[Felvtalk] 2 Positive FELV togehter with 1 Negative NEED HELPFROM GREECE PLEASE

[Gloria B. Lane]

I'd just not worry about it.  Your tom cat is 9 years old, which is  
not old.  He probably has a good enough immune system that it's not  
bothered by the virus.  If you regularly vaccinate him, then go ahead  
- go for it.

There are some stats about exposure and how likely it is for a cat to  
become infected.  But what I've read and believe is that most healthy  
adult cats have a good enough immune system to fight off the virus,  
and if you vaccinate them, then it'll just help.

I used to mix my positives and negatives - don't know because I have  
rescue cats.  But never caused any problem. I have friends who mix  
their (neiutered) negatives with the positives, no problem.

Gloria


On Mar 31, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Debbie Harrison wrote:

>
> Marcel, there are many wise people here....  I am sure they will  
> give you the answers you need.  Good luck with your cats!
>
> Debbie
>
> "The time is always right to do what is right" -  Martin Luther King
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>> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:22:16 +0000
>> From: marcelwallat at yahoo.gr
>> To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
>> Subject: [Felvtalk] 2 Positive FELV togehter with 1 Negative NEED  
>> HELP FROM GREECE PLEASE
>>
>> Hello and Greetings from Greece,
>> We need help from the experts, pls.
>>
>> Before 2 weeks we've found out that 2 of our cats are FELV +
>> It was an ELISA bloodtest (this are the only ones here in Greece)
>> Now we wrote and talked with so many people but this made us more  
>> confused, because we have one tomcat here (so 3 cats in the home)  
>> which is 9 years old and he was tested Negative.
>> Everyone tells us something different , one time they say that we  
>> shouldnt give our negative tomcat a vaccency-injection for the FELV  
>> because it can be dangerous in his age and that he will not get  
>> FELV now and another one tells that we should go asap to give him  
>> the injection.
>>
>> To explain it:
>> We took a stray cat before one year in our house, he was sleeping  
>> sometimes inside and had contact with our both cats. One our little  
>> cat girl got FELV but the older tomcat not.
>> We want to help them but dont know what is now the best to protect  
>> at first the old tomcat and what we can do with the both infected  
>> cats ? Because here you cant get INTERFERON etc. also you get here  
>> only the standard cat food like whiskas, Felix, Gourmet.
>>
>> Please can help some expert here, what we should do now with our  
>> lovely old tomcat that he gets not infected and what we can do that  
>> we help the both infected cats?/
>> Thank you very much
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>>
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