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 diffe
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 so
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 t
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
fight
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 f
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 o
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 fo
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