At 10:07 AM 2/26/2007, you wrote:
I am sort of rural, about 7 years ago we discovered one of our cats
who had been living with the group was FELV pos...first test was wrong..
Well we panicked and tokk in 18 other cats to be tested, They had
been living together for years and sharing food etc,,,,,,,All were
negative, We cleaned,,bleached and disinfected the house and kept
this poor little feral girl in her own room,,,,,She was pretty ill
and died in about a month despite a lot of treatment,....
8 years later and my cat population has doubled, I am caring for a
FELV cat for a girl for i year, Although Max basically has his own
room he share with an older female who is negative but vaccinated, he
does get out a lot and there is some contact, Do I worry, Heck
no......Is he healthy, YUP!!
I did the I.R protocol, then got some Feline Omega Interferon and am
now on Alferon,,,I will retest him in a few more months and hope he
cleared the virus. If not he will still have a happy wonderful loved life
My vets are wonderful and would never suggest euthanizing an FELV cat
or FIV either, Ther do not even worry about mixing,
Kelly
www.kellyscats.zoomshare.com
,
http://ucat.us/FELVFIVFIP.html
play out the wonderful articles on FeLV that phaewyrn has collected
on the above page, and sit down with your vet and go over them.
believe us, it doesn't matter what size city you're in, there are
good and bad vets everywhere--what matters is if they are willing to
learn.... for so long, the treatment of choice for FeLV was
euthanasia, so too many vets just stopped bothering to find out if
that had changed....
you gave elsa love and warmth, and a home--that can only be a good thing.
MC
On 2/26/07, Debbie <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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all of our cats are within 3 1/2 to 4 yr. group, so no one is
elderly. We have one cat that had problems with urinary tract
crystals, 2 with hormone problems (loss of hair by tail), and only
one that is what I would call thin. They all run, jump, play, eat
well, and like I said they have all their other vaccinations.
Does the group feel like a snap test is accurate at all? If we have
them tested can I know that a negative is truly a negative? I doubt
we will be able to retest everyone if we test all 14 now.
How do you think a vet should approach this sort of thing? I live in
a rural community so our vets are more than likely not exceptionally
qualified on feline leukemia. No insult intened.
-----Original Message-----
From: TenHouseCats
Sent: Feb 26, 2007 12:35 PM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: Re: Help needed
have to agree with what the majority have said--by now, the others
have all been exposed anyway, and since 70% of healthy, adult cats
can be exposed and throw the virus off, the odds that your menagerie
is mostly safe if high. as far as i know, once a cat has been
exposed and has thrown off the virus, further exposure isn't going
to affect it, so even if some ARE positive, the others aren't going
to "re-catch" it, and separating out any positives now is sort of
locking the barn door after etc. i'd only really worry about any
new cats brought into the house, and if i were going to actually
test, i'd probably only test the high-risk populations, if any: the
very young, the very old, and the otherwise
health/immune-compromised. i DID test everyone almost seven years
ago when a cat who'd lived with us, who had tested negative, died
from FeLV, and everyone who'd lived with her tested negative,
including some kittens and elders (high risk)--my vet recommended,
at that time, that i not bother retesting until someone became
symptomatic..... no one ever has, and i've never retested.
MC
On 2/26/07, Rosenfeldt, Diane <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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If they all *seem* healthy now, chances are that most if not all of
them *are* healthy. I'm assuming the girl who got sick already had
FeLV when she came to you and has been asymptomatic up till now (
i.e. that there's not a source among your other cats from whom she
could have caught it). I hope this is the case. Many listmembers
will tell you that they mix positive and negative cats without the
disease spreading, and I believe some of these aren't even
vaccinated. The vaccine is a further safety net of course -- if
vaccinated, your negative kitties should remain negative even mixed
with the positives.
Oh -- I forgot to mention in my other post just now that you should
always insist on a retest (in a few months) with the IFA test. This
test has to be sent out to a lab for processing, but is more
reliable than the in-office (Snap or ELISA) test.
Diane R.
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From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:07 AM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: Re: Help needed
the price is for what they call a snap test, a vaccination, and a
booster in a few weeks. This was the cheapest vet in a tri county
area. We live in Ohio.
do you really think there is a possibility that they won't test
possitive? If some do and some don't do they need separated, if vaccinated?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelley Saveika
Sent: Feb 26, 2007 11:59 AM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: Re: Help needed
Hi Debbie,
I would check around with other places in your area to see if you
can find the tests cheaper. I can get a combo test here for $16
per cat, which would be way less than $1,000.
At this point I'm not sure I'd be in a rush to test all of
them. They have been together and likely either have it or they
don't (most likely not).
On 2/26/07, Debbie
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
The cats were all spayed and neutered and had all shots except the
feline leukemia. They have been to the vet yearly or whenever
needed. We aquired so many at once we could not afford the testing
and shots. A lady I worked with found 3 kittens in a dumpster, 2
weeks later 4 more - we bottle raised all of them and they all
lived. At that same time a stray came in winter and had 4 babies.
They all lived also. A month after this we took a trip 500 miles
away and found 2 kittens starving in a field in the middle of
nowhere. We brought them back. These were tested (not sure why vet
decided this) and they were ok at that time. All the cats got along
and seldon fought. If they did it was not the biting, scratching,
etc... Soon after that a cat roamed up at a barbeque we had. She was
young and in heat. We did not want her to get pregnant and she
stayed so we brought her in. She was a very shy cat. She liked
attention but seldom went near the others. Her eyes, nose, and mouth
were clear (no discharge). A few weeks ago she started throwing up.
We took her to the vet. She had nver been seriously ill (none have).
They are all around 4 yrs, old now. Anyhow the vet said something
was probably stuck in her intestines so they operated. All they
found was enlarged lymph nodes. They did a biopsy and said they were
not cancerous. She started doing better but then it was hard to get
her to eat. We took her back in and they said her lungs had fluid in
them. They drained it off. After all of this they came back and said
she tested postive for leukemia. They recommended putting her to sleep.
Now we have a nightmare. We have all the others, plus just paid out
$700.00 for a cat that they ended up putting down. Don't know if the
operation threw her into it all or what.
We are going to have the others tested but it will be over $1000.00.
We feel awful. If you don't have the money though it isn't always as
some people think to keep up with everything.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelley Saveika
Sent: Feb 26, 2007 11:25 AM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: Re: Help needed
I don't think anyone can give you odds on that. I would say it
would be unlikely that they will all be positive and quite possible
that none will be positive. If there is anything I have learned
from this list it is that FELV is pretty hard to catch. Were any of
the cats vaccinated against FELV?
On 2/26/07, Debbie
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
What are the odds of having 15 cats and one tests postive - will the
others all be postive? These are cats that are strictly indoors now
in a 1200 square foot house. The infected cat was not outwardly sick
and di not socialize with the other cats, however they used same
litter boxes and ate from same dishes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. All cats are close to same
age, different litters, aquired at the same time.
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