Give your rowdy little boy a chance. He sounds like my Harley, if there is trouble to get into, he does it. I have 2 positives, Annie 4 years and Nitnoy we are not sure, maybe 3. They are healthy, happy and loving cats. Would not gie them up for anything. Harley likes to help me on the computer. He sas help, I say different. Give him years of happiness and he will give you so much more back. ---- Anne Myles <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, wanted to introduce myself and my cats. > > I adopted two new adult kitties from a rural no-kill shelter in my area > a little over a month ago, after my 15-year-old cat passed away. Little > orange Dublin and hunky white and tabby C.J. are both about two years > old males -- Dublin more of an estimate since he was found as an adult > at a TNR station covered in oil on St. Patrick's Day (C.J. was in rescue > since he was about five months old). I adopted them both as being FeLV > negative, though I'd found out that Dublin had initially had a positive > ELISA, then a negative when he was retested after six weeks in > quarantine. The woman who runs the rescue swore to me (as her vet told > her) that false negatives are common but false positives are not. Well, > so much for that; I know better now. I had them retested after three > days at my house, because I learned that Dublin had had ten teeth > removed at a dental a few days before he came home and my vet's office > said that such bad teeth at a young age was a common sign of FeLV. And > yup, Dublin's third ELISA was a strong positive, as was a follow-up > IFA. C.J. tested negative, and got his first Purevax vaccination that > day, followed by the booster two weeks later. > > I agonized for a few days about sending Dublin back to the rescue, where > he'd go to a FeLV+ cat sanctuary, but he is such a special, amazingly > sweet cat (gives hugs and kisses, just amazingly social) and was so > thrilled with me and my home and is absolutely crazily besotted with my > greyhound! I couldn't break his little heart. So I've kept him, and > he and C.J. (also a wonderful, loving boy) mix, since C.J. was already > exposed to him at the rescue (along with most of their other cats!!). I > am really heartened by what I've read in the archives about how many of > you have mixed cats without the negative ones converting. I manage to > keep their food separate and change their water and scoop their litter > twice a day, but these guys play and wrestle a lot, which is nervous-making. > > Except for the bad teeth, Dublin seems really healthy. He did have a > bad case of chin acne when he came, but it's healed up really well. He > eats voraciously and has gained some weight, has a lovely silky coat, > and is becoming quite a rowdy little troublemaker too, always pouncing > on C.J.'s tail (he never played at the rescue). It's not unreasonable > to hope he might have a few good years, is it (though I know there's no > way to predict)? > > I've also seen mention of various supplements you give, and I wish > someone could give me a lowdown on what you essentially recommend (that > is reasonably affordable) and exactly how you dose it. > > Lots of pictures of the cats here if you want to see them: > http://s511.photobucket.com/albums/s357/PrairieProf/New%20cats/ > > Anne > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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