Janine, as long as the kitten can get the FeLV vaccine and booster before being
exposed to their cat they should be fine. I will tell you my Stormie story.
I had caught 2 kittens from a dumpster colony I was feeding. Took Rocket and
Sissy to the vet and they tested FeLV+. Vet recommended PTS for them and the
entire colony. Needless to say I didn't do that.
There were also 2 gray kittens a couple of weeks older. I was able to catch
Stormie. Took her to the vet and she tested negative. I had Sissy and Rocket
in a taming cage in the garage. Since Stormie was negative, she took up
residence in the bathroom for 2 weeks. Started with the usual kitten shot.
Stormie got her FeLV vaccine when she got the 2nd series of kitten shots. She
got a booster 4 weeks later. After the booster I mixed all the kittens. That
was almost 2 yrs ago and all 3 are still doing fine. All my negative cats get
the annual FeLV booster.
It is hard to find good homes for kittens this yr. As long as you or the
family can isolate the kitten until she gets the vaccine and booster the kitten
should be fine.
JMO
Sharyl
--- On Wed, 9/30/09, janine paton patonjan...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
From: janine paton patonjan...@sbcglobal.net
Subject: [Felvtalk] question on adopting neg kitten to family with positive
cat
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 1:05 PM
Hello everyone,
I joined this list some years ago because as a rescuer, I
wanted information on how best to deal with leukemia
colonies we were running into. My organization also
does adoptions. We have a family interested in one of
our kittens as a companion to a 5 yr old positive cat.
Their cat tested positive for leukemia as a kitten and their
vet recommended euthanizing - they declined and the cat is
now a healthy adult, and still testing positive.
The kitten they are interested in is under 3 mos and was
the runt of the litter. One concern I have is the
number of vaccines plus neutering a cat that age has to go
through already in a relatively short period of time - then
add in the leukemia vaccine on top of that. And is the
vaccine good enough protection for a kitten, should a kitten
even get that vaccine?
Any thoughts on this, or if you do adoptions, how would you
handle it? I'm hesitating suggesting they look for
another positive youngster only because the family has young
children. We have plenty of kittens of all ages, and
young adults - does this matter?
Thanks for any thoughts - it's a very nice family with a
great reference from their vet.
Janine
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