I do believe that Stress has a lot to do with the FELV becoming active and secondary infections doing more damage. My Nitnoy had been feral, lost a tail to a raccoon just days before I found her and then was afraid of the other cats because she was so small and they were so big. She grew less worried about them the longer she was with me, but previous stresses had taken their toll on her. At least she had 2 years of love and safety.
---- Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote: > You could drive yourself crazy worrying about all of that. I had two cats > living in a group of 12 for over 13 years. When they were very old, they > developed renal failure. I took them for sub-q therapy as I do all my renal > compromised cats until I see that the situation has progressed beyond a good > quality of life. However, Tigger and Twerp developed some other symptoms that > were very odd. Twerp had been tested twice for FeLv, Tigger once in the past. > The vet suggested another test. Both were positive and active in the virus. > Both passed away several days after the test. The other 10 cats who had lived > with them, groomed and been groomed by them, shared food, litter boxes and > sleeping nests never tested positive. All are gone now, most living to age 14 > and over, all from renal failure except one who had an ear tumor that > progressed rapidly. He had to be euthanized because it was inoperable. I > really feel that worrying and giving off negative feelings to > the cats is going to do more harm than the exposure to the virus. You have > to let go sometimes and leave it to the Universe to decide. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! >________________________________ > From: Margo <toomanykitti...@earthlink.net> >To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:16 PM >Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] For Chang......Cat dying at home > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Lorrie <felineres...@frontier.com> >>Sent: Apr 27, 2013 1:00 PM >>To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >>Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] For Chang......Cat dying at home >> >>I also wonder why this indoor cat suddenly became FelV positive<< > > > I've been wrestling with this. My + boy has been here since Jan of >2012, and tested negative before I integrated him into one of my cat groups. >After a very stressful bout with FLUTD and catherization, he just never >recovered. Bloodwork eventually showed a very low WBC count, and a subsequent >SNAP was positive for FeLV, neg for FIV. So, now I've exposed all those cats >who live with him. I've been trying to figure it out, and here's one excerpt >that helped my begin to understand. I've also included the link to the whole >article, but here is the relevant paragraph. > > " It’s the apparent incidence of regressive FeLV infection that will >continue to challenge all of us…ie, what are the clinical consequences of >latency in a SNAP negative, healthy cat. Based on information available today, >the odds favor the cat…there is a good chance the cat will remain healthy, may >eventually clear the proviral DNA, and they are NOT shedding FeLV as long as >the virus remains as proviral DNA (latent). Some, however, don’t do as well…a >small number of regressive infections will re-activate…this is the adult >cat…with a history of having been healthy and FeLV negative for some time >(years even). And despite the fact they may have never encountered another cat >throughout life…they appear to develop disease spontaneously and may become >progressive (IFA or SNAP positive, sick cat)…or…they may develop complications >of their infection, including solid tumors (FeLV is an oncogenic >retrovirus)…and may become IFA > or SNAP negative!" > >Here's a link to the complete article; > >http://www.fvmace.org/FVMA_83rd_Annual_Conference/Proceedings/PDFS/2012%20FeLV%20&%20FIV.pdf > > It's really discouraged me. Makes me think it's probable that all my >"new" cats (those acquired since my move here in 2006) were once infected, and >possibly latent. They've all come from this neighborhood. Right now I have one >that has to become a housecat, but has been an outside cat all his 4 years. >He's tested negative, and I've arranged for him to get the rFeLV vaccine, but >is there any point? I just don't know. > > I'm very interewsted in what others think. This is all new to me. In >30+ years of rescue, I've never had a cat test positive for FeLV. > >Still trying to get my head around this. > >Margo > >_______________________________________________ >Felvtalk mailing list >Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
