her to the vet and were with her when she was gone. We all cried (even the vet) - however, once it was over there was such a sense of peace and relief for her. Now the hard part is getting on without her. Rookie was tested that day as well -came up negative (which I don't understand). I have too many questions to type here today. This was like a bomb dropped on us all. This is my first experience with this disease and now I need to learn more about it. Thanks just for listening!Original message.....Hello,I'm having trouble subscribing to the list so I will just try to post this. I just found out that my 10 year old cat, Scully, has FelV. Since Christmas she has been battling runny eyes and sneezing. Starting quite minor to now more severe. However, she has not been responsive to any treatments and finally this week they tested her and she is positive. Now she is at the point where she will not eat or drink on her own (1 week and a half) and is tired. She seems like she is confused and is unsteady on her feet. Her blood work shows that everything is fine (white cells, red cells, etc). So I don't understand why this is happening to her. She has been a healthy, talkative and very lively cat her entire life. It just seems like one day something changed and she went down hill from there. My vet has put her on different meds and I am feeding her with a syringe. If there is no improvement by this week-end I am told it is best to put her down because she will not make it through this. I guess I am in shock because I never expected this happy little (indoor) girl to just suddenly become so ill. I imagined her dying of old age. She has been a loyal friend who has been through a great deal with me - so obviously this is hard to accept. I hate to give up hope but she means too much to me to see her suffer. As I am just learning about this infection for the first time I wonder if there is anyone out there with a simliar experience. The vet says that her presentation of the disease is not typical. But what is typical? I realize that there is nothing more that I can do for her, but any advice, info, etc. at this point would help me. I know that her 9 years have been great -she has been spoiled and loved. She was also rescued as a kitten from an awful house where she was starving and infected from ear mites where she would have died before she reached one. Also, I have another cat who is her best friend that also needs to be tested now. The vet is sure he too will be positive as they sleep, eat, groom together. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
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