meds and vitamins?

[Peggy Ankney]

HI –   I’ve been reading lots of posts mentioning all sorts of medications for FeLV cats.  I know that I need to feed Scooter high quality food, and was advised to supplement it with non-ethylene glycol l-lysene and vitamin C.  Do I get this from a pet place or a natural foods store?  Should I also be giving him other meds?  So far he’s not showing any signs of distress or illness.  He’s 10 months old and just came home from the vet yesterday (shots and neutering) and you would never know he tested positive from his behavior.   And another thing – how do you keep your positive cats’ food bowls away from the neg, and vice-versa?  Montana and Karma are negative and are indoor/outdoor cats used to having dry food available 24/7.  They immediately went for the other’s bowls last night.  I can make sure they don’t share the canned food, as I watch over them as they eat it and take the dishes away when finished, but with the dry food, they don’t eat it all at once.  Is there a big risk in their sharing dry food?  I know the virus doesn’t live long outside the cat that and it’s spread in salvia.  I guess we could try to put the dry food outside, but this area has lots of strays and we don’t want to attract any more cats (or worse) to our house just now.  If anyone has found a simple solution to this, I’d love to hear it.  (Our house is small and difficult to section off, so all cats go everywhere.)   Thanks,  Peggy