Paola -
In the past I have always mixed my positives & negatives. I did this on the
advice of my vet, who said I would simply stress the positives by keeping them
separate. I vaccinated my negatives every 6 months, again, on the advice of my
vet. One of my FeLV negatives was an FIV+ & in all the years I mixed, none of
my negatives, including my FIV cat, ever go the FeLV.
Right now I do not mix simply because one of my negative cats has Stomatitis &
I recently spent $3,000 saving his life from Hemobartonella, which we believe
he got from a depressed immune system because of the steroids he is on. So,
understandably, I am paranoid right now about exposing him to anything else.
But when I did mix (and I had 5 positives & 5 negatives for a long while), I
didn't separate them in any way. They all shared food, water, litter; they
groomed
each other, etc.
All my negatives have been retested several times over the years & have
remained negative.
I even had a foster kitten who had FeLV & died from FIP. He lived in my bedroom
with one of my negative cats for months. My cat never got the FeLV or the FIP.
Beth
Dont Litter, Fix Your Critter! www.Furkids.org
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, paola cresti <[email protected]> wrote:
From: paola cresti
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] IMPORTANT CAT VACCINE WARNING
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 12:17 AM
a question, I saw posts from 2 people having FeLV+ cats in the house with non
affected cats. How do you gys manage that?
I just rescued a stray that turned out to be incredibly sweet and FeLV+ but I
have 6 others that are indoor/outdoor so they are all vaccinated for FeLV but
since it's not 100% I am keeping rescue kitty in the garage and hoping to find
someone with a closed household willing to take him as a sole cat or an
additional cat to a household with another FeLV+ cat. Having no luck so far
(found a possible person with 2 infected cats in NY but I'm in Los Angeles)
I'm looking into what I must do if I keep him and for this I also joined this
listserv. Do you have them mingle? I figure food dishes should
definitely be
kept separate. My cats are indoor/outdoor and I caught a feral last year who
was
also FeLV+ so I'm thinking it's been going around and if they were likely to
catch it they might have already done so?
I know it's not an exact science but this cat's desperate about being left
alone
in a room, I sit with him for a while but when I leave he cries for a really
long time.
Sorry for the long post.
thanks
Paola
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