Dear Lance,
I also don't think you have to worry, but you may want to get your
kitty re-tested after awhile. As far as I know, the virus can be spread
by saliva (mutual grooming, using the same food dishes, bites) or
through using the same litter boxes. But the virus only lives a short
time in the open air.
Three of my six cats become infected with the virus when I brought
home a kitten who initially tested negative on the ELISA (I'm told this
is rare, more often a young kitten will test positive then negative if
the mother was positive).
I had all the cats tested: three tested positive, one threw off the
virus and two did not; they became ill and died within two years. Three
others tested negative and are fine.
None of my cats had been vaccinated against FELV - they are indoor
cats and I had not mixed my new kitten with them until he was tested.
And then we had that rare inaccurate test result.
I know some list members do mix their cats - I assume the negative
kitties are all vaccinated. So - I just thought I would add my
experience to the mix.
Bonnie in WI
http://grants.library.wisc.edu/organizations/animals.html
http://savingspaldingpets.blogspot.com/
http://www.bestfriends.org/nomorehomelesspets/pdf/walkforanimals.pdf
- Original Message -
From: wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:46 am
Subject: To Lance Re: Close Encounter between a pos. and a neg.
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Lance,
I just read this and I'm sure it's too late for my
opinion, but I don't think you had anything to worry
about at all. The virus is just not that easy to
spread from what we can tell. How did your Callie
fare after surgery?
:)
Wendy
--- Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone
I hope this is just me being paranoid. It's easy to
be paranoid when
dealing with FeLV+, at least for me. As some of you
may recall, my
Ember is FeLV+, and my mom picked up a negative
kitten (Callie) a
number of months ago. Ember still lives in my room,
so she is
isolated from the negs of the house. Yesterday, I
opened my door to
bring in food, and Ember started out. I was able to
stop her for a
bit, but I was holding her in by pressing her with
my leg against the
door frame, which is something I really didn't want
to do. She got
out and escaped part of the way down the hall before
being chased by
Callie the kitten. Callie wants to play with
everyone, and she tried
to jump on Ember. When Ember ended up cornered at
the end of the
hall, she let out a nice hiss. Fortunately, she was
facing away from
Callie when she did this. I rounded up Ember and got
her back into my
room. Callie, I'm sure, was disappointed.
Most of you probably think this doesn't sound like a
big deal, and it
might not be. Callie has had all of her FeLV+ vax
including boosters.
She should be good for one year. My concern is that
Callie is going
in tomorrow to be spayed, and that if she even got
the tiniest bit of
virus into her system, the immune suppression that
will result from
the surgery might give it some advantage that we
don't want it to have.
Do you think there is any cause for concern, based
on your own
anecdotal experiences? Should we not have the
surgery tomorrow? My
mom is in a hurry to get her spayed, as Callie's
come into a sort of
pseudo heat two times, and she's just turned five
months old. Your
thoughts?
Lance
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