Hi Jim & Rhonda,
I've been dealing with felv for 6 or 7? years? now, and on the list. My first positive was already mixed with my household of 12 before I knew she was positive. (Mistake on first test)
None of my other cats ever caught leukemia from my positive. About 5 years ago I brought in another positive, and again, so far anyway, none of my negatives have 'caught' leukemia from my positive.
Are your own cats all healthy adults? Have they been vaccinated? They are probably ok. I don't test any of my positives or negatives anymore once they've been tested. There's no reason really. I don't think my positives are going to turn negative. They are adults. If one of my negatives gets sick and we can't figure out what's going on we will test for leukemia to rule out that they may have got it from one of my positives. I've lost several cats during the years, and as sick as they got with various illnesses, none of them caught the leukemia from the positives they lived with.
If I were in your place and my own cats were felv vaccinated, adult, and healthy I would not worry about the new cat and I would mix them. I would retest the new cat in 6 months with an IFA. It sounds from what you say, that it's going to be negative!
That's my 2 cents. Welcome to the list. I know how confusing all of this can be!
Tonya
Belinda Sauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Belinda Sauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jim & Rhonda,
Normally if she tested positive on the elisha, you would wait 90 days
and retest with the IFA, when was her original elisha test done and how
soon after was the IFA done? Isolating her is up to you, some people
mix some don't, I do and all of my negatives are vaccinated for FeLV and
in 10 years nobody has gotten it from Bailey. It is almost impossible
for a healthy, vaccinated adult cat to get infected from a positive, and
even if they were to get infected would almost certainly be able to
fight off the infection and stay negative, remember this is a healthy,
vaccinated adult cat we are talking about and the possibility still does
exist but is highly unlikely. I can only speak from my experience too,
I don't know whether we are just lucky or if my cats are extremely
healthy, but none of them has ever gotten it from Bail! ey and they all
eat, play, groom, and sleep together.
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Belinda
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