[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,It's been awhile since I've been here but I wanted to share my good news and perhaps give the group a little more data for the collective FELV knowledge base you've got going here.To start at the end, Saturday my girls were retested and while Lucy is still positive, Izzie has thrown it and is now negative! Yippee Izzie!I thought it might be helpful for those of you with questions about "throwing it" to have a timeline:March 15 - I adopted Lucy and Izzie, sisters, at age 4 months, supposedly both FELV negative.April - May - Lucy had recurring URI's, she would get sick, I'd put her on antibiotics, a week after she was off of them she'd get sick again.May 29th - Lucy tested FELV positive, Izzie negative. This led to some agonizing on my part about whether or not to keep them together. Thanks in large part to the information I got from this group, I kept them together knowing that Izzie could wind up positive, but willing to take the risk.July 7th - Izzie gets spayed and tests positive. The vet tells me there is "virtually no chance" Izzie will throw it and that most likely the May negative on Izzie was false.October 28th - the vet retests (she didn't want to because she was convinced Izzie was still positive but I insisted because I had a "feeling", I also gently reminded her that they told me Lucy wouldn't make it to her first birthday, a birthday which is next Monday and she appears to have no intention of not making it!) And now Izzie is negative!My best guess is that Lucy was exposed at the shelter to a pos kitty and for some reason it didn't enter Izzie's system until late June or early July and Izzie was able to fight it. They are amazing little best friends and I think Izzie is going to help keep Lucy healthy!!Maggie
