I have also had FelV + cats get dreadfully sick, and one died from the FVRCP shot. Now I never give them to positive cats. I just let them live a stress free life with lots of TLC for as long as they live. I have two positive cats who are 5 and still seem just fine, but most die in less than a year but sometimes they make it a bit longer.
Lorrie > 1) A negative IFA does NOT mean the cat is not FeLV positive. It simply > means the virus is not replicating in his bone marrow. If a cat has a > positive SNAP test, he is still positive. If you do get an IFA & it is > positive, it simply means he will not throw the virus off. > 2) Those 3-way SNAP tests that test for heartworms are notoriously > unreliable. Our shelter stopped using them after we had a slew of cats > test postitive for FeLV. They were retested on the 2-way test twice, & > and came up negative. > 3) It is too late now, but I would never give an FelV cat an FVRCP > vaccine. I did that once to 2 sisters I had. One immediately became ill > (she had been healthy up until then) & died shortly afterward. Her > sister died soon after. I have heard of other FeLV cats getting sick > right after FVRCP vaccines. No need to stress their immune systems out > unless there is some seriously good reason why you need to vaccinate. > 4) I don't think L-Lysine can hurt. It's pretty cheap & you can get it > in a powder form you can sprinkle over their food. > 5) I have used Interferon in the past, but from what I understand > it takes a long time to work. I stopped because I felt like I was > stressing the cats out too much with the daily medicine routine. Plus > you have to give it to them the right way. You can't just squirt it > randomly in their mouths. > 6) I think the best thing you can do is feed a high-quality food & keep > stress down. _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
