That's interesting Carmen, I wonder if having different males father the kittens could be the reason some were positive and other's negative when the mother was negative. I guess we'll never know.
Lorrie On 06-02, Carmen Conklin wrote: > 1. RE. Immunity. > Hi, Lorrie, I read with interest your post and wanted to weigh in > on an interesting circumstances that happened at our sanctuary some > years ago which made us determine that we had to test every cat and > kitten in a litter. We had a mother cat come in who was pregnant. > She was NEGATIVE for any virus (several tests) She had five > kittens. Two of those kittens were Positive FeLV and three were > negative (from then on) Since then we have had others tell us a > similar story. Something to do in the breeding part I believe. > The post made me think of that mother cat and her five kittens. > Carmen _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
