Re: one sibling negative one postive/long-sorry

[t.weese]

You might want to try the interferon, you need to start it when they are relatively healthy.  I have my remaining 3 on it and I honestly don't know it it does help, but it's not really expensive.  I really think that it likely that Seven Layer is positive....I mean, when you describe his other problems....or maybe he is just naturally immune since other sibs had it and he has tested negative.  Either way, I'm one of those that mixes positive and negatives so I don't see any reason to separate these babies.  I wish you good luck and as you know, many folks here can/will give you good info on supplements.  For my two "healthy" FELV+ babies I use only interferon (7 on/7 off); but my one FELV+ boy w/terrible gum inflammation gets CoQ10 and sometime Lysine/Vit E and C plus daily Antibiotics. tracy Barbara Lowe wrote: since june 20, have had two feline siblings since about 3 weeks old when i rescued them from kill pound on behalf of a small rescue group. (also took in black kitten not related who tested postive and lived til beg. of jan for almost 8 months). the two sibs tested negative at the time or now that i think about it, i bet the vet only tested a couple of the 3 sibs(there was a third but she died after two weeks-causes unknown). so now dont' know whether this positive was postive all along or did the poor little guy "catch" it from my household of critters.the problem is the two sibs-Jelly Roll(+) and Seven Layer (-) have always eaten together from same plate, played together, peed together etc...they are both "fixed."  I can't keep them separate in this house-old  house with open doorways and there are 6 other cats besides-two adults with leukemia-one with gingivitis the other showing no signs at all. other 4 cats fine except for Puff Daddy who has had balance problems since birth so he's kinda the Gomer Pyle of the bunch. SEven layer had herpes and showed signs-sneezing and running red eyes. Jelly Roll none. so while I had people interested in adopting the two when younger, they all wanted Seven Layer's eye problems to get resolved. I"ve had her on Lysine which helps during flareups. Jelly Roll shows no signs. (he also had an IFA test which was positive). They are now my babies and going nowhere!i have to go help with my mom who's two hours away so am away for 3-4 days at time and no pet sitter will feed raw(that i can find around here) so the critters are all on Wellness and Pet Guard canned.I ordered Pat McKay's C+ and supplement with that along with ambrotose from my traditional chinese vet and Pet Tinic.  Mr. Bean my 6 yr old leukemia + seems to be doing well on this all.I do not wish to go thru the sorrow I went thru losing the black kitten in Jan. (Lenny) so what else should I try?  should I ask about Interferon?thank you all for being there/here. Otherwise I never would have had the 7 happy months I did with Lenny.barbara