Re: article about feline leukemia by Dr. Susan Little

[catatonya]

I would probably agree in your situation.  I still have a positive though, so mine are already exposed, so I wouldn't mind bringing another positive in if I had room.

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Faye Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Since all my cats have been tested and are negative, I would not bring a
positive cat into the household. Should one of my original 3 go positive, I
probably won't separate since all have been exposed to each other. Now, when
I added my last batch of kittens, I did separate for 90 days and all new
additions were tested before they finally were allowed contact with each
other. My newest additions were going to end up at the Humane Society where
their lives would have ended. Whatever time I can give them is more than
they were fated in the first place. They are all vaccinated. I can't
promise them anything except the moment and that is extremely high quality.

My original postive cat had been in my household (no cat was an outside cat)
for 10 months before getting sick. He had been tested the first 24 hours
that I owned him and he t! ested negative. My vet is convinced he had the
illness when tested but it was hidden in the bone marrow. Ten months later I
adopted two healthy kittens. The positive cat was obsessed with the new
kittens. He groomed them by the hour. Shared water, food, litter boxes and
bedding. However, he never bit the kittens or mated with them (all parties
were male). I had the kittens 3 weeks when the cat became ill. Thus the
nightmare began.

>From: catatonya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>My cats share dishes and litters. And the thing is, just like the message
>about Killian. She has never tested positive till now at 11 years old!
>And as far as they know she's never been exposed. I just don't think
>there's enough known about the transmission, etc... to come up with any
>! ;hard and fast rules to follow besides keeping positives away from young
>kittens and unvaccinated cats. That's about all I worry about now. The
>rest will have to take care of itself, because I don't think anyone can
>know what will happen.
>
>If one of my 11 year old cats comes up positive next month does it mean it
>caught it from my positive, or it's always had it 'sequestered' or
>something like this case with Killian? And as she says, even though Killian
>now tests positive she still is perfectly healthy! She may never get sick
>from it. Who knows? Evidently no one, so I'm not stressing myself or my
>cats out over things like that anymore. I did at first, but now I'm not.
>I would not bring in an unvaccinated adult or any kitten (unless it was
>already positive FOR SURE) into my household at this time. But I would
>bring in another positive, or an adult, healthy, vaccinated cat ( if I
&! gt;could add another cat to my already crowded household).
>
>t
>
>Faye Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>The virus is fragile and has a short life outside the body. However, fresh
>urine and fresh saliva would be a risk. However, it seems, based on a some
>people's experience that blood exchange is the most efficient means of
>transmitting the disease as in bites or being born to an FeLV mother. That
>does not mean that saliva, etc cannot pass the disease-- just that it
>"seems" to be harder to transmit this way. My two kittens were excessively
>groomed by my positive cat, shared food, water and litter boxes and thus
>far
>(24 months) have not been positive and they have each had 9 tests. Now, to
>complicate matters there seems to be some genetic protection for some cats.
>In other words, some cats are genetically prevented from getting the
>disease
>at all (small percentage) BU! T we have no way of knowing if our cats are
>genetically protected. My kittens may not have gotten the disease because
>a)they are genetically protected or b)the virus was too wimpy to infect or
>c)they did not lick themselves immediately after the positive cat licked
>them nor ate while the virus was still alive or d) some unknown fact or
>just
>plain luck or 3)they may yet still go positive.
>
>No one has said that the disease cannot be passed with saliva, urine,
>litter
>boxes etc. Some of us think that isn't the most likely means of
>transmission and we could very well be wrong but are willing to risk it by
>not segregating our negative and positive cats. This is not an easy
>decision and the answers are not black and white because there is a lot we
>still do not know about the disease.
>
>
> >From: Cherie A Gabbert
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> >Thank you for posting the article, but now that verifys my concern about
> >shared dishes and litter boxes. I have been told different things, one is
> >the virus can not live outside the body for a long period of time (15
> >! minutes) and weakens as time passes, and I am also told, in this article
> >too that shared dished and grooming can is the most common way of
> >transmission. I am confused, can anyone help me muddle through the facts.
> >Cherie
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Lisa and all who are interested,
> > I wrote to Dr. Susan about the possibility of her writing an article
> >for us and/or the website about feline leukemia and I got this response
> >today:
> >
> >Hi Anne:
> >
> >I wrote an article some time ago with basic information about FeLV:
> >http://www.winnfelinehealth.org/health/FeLV.html
> >
> >But I just don't have time to update it or write anything more indepth
>due
> >to my travel and lecture commitments right now.
> >
> >You are certainly welcome to continue to forward questions from the list
> &! gt;and I will do my best to answer them.
> >
> >Dr. Susan
> >Chapter Author, A Home Veterinary Guide, in:
> >The CFA Complete Cat Book
> >http://www.cfainc.org/catalog/books.html#completecatbook
> >
> >Feline Reproduction Manual:
> >http://catvet.homestead.com/ReproCD.html
> >
> >__^^__^^__^^__^^__^^__^^
> >Susan Little, DVM
> >Diplomate ABVP (Feline)
> >Bytown Cat Hospital
> >Ottawa, Canada
> >http://catvet.homestead.com
> >__^^__^^__^^__^^__^^__^^
> >
> >Anne and Jimi Too Cool, Simms, Sophie and other furry friends in MI
>
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