NEVER TAKE CATS TO HUMANE SOCIETY. TRY TO FIND A NO KILL SHELTER. ---- Mercy Cats <[email protected]> wrote: > I just found out that a couple of young cats (nine months old or so) that had > been abandoned in a county park, and that I caught and took to a local humane > society last month, were euthanized because they were felv+. The cats > probably wouldn't have survived the virus; they were emaciated and one had > lost the sight in one eye because of an untreated URI. But the shelter tried > to tell me that felv is ALWAYS fatal, and I realize it's difficult to get > people to adopt + cats, but I know some adult cats can shake off the virus. > Our garage cat, Snowball, originally came to us from our veterinarian because > we were the only ones who would take a leuk+ cat. That was in December 2008. > At the time we had Harley who was dumped as an FeLV kitten. Harley died > six weeks later. Snowball tested negative for FeLV in August 2013 and again > in February 2014. I've seen a few postings by people who have also had cats > go from (+) to (-). Does this happen more often than most people think? > >
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