I have wondered exactly the same thing. I've had two FelV+ cats with my other 8 neg. cats for over 5 years. They neg. cats were vaccinated only once, and none have ever gotten sick. Of the 2 FelV + cats, one lived to the age of 7 and suddenly died with no prior illness. The other 7 year old cat (her sister) is still fine. One of my vets told me it was very difficult for a grown cat to get FelV, but a kitten born with it from a positive mother almost always dies.
I had a litter of 4 pos. kittens and all of them died during the first year of their lives. It was terribly heart breaking. Lorrie On 07-01, dlg...@windstream.net wrote: > I am beginning to wonder if FELV is as contagious and the vets > claim. My cats are all ferals, dump cats and I have had 2 who were > declared FELV positive. One did pass in 2 years of something else. > Annie has been with me over 4 years now and at first, I vacinnated > all the others . 2 years ago, I stopped that and everyone is > healthy, bright eyed and happy. I am convinced that Annie really > is not positive, just a tremendeous amount of stress that happened > just before I got her. She has never shown any signs or symptoms > of any disease. The rest of the cats are healthy. _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org