RE: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-25 Thread JENI RECA
Hi, This might be a late mention to the email, but I just thought I would just say something.  Coming from working in a shelter that has put down pos feluks I would seperate them, because it would give the kitten that is negative more of a chance to be adopted out.  A lot of people out there do no

RE: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
nded up regretting for the rest of my life.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nina Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:47 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg It is tough when you are not in the posit

Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread wendy
Stillborn kitties are common in FeLV+ mothers. :) Wendy --- janine paton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you all! > > I would prefer they stay together also and will try > to > talk the woman who trapped the mom into that. Our > vet > thinks we should separate the kittens from the mom > no

Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread Nina
It is tough when you are not in the position of being able to keep them yourself, (and who in rescue, besides Hideyo, can keep doing that?). We have a couple of "foster" Chow/Husky littermates at our house. I was determined to keep them together too. They are so bonded, (together they are ou

RE: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread Susan Hoffman
That feels very right on a psycho-spiritual level.    Many years ago I had two cousins who had been raised as siblings.  When their surrogate mother passed away at almost 18 years of age my vet offered to do a free necropsy to find out why her response to antibiotics had been so poor.  She was b

Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread janine paton
Thank you all! I would prefer they stay together also and will try to talk the woman who trapped the mom into that. Our vet thinks we should separate the kittens from the mom now, but I am wondering if the negative kitten is immune anyway. How much more "prolonged contact" can you get than birt

RE: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nina Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:56 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg Janine, I agree with Belinda and Rachel. I would keep them together, for both their sakes. Poor little lambs have been through so

Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread Nina
Janine, I agree with Belinda and Rachel. I would keep them together, for both their sakes. Poor little lambs have been through so much already. Have you been reading the posts lately? We just had a kitten on the list apparently turn out to be a false pos. I know it's less likely in your c

Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread clawsnpaws
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread, but have a recent experience I thought I'd share regarding pos/neg littermates.    We've been knee deep in a hoarder situation involving a high percentage of their cats being FeLV+.  One of the females who had a litter of 5 tested negative on both ELISA

Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread Belinda
Separating may be good as far as getting the negative adopted but it may stress the positive enough to set the virus off. I personally would try adopting them out together as hard as that is going to be (or keep them). -- Belinda happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties http://b

Re: 2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-14 Thread wendy
Janine, I don't know. That's a judgement call to make for sure and depends on your ultimate goal. If the goal is adoption, I think at such a young age, they are probably not so attached just yet and separating them might give the negative a better chance at being adopted. Just my two cents. :)

2 littermates - one pos/one neg

2006-06-13 Thread janine paton
Hi all, Two brothers, 7 weeks today tested one positive, one negative for leukemia. The mom is feral, and has not been tested yet, but her sister tested positive. The mom had been trapped by someone trying to do the right thing, but the kittens were born beforre she could get her to the vet. A