Hi Anna, I rescue and have many cats. Testing them at 3 or 4 months old is usually a good time to see if they are positive or negative. I have lost many positive kittens who were born with the virus which they contracted from their mother. However some can throw off the virus. If your kitten who is approximately 4 months old had a positive mother he could still be positive, but he may have an strong immune system and be fine. With younger kittens I always test twice once at about 8 weeks and again at around 4 months to be sure of the status. Please let us know how this kitten is? Hopefully he will test negative.
Lorrie On 01-25, Anna Summers wrote: > 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 4 months 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 > > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
