Kitten potentially exposed to FeLV

Hi, I'm new to this site, and have a question. This past weekend, I answered an ad in the paper for a kitten found in backyard of someone's house. I went to the house, and the man there told me the kitten showed up at his doorstep about 1 month ago. They he had been feeding him, and I saw the

Need Home or Foster Home, Chicago IL

Hello all, I was wondering if you knew of anyone who would be willing to take in a 2 year old FeLV+ cat I adopted. I have two other cats that I do not want to risk exposing, although I may already have. I am in the Chicago area but willing to travel to find her a good home. Any information or

RE: Kitten potentially exposed to FeLV

MaryAnne, Welcome to this list! I do not currently have an FeLV cat, but from what I've learned, it is rather difficult to transfer. The kitten would need to have come in contact with saliva from those cats or been bitten by them, etc. I would compare it to the difficulty in transferring AIDS

RE: Kitten potentially exposed to FeLV

Hi, Maryanne -- You'll get some great advice from this bunch, but just a couple things: 1.FeLV isn't as drastically contagious as is often thought. The virus doesn't live long in air, and is mostly transmitted through exchange of bodily fluids, so if the kitten hasn't been eating or

RE: Kitten potentially exposed to FeLV

Hi Diane - Thank you for the advice. I will be having the kitten tested this Wednesday with the ELISA in the doctor's office test, it has not yet been tested. Should I ask then for the IFA test if comes back negative? I'm not sure the sequence of what to ask for when. I was just wondering if

RE: Kitten potentially exposed to FeLV

I thought you had already had the kitty tested, sorry. You might not even want to bother with the ELISA, actually, since it is not that accurate either way. I have limited experience but if it were me, knowing what I do now, I'd go straight for the IFA, and then have another IFA in 3 months or

RE: Need Home or Foster Home, Chicago IL

Welcome Dawn, I was in your place in April. I already had 3 cats (not FeLV+), but I took in a stray who was positive. I kept him in our home office room since I don't mix the positives and negatives. I did a lot of work looking for a home for him. I spent days on the computer emailing