Just had a FIV+/FeLv+ cat retested. He had FIV but he tested negative for
FeLv. He's going into my FIV+ section, not because I think that FIV would be
contagious to my regular cats but because he never lost his male fighting
spirit so let him annoy the FIV's. I do have three FIV+ cats mixed in with my
regulars because they never even heard of fighting. Docile, sweet, loving.
But Percy, well....! Anyway, you need to wait for at least 2 months to retest
the kittens. My vet advised me to wait for that period of time. I had another
FeLv cat turn from positive to negative. I still have him. Rescued him 6
years ago and he was already an adult from the streets. No health problems.
If your kittens are acting normal, seeming health, it's probably because they
are and will turn. I have seen true FeLv kittens from the same litter. It has
been my experience that they usually don't make it to a year old.
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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From: Sharyl <cline...@yahoo.com>
To: "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Foster Mom with FELV kittens follow up
My experience with 10 FeLV kittens is they will do fine for 1-4 yrs before
showing signs of illness. My rescue kittens were positive initally and stayed
that way. All did fine with s/n - no issues at all. All were active and
loving babies. Thank you for saving these babies
Sharyl
From: Jamielynn Storch <jlsphotograp...@gmail.com>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Foster Mom with FELV kittens follow up
You've got it right. I've immersed myself in FELV for the past 2 weeks and
feel I've got a pretty good grasp and from what I understand what you stated
is correct. Basically I need the snap and IFA test to match..but a positive
snap and negative IFA does NOT mean they are in the clear it may just mean it
has not spread to the point of testing positive on IFA yet. I need either a
matching negative snap and IFA or matching positive snap and IFA. I've really
had to educate myself on this bc I've learned the shelter really does not have
great knowledge on it and they really tend to group FELV and FIV together a
lot. Prior to me doing my own investigating and phone calls I was told a ton
of different things from the shelter.
As for the mother- these guys were left on someones doorstep with no mom and
brought to the shelter. I pulled them as bottlefeeders at about 2 weeks old
(uninformed on needing to request a snap test). I had them for 5 weeks not
knowing about the FELV...dropped them off for their spays and neuters at 2lbs
and got a call that afternoon that 1 in the litter had tested postiive for FELV
(they only test 1). They had only tested them bc I checked off a box
requesting the snap test (otherwise never would have tested them). When I
picked them up I brought them to the clinic and had a 2nd one in the litter
tested who also tested positive. A week later I had an appointment with the
shelters vet who than snap tested the 3rd kitten in the litter who also tested
positive. Now we wait...re-snap..if snap positive we will send out IFA. At
this point Im treating them as FELV+ and certainly don't have my hopes up that
they are
going to be negative.
They are not showing any signs or symptoms that I am aware of at this point.
They were spayed and neutered that day which now Im hearing mixed things on
whether that should have been done or not and that FELV cats can have a
difficult recovery. These guys had no problems recovering and have bounced
back wonderfully besides 1 of them getting really bad diarrhea for a few days
but we discovered roundworms and treated all 3 for that. His diarhea is now
gone and he's back to himself.
--
Jamielynn Storch
http://www.jlynnphotographyonline.com/
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