has the NEW cat been tested? do you know its history? personally, unless i know that a new cat has had NO possibility of having been exposed to a positive in, oh, 120 days or so, i don't trust negative results any more than i trust positive ones.... IF the new cat is negative and you know it hasn't been in contact with anyone in that time period, i wouldn't worry--if your other cat was with the positive one all that time and has tested negative, my understanding would be that, for whatever reason, it was able to throw off the virus while simon was unable to, and isn't likely to test positive later on.
i don't know know, tho, if a cat that's thrown off the virus once has an immunity to later exposure from a new cat. juding from what's happened at the sanctuary, where cats tested positive at one point, lived with positives for extended periods of time (years, in a number of cases) and then were retested during routine vet work and found to be negative, that WOULD seem to be the case..... i'd be really concerned, tho, for other persians from that breeder--does she know about simon? has she checked her other cats? (the reason i don't trust negative tests without knowing the history of new additions is that i know of a situation where all cats were tested negative when they came into a household, but later a number tested positive and succumbed to FeLV-related complications. they STILL don't know who was the culprit.... ) -- MaryChristine AIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCats MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 289856892
