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 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
