I was in the exact same situation, except I only had one foster kitten who tested faint +. I was FREAKING OUT. The kitten later tested negative, as did all her littermates. I really wish they didn't have a faint +. I found it very confusing. The best info I could find said a faint + meant "the cat had been exposed to the virus, but it wasn't very active in its blood." Which told me then and still tells me not much. At any rate, not only are there lots of positives (and I'd imagine even more lots of faint positives) that are test errors, bad chemicals, who knows what, but there are lots of cats who are exposed and never develop the disease (though I guess they could test positive in that window of time while they were throwing it off.) It is a very confusing and frustrating disease to say the least. There are some here who don't believe in testing at all. There are also some on this list who believe that any cat who has been exposed to other cats - certainly in a shelter situation - has been exposed to FELV. So I was thinking, OMG my cats might have been exposed - when they almost certainly had already been at some point.
On 1/1/07, Barbara Oberst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kelley, Thanks! I have 9 cats; 3 of whom recently tested a faint + for FeLv (they are part of a litter of 4 foster kittens). This article gives me a bit of hope. My "real" cats were unwittingly exposed to 2 of the fosters, as they had originally tested negative. I decided to have them re-tested in early December, and now they are a faint positive. Meanwhile, they had been living with my adult cats, who had were not current on the FeLv vaccination (as they never had any exposure, I didn't rush to get it done.) *Kelley Saveika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: I thought this was interesting and one of the better ones out there. Much better than that Cornell page. I'm not sure what I think of his opinion of the SNAP test being highly accurate, though. Maybe it is in the context he is using the term. http://www.2ndchance.info/flv.htm -- Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time. http://www.rescuties.org Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life! http://astore.amazon.com/rescuties-20 *Barbara Hervey Oberst* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
-- Rescuties - Saving the world, one cat at a time. http://www.rescuties.org Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life! http://astore.amazon.com/rescuties-20
