I missed most of this thread so I'm sorry if I'm repeating something you guys
know are have already said, but regarding FIV test coming up positive - the
ELISA test looks for the antibodies to FIV, not the virus itself (which I
thought was odd considering the ELISA test does look for small
Well said Lee
Beth
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From: Lee Evans moonsiste...@yahoo.com
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FW: Transmittal via
I've always seen FIV kittens turn negative after being taken away from mom for
a period. I've never seen a kitten positive on an FeLV test turn negative
later. I have seen litters where 1 might consistently test negative on an Elisa
the others are positive, but the negative has always
i have had 7 kittens in the last 4 years with Felv. the longest one lived
about 18 months, she got horrible stomatitis after 1 year, we had all of her
teeth removed, she did great gained weight and had some good months--she
learned to play (she was a feral kib) then stopped eating, must have
I've been fortunate in this respect. I had an entire litter of FelV
kittens, six of them, and most died about 6 months of age or younger.
One lived to 18 months of age, but one never did test positive. I've had
him retested several times and he's 5 years old now and still negative.
I'm sure this
For the ones who have never seen or heard of this happening, it happens
more than some might think!
I have a cat, now, Awesome Pawsome, who was one of a litter
I socialized from a feral mom.There were 4 kittens--two siamese, a
gray, and a tortie, in this litter. Mom was TNR'd from a feral
Long time ago, before I ever knew about testing or spay/neuter a mom cat and
pop cat came into my yard. Mom was pregnant and pop hung around. They were
actually mated to each other. She had a litter of 6. Out of that litter, only
two survived. The others had what I now know were typical
Don't worry so much about Awesome Pawsome. I adopted out an adult FeLv+ cat
six years ago. Called the adoptive mom this year to see if she would take
another FeLv cat but she said she already had 2, the 6+ year old cat I gave her
and another one who is now about 5 years old. So they do live.
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