Keep the Leuk+ guys in a separate room with their own litter box and their own scooper. Do not mix food or water and put any towels, beds, toys they use through the washing machine before using it for other cats. Washing hands all the time is not something that I normally do EXCEPT be careful about not getting any of their fluids on you (blood, urine, saliva, poop, eye/nose discharge) and then potentially getting that on your non-Leuk guys. Also - if you're keeping your Leuk guys in a separate room, make sure to block the bottom of the door so the cats can't put their paws through or smell one another and possibly sneeze on each other. You can get a piece of wood the length of the door and about 2 ft high and prop it up there with something heavy like one of those big litter pales or better yet - install some screws or other hardware on the wood around the door so you can just slide the wood in or out as you need to. Whatever you use make sure the cats can't move it because cats are very curious and they will try to move it or get through in order to see what's going on on the other side. If you regularly are going to have Leuk guys in your home either by pet sitting or rescuing them, I would get your non-Leuk guys vaccinated just as extra protection. Maribel ----- Original Message ----- From: Lorraine Johnston <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:10:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Felvtalk] Cleaning? Retesting?
Hello again, For those of you who have both FELV+ and - cats, how strenuous are your cleaning efforts? For instance, do you wash hands after just petting? Do you have your negative cats retested every year? Thank you, - Lorraine "Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine." - Alan Turing _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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