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I am writing in hopes that someone may shed some light on my situation. I
have previously adopted 4 FeLV +ive kitties who have all crossed over so I
am relatively familiar with the disease, however, I am now faced with a very
unusual situation. My fiance and I have 10 inside only kitties including
one 2 year old kitty named Bear who is the subject of this email. My
fiance's mother rescued Bear and his sister when they were just tiny little
puffs of fur and hand raised them until she found what she thought was a
good home for them with a friend. Before the 'lady' (and I use that term
very loosely) took them they were both tested for FeLV and were negative.
The 'lady' did not take care of them at all and shortly after giving them up
my fiance's mother found them in the middle of a state highway, scraggly,
and very scared. We took them in and Bear developed a URI about 4 months
later so we took him to our doctor. She suggested testing him again just to
be on the safe side and much to our shock and dismay it came back +ive. She
then sent bloodwork to an outside lab and the results were -ive. So we had
him retested 3 weeks later in house and it was +ive. We have been on an
emotional rollercoaster needless to say so we waited 4 months to retest him.
Yesterday we took him in to our doctor and his in house results came back
-ive so again our doctor sent bloodwork out and she just called to let me
know it came back +ive. So he has been tested 6 times (at 4 different vets
with 4 in house and 2 to an outside lab) and they have been -, +, -, +, -,
+, -, and +. We are very devistated and our vet has said she has never seen
anything like it and she deals with FIV and FeLV kitties. She emailed
another vet who specializes in FeLV and I am hoping she can shed some light
on our situation. She did suggest testing the bone marrow - has anyone had
experience with this test? Has anyone had a situation like this? We had
all our 9 other kitties tested and they all came back -ive includig his
sister who stays with him. I would appreciate any advice at all - we are so
heartbroken and would like to hear from anyone. Please feel free to email
me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you!
- Neg, Pos, Neg, Pos, Neg, Pos, Neg, Pos....Advice Please!!! Julie Shrock
