Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat

2009-09-30 Thread Lorrie
Last year I adopted a FelV positive kitten to a couple who had two neg. cats. They knew the kitten they wanted was positive, but they fell in love with him and took him anyway. I kept him until their other two cats were vaccinated against Felv and had time to build up immunity. I'm still in

Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat

2009-09-30 Thread Chris
-Original Message- From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Lorrie Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:04 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat Last year I adopted a FelV

Re: [Felvtalk] Adopting neg kitten to family with positive cat

2009-09-30 Thread Gloria B. Lane
I've done that too - a friend of mine adopted 2 kittens quite a few years ago - 1 kitten from our group, and 1 from another. The other kitten at some point tested positive. She keeps the FELV+ kitten on low dose interferon, and the other kitten vacccinated. They must be 6 or 7 years