My friend just rescued a young male cat who has tested positive for FeLv. I
usually foster these cats until they either turn or I keep them and allow them
to live their lives in a room of their own. The problem now is that I don't
have a room for fostering FeLv+ cats. My two spare rooms are take
WHY do you have to keep him in a their own room? when I got Annie and a few
years later, Nitnoy , everyone ate, slept in the whole house. No one else has
ever tested + for felv. They fuss, hissing, slapping, but that is the extent
of fighting. That way, no one is isloated and unhappy.
Everything I've read about felv is that it's highly contagious not only from
fighting, but from saliva as well. We kept our cats separated from our felv+
kitten for six weeks as they were getting the vaccinations.
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From: dlg...@windstream.
I think this is a personal choice that owners who have both FeLV- and FeLV+
must make on their own. Vaccinating negative cats does a good job of protecting
them from the virus, but it’s not 100% guaranteed (no vaccine is). I’ve read
it’s more like 85-90%, but I don’t have a reference in front of
I've mixed Felv+ cats with adult vaccinated negative cats for years and have
never had a transmission that I am aware of. I've had other cats retested only
as part of the diagnostic process when they have become ill and have never had
a positive test. I personally don't think Felv is as easily t
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