Hi , I live in spain in a very rural are & last year I lost 2 cats who were
felv + , they were not in contacted with my house cats but one of them (
9yrs old ) is latent positive DNA with a low reading of the virus , I did
a quantative pcr , he was negative in the elisa test and I was told that he
is not contagious . my other 2 cats are vacinated against fel.
my question …..
As I see yourselves are up to date with all the latest things - someone left
a kitten on my wall just before christmas - he is now been in “ quarantine” for
5 weeks , he is about 4months old , I need to test him but when is the right
time to test kittens as I have read many article re: the anitbodies of the
mother so a kitten can test false positive.
I am keen to know , as he is on his own and hopefully he will be negative so I
then can vaccinate him as I am also told that, are they any special test to do
this , I dont want to do the basic snap test and I am happy to do the elisa and
a pcr test.
Hope you can help me , here in the area a live in which is very rural ,lots of
ferral cat the vets just give up on felv + , so I dont wont to ask my vet
until I am up to date with all the information.
thank you
anna
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