Good for you. Mine r healthy too. If it an broke ,don't fix it. It the cat tests neg. why wait for it to be positive? regards, CAthy
--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Natalie <[email protected]> wrote: From: Natalie <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] How long can FeLV stay dormant? To: [email protected] Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 10:02 PM Ideally, when a cat is tested for anything, FIV/FeLV, it should be isolated for three months and retested. However, rescue groups cannot do it because of space limitations, especially isolation areas. When a cat tests negative, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's true - the cat may just have been exposed to it, and it would show up 3 months later.... I've never had a FIV cat living with healthy ones, nor can I do it as a rescue organization. However, we had one cat that tested negative for FIV/FeLV, and many years later, started being ill....my vet asked for some blood test at the lab, but they mistakenly tested for FIV - it turned out that she was positive. No one living with her ever became sick, to this day. She died about two years later at age 14/15. However, FIV is not as serious as FeLV, which seems increasingly more mysterious to me after having been reading all the posts about FeLV+ cats living with healthy ones. The two FeLV+ cats we have, are very healthy, exhibit absolutely no signs of any symptoms. I'm not sure what exactly it means when someone says that a FeLV cat with no symptoms could be a carrier; it can't be that the cat is perfectly healthy and can't mean that at some point, will not become symptomatic, does it? I do everything I can to keep them very healthy with supplements, good food, TLC, etc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maureen Olvey Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Felvtalk] How long can FeLV stay dormant? I've heard from some of the vets that FeLV can hide in the bone marrow for a while before ever showing up on a combo test. How long do you think that can happen before the combo tests shows positive? Anyone have experience with this? If the FeLV + cat and the other cat have been living together for a year and the healthy cat's combo test was negative after a year together with lots of exposure, is there a chance it is still hiding in the healthy cat's bone marrow and not showing up yet? It seems to me that a year would be enough time for the virus to show up in a test. "I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't..the pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further." - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
