Hi All, I live in Chile, and the feline specialist that we were so lucky to find explained it this way to me when only one of the two kittens we rescued tested positive. She says that a kitten will find a teat that they prefer on the mother, based on taste and smell, and that they will nurse only on that one and not move around. She said that a kitten will wait it's turn when there aren't enough to go around. She said that since it's a virus, it is possible that only one or some of the teats are infected, and therefore it would only be passed to the kittens that nursed on those particular ones.
It seems like a plausible explanation. Can anyone out there concur about the selective nursing or possibility that if a mother is positive that not all of her teats would be infected? Mike _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
