Thanks you all so much for your input.
It's really helpful to know it can work.
All my cats are adults and indoor/outdoor hence they were vaccinated and
chances
are they've mingled in places where FeLV+ cats had been.. hopefully it means
it's working and/or they are immune.
I will exercise caution just the same as one is also Diabetic.
Thanks you so much and kudos to all of you for also not giving up on a kitty
just because they are infected with this terrible disease.
Paola
From: dlg...@windstream.net dlg...@windstream.net
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 7:41:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Fw: Re: to Paola - Mixing positives negatives
Paola, here is my two cents worth. i have 8 cats, 2 are felv+. my vet said as
long as the negatives are up to date on their shots and the positives are not
stressed out, have good food and given good care, there should not be any
problem. been 2 years + and still no problem. they have hissing/slapping
encounters, but no real biting. everyone is fat, sassy and healthy, especially
the felv+ girls. of course, they were all at least 1yr old when i got them,
not
kittens. i did rescue 2 kittens headed for animal control (take them out along
the highway and shoot them) and i could not let that happen. they were
healthy,
but i kept them seperate from others until they had their kitten shots
completed. since then, they rule the house. my babies all go in and out since
i live in the middle of the woods, not a lot of traffic on my gravel road.
they come in at night because of coyotes, etc. going out gives all a way to
work off the excess energy and be prepared for a full night's rest.
Beth create_me_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Paola -
In the past I have always mixed my positives negatives. I did this on the
advice of my vet, who said I would simply stress the positives by keeping them
separate. I vaccinated my negatives every 6 months, again, on the advice of my
vet. One of my FeLV negatives was an FIV+ in all the years I mixed, none of
my
negatives, including my FIV cat, ever go the FeLV.
Right now I do not mix simply because one of my negative cats has Stomatitis
I recently spent $3,000 saving his life from Hemobartonella, which we believe
he
got from a depressed immune system because of the steroids he is on. So,
understandably, I am paranoid right now about exposing him to anything else.
But when I did mix (and I had 5 positives 5 negatives for a long while), I
didn't separate them in any way. They all shared food, water, litter; they
groomed
each other, etc.
All my negatives have been retested several times over the years have
remained negative.
I even had a foster kitten who had FeLV died from FIP. He lived in my
bedroom
with one of my negative cats for months. My cat never got the FeLV or the FIP.
Beth
Dont Litter, Fix Your Critter! www.Furkids.org
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, paola cresti iend...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: paola cresti
iend...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] IMPORTANT CAT VACCINE WARNING
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 12:17 AM
a question, I saw posts from 2 people having FeLV+ cats in the house with non
affected cats. How do you gys manage that?
I just rescued a stray that turned out to be incredibly sweet and FeLV+ but I
have 6 others that are indoor/outdoor so they are all vaccinated for FeLV
but
since it's not 100% I am keeping rescue kitty in the garage and hoping to
find
someone with a closed household willing to take him as a sole cat or an
additional cat to a household with another FeLV+ cat. Having no luck so far
(found a possible person with 2 infected cats in NY but I'm in Los Angeles)
I'm looking into what I must do if I keep him and for this I also joined this
listserv. Do you have them mingle? I figure food dishes should
definitely be
kept separate. My cats are indoor/outdoor and I caught a feral last year who
was
also FeLV+ so I'm thinking it's been going around and if they were likely to
catch it they might have already done so?
I know it's not an exact science but this cat's desperate about being left
alone
in a room, I sit with him for a while but when I leave he cries for a really
long time.
Sorry for the long post.
thanks
Paola
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