Hi Paola,
Nice to hear from you again. I go along with this approach also
(Beth's). I've also read that adult cats with healthy immune systems
aren't going to get the virus anyhow, at least with neutered healthy
adult cats.
Best of luck to you,
Gloria
On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Beth wrote:
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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