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Actually, right now I am not planning on
vaccinating them at all, especially FeLV vaccinations – I know this is always a controversial
issue for most of us – it’s a tricky situation for me, as all of my
corona virus positive kitties, which is 90 % of mine are going to have a
greater risk of developing FIP if I vaccinate them according to some research, and
I cannot afford to do that, either as FIP is very fatal once you get it unlike
FeLV. All of my cats are rescued,
but permanent residents of my house and am planning to
keep every single one of them for the rest of their lives. I have one set up with just FIV positive
cats. I have two sets up with corona virus positive
cats. I have another set up with corona virus
positive + uncertain FIV (test result has not been conclusive for some reason) And I have Ginger- Unfortunately, I don’t have a
changing room between Ginger’s room and others (I wish) – but I
keep a gown and a pair of pants in Ginger’s room and I put them on as
soon as I get there – and take them off before I leave the room. Usually,
before I leave the room, I put on a pair of plastic glove so that I can wash my
hands without touching anything before I get to the sink in the house. And there are always a stuff worry about
– my hair and so forth (I usually put it up so that it’s not
hanging down) – but I did not want drive myself to insanity too much
either - do
you think it’s safe enough?? -----Original
Message----- I would think that until
they are all vaccinated (if you're planning on doing that) your bleach and
clothes changing would do the trick. If you are tired of doing laundry,
use Lysol on the clothes, because Lysol will kill the virus. Depending on
what your set-up is, you could have a changing room between the rest of the
population and the FeLV+ room and keep your Lysol in there and keep the same set
of clothes for Ginger. Are your kitty residents fosters? I know
that sometimes that makes a difference for some multi-cat households on the
mixing question. Sorry
– correction!! I meant
– “even with the fact that most of my cats are NOT vaccinated for
FeLV ? -----Original
Message----- With
given the fact that most of my cats are vaccinated for FeLV ? When I
took Ginger in – I knew there is going to be a risk – but I wanted
to make sure I do everything I can given benefits/risk of all the factors. -----Original
Message----- With those precautions, I
think you're completely safe. The concensus is that it takes prolonged
intimate contact to transfer the virus and that the virus is extremely fragile
and short-lived outside the host. There are many people on this list who
mix their positives and negatives knowingly for various reasons and, list
members please correct me if I'm wrong, there is not one instance in a knowing
mix- with the negatives vaccinated, that the virus was transferred. There
are others who keep their positives separated but don't take your bleaching and
clothes changing precautions and I think that there also, no transmission of
virus has occurred. There are the sad cases where a FeLV+ was brought in
and the status was NOT known and the virus was transmitted to other negative,
non-vaccinated kitties. I am not
sure which doctor studied it, but I will do some research and try to find out. Do you
think there is a great risk of my other cats to get FeLV? I do worry –I wash my hands with
bleach (1-bleach & 8 water) all the time, before and after visiting Ginger,
and change my clothes and socks every time, and before and after – do you
think there is still a risk? I read
that FeLV virus does not live outside of the body more than a few seconds (and
some other literature says “a few hours” and I am not sure what is
more realistic information – do you know? I am curious) – I would
appreciate any of your input on this – because I have 20 plus cats in my
house though they don’t have a direct contact at all with Ginger, I do
not want to assume that it is ok -
and vice versa, most of my other cats are exposed to corona virus
positive. Thank
you! Hideyo -----Original
Message----- Hideyo, After going back
and forth, I decided not to take Ginger to her appointment yesterday after all.
She has been doing well, and I wanted to minimize any chances of
stressing her if I could avoid it. She is a feral cat, and she is
extremely skittish and I guess, since she has been doing so well, I did not
want anything to change that – That’s said,
do you guys think that I should still get her checked up by my vet? Her
tongue (Dr. Basko tells me that the color of the tongue can be a better
indication of anemia than gums sometimes – especially, ginger has a
darker pigment) and gum looks good – but I would necessary know how
organs are doing except that she is just doing so fantastic and I am just so
proud of her – Also, one thing I
forget to mention yesterday regarding what’s suggested by Dr. Basko is
that to give Ginger VB12 and folic acid possibly twice a week – On a separate note,
I have a question. I was at an animal emergency clinic this past weekend with
one of others kitties – and overheard the conversation regarding
vaccinations causing cancer/tumors (which I am so aware of and do not vaccine
any of my cats) – but I heard the doctor saying – “well,
actually there was a test/research done on this topic – and what they
found out is that cancers/tumors are not caused by vaccine itself, but rather
by “injections” – they did testing with a control group with
saline solutions and they still found cancers/tumors from the group –
which concerns me now all of sudden with V-B injections – let me know if
you have any insight on this -
Do you
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