Re: [Felvtalk] Feline Leukemia How Contagious?

[Margo]

Hi Roxanne,                     Were they all together before? How old are they?   -----Original Message----- From: Roxanne Smith Sent: Jul 10, 2015 10:46 PM To: "felineres...@frontier.com" , "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" , "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Feline Leukemia How Contagious? I hope this is the way I am to send I have three that are feline leuk pos and the rest are not, they have been vaccinated about four months ago, and I want t re integrate with the other members, everyone is stressed being separated.  I had one die in Feb of 2015--did not know he had it. But I am a little afraid to put everyone together   From: Lorrie <felineres...@frontier.com> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Feline Leukemia How Contagious? I have wondered exactly the same thing. I've had two FelV+ cats with my other 8 neg. cats for over 5 years. They neg. cats were vaccinated only once, and none have ever gotten sick.  Of the 2 FelV + cats, one lived to the age of 7 and suddenly died with no prior illness. The other 7 year old cat (her sister) is still fine.  One of my vets told me it was very difficult for a grown cat to get FelV, but a kitten born with it from a positive mother almost always dies. I had a litter of 4 pos. kittens and all of them died during the first year of their lives. It was terribly heart breaking. Lorrie On 07-01, dlg...@windstream.net wrote: > I am beginning to wonder if FELV is as contagious and the vets > claim.  My cats are all ferals, dump cats and I have had 2 who were > declared FELV positive.  One did pass in 2 years of something else. > Annie has been with me over 4 years now and at first, I vacinnated > all the others .  2 years ago, I stopped that and everyone is > healthy, bright eyed and happy.  I am convinced that Annie really > is not positive, just a tremendeous amount of stress that happened > just before I got her.  She has never shown any signs or symptoms > of any disease.  The rest of the cats are healthy. _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org

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