Re: average lifespan

[Cherie A Gabbert]

My kitties lifespan was a wonderful loving fun filled 6 months old (Snowball) he had the virus for we are assuming 1 month and then when he was fixed the anesthetic actived the virus then it was only 1 more month of love.

 

Amber on the other hand had in dorminate in her body she tested negative twice before and then retested positive in January and she is doing great no problems to speak of and she is

3 1/2, she was a stray so we think she had it from the get go, so she has lived with me for two years with no real symptoms, but she is on Interferon, just in case.

 

Cherie

"Gloria B. Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yo Jenn -

My darling Calawalla Banana Boo-boo was 3 years old. (2004)

My sweet Mittens was maybe 2.5 yrs. (2003)

My baby Mr. Black kitty was FIV and FELV+ - vet said he was 18. I
don't believe it. Think he was a bit younger than that - 10 yrs
maybe? (2002)

Gloria


>Well, my Moogie, who was born with FELV, lived 18 months, but it
>varies widely, and also, I did not take drastic measures to prolong
>her life. Had I done everything to the extreme, she may have lived
>to be 2 years old. I'm not really sure what the "average" life span
>of FELV+ cats is, but one study has been done on the lifespan
>expectations for cats infected with feline leukemia virus that
>tested persistently viremic (continuously tested positive). In the
>study, reported by Dr. Susan Cotter in the November 1991 issue of
>the Journal of the AVMA, most cats died within two years but about
>20% of the cats lived three or more years. Of course, if everyone
>here tells you how old their FELV+ furangels were when they passed
>on, then you'll get a good sampling, and be able to draw your own
>conclusions, but you'll have to know how long they had the virus,
>not just how long they lived, because some of them may have caught
>it later in life, and that would skew the numbers.
>
>This could potentially be a very interesting thread, I wonder if we
>qualify as a "study group"?
>
>Jenn
>http://ucat.us
>http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html

Have a purrfect day

Cherie