Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat
Last year I adopted a FelV positive kitten to a couple who had two neg. cats. They knew the kitten they wanted was positive, but they fell in love with him and took him anyway. I kept him until their other two cats were vaccinated against Felv and had time to build up immunity. I'm still in touch with this couple, and all their cats are doing fine, including the FelV pos. one who is now 18 months old. People who adopt a FelV cat or kitten are tops in my book! Lorrie On 09-30, MaryChristine wrote: hard choices re: all the usual vaccines plus the FeLV one, but these folks have taken on the task of dealing with a positive cat, which rather raises them up on MY scale of being good cat-parents if they're in love with the little one, and you can hold it long enough for the two shots (which would give you a bit longer to do the neutering, too), i'd probably go with them. MC ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat
Which goes to show you, when one of these litter critters decide you're their person, you don't stand a chance---LOL. Bravo to these adopters and to you for not giving up on kitty... Christiane Biagi Cell: 914-720-6888 ti...@mindspring.com Volunteer-St. Bernard Parish Animal Shelter -Original Message- From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Lorrie Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:04 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat Last year I adopted a FelV positive kitten to a couple who had two neg. cats. They knew the kitten they wanted was positive, but they fell in love with him and took him anyway. I kept him until their other two cats were vaccinated against Felv and had time to build up immunity. I'm still in touch with this couple, and all their cats are doing fine, including the FelV pos. one who is now 18 months old. People who adopt a FelV cat or kitten are tops in my book! Lorrie On 09-30, MaryChristine wrote: hard choices re: all the usual vaccines plus the FeLV one, but these folks have taken on the task of dealing with a positive cat, which rather raises them up on MY scale of being good cat-parents if they're in love with the little one, and you can hold it long enough for the two shots (which would give you a bit longer to do the neutering, too), i'd probably go with them. MC ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat
I've done that too - a friend of mine adopted 2 kittens quite a few years ago - 1 kitten from our group, and 1 from another. The other kitten at some point tested positive. She keeps the FELV+ kitten on low dose interferon, and the other kitten vacccinated. They must be 6 or 7 years old now, still 1 pos and 1 neg. Gloria On Sep 30, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Lorrie wrote: Last year I adopted a FelV positive kitten to a couple who had two neg. cats. They knew the kitten they wanted was positive, but they fell in love with him and took him anyway. I kept him until their other two cats were vaccinated against Felv and had time to build up immunity. I'm still in touch with this couple, and all their cats are doing fine, including the FelV pos. one who is now 18 months old. People who adopt a FelV cat or kitten are tops in my book! Lorrie On 09-30, MaryChristine wrote: hard choices re: all the usual vaccines plus the FeLV one, but these folks have taken on the task of dealing with a positive cat, which rather raises them up on MY scale of being good cat-parents if they're in love with the little one, and you can hold it long enough for the two shots (which would give you a bit longer to do the neutering, too), i'd probably go with them. MC ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
