Re: I'm New....kitten tested positive for FELV

[Marylyn]

Goodness..........keep the cats and let them enjoy life as long as they can.  It may be a few minutes or it may be 20 years.  No one knows the time they are to leave this world.  The question came up with Dixie Louise (then an unnamed throw away now Dixie Louise Doodle Katt, Junior Partner) in June of last year.  She had been around my mother's for months and I decided to get her spayed. My vets tested her and, unfortunately, it came back positive.  My vet was broken hearted when he told me.  I was, am still, building a log home on a farm I have, was staying at my mother's who couldn't handle a cat in the house, and on and on and on.  Things have worked out.  13 months after the test she is the most alive, happy cat I have ever seen.  She is about to become a farm house cat and she is very excited.  FELV + is not a death sentence and, even if you want to think of it that way, consider...............we all start dying the day we take our first breath.  Love your little ones, take them to a good holistic vet who can supplement your regular vet and just handle things on a daily basis.  Would you want to be killed because you tested positive for a potentially deadly disease?  I wouldn't.                                                                  If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures                                                  from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who                                                  will deal likewise with their fellow man.                                                                   St. Francis ----- Original Message ----- From: kandbz_ mom To: Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:01 AM Subject: I'm New....kitten tested positive for FELV Hello! I recently adopted a kitten...she is now 15 weeks old. The lady I got her from emailed me and said my kittens brother tested positive.  We went to the vet for a checkup on Monday and she tested positive for Felv.  The vet came out right away and said I may want to think about having her euthanized. I asked if we could wait and then do the other test, the one done at the lab.  He said we can, but since she came up positive so young, she probably does have Felv.  I am just heartbroken.  SHe has no symptoms and is just the sweetest cat ever.  I have to get my other two cats tested for it.  My cats are 7 and 3 yrs old.  They have never been tested for Felv because they don't automatically test here.  When you take a cat or kitten in for a "checkup" they just routinely give out the vaccine and don't test unless you ask for it.  You would think that as fast as this disease spreads, they would be testing EVERY kitten/cat.  I'm worried that my other two cats are going to have it now, too.  Does anyone know, would I have to have all three of them euthanized if that were the case??  I'm still learning about this disease from reading things on the internet.  Would it be possible to keep her?? Any advice would be helpful and appreciated.   Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release Date: 7/18/2006