[Felvtalk] Little Girl Coco

[Kelley S]

I continue to be really worried.  She is so very thin and eats almost
nothing.  She IS eating, just not much at all.  I have gotten some AD and
am going to try to syringe it to her.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Kelley S <moonvine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lorrie,
>
> Yes, I would agree it is very difficult.  Unfortunately very difficult
> does not mean impossible.  That's my problem. I  have no more kittens.  I
> have a young adult cat who was born 1/7/13 who has been combo tested
> negative and vaccinated along with all the other cats.
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Lorrie <felinerescue at frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> Kelley,
>> -
>> My vet told me it is very difficult for FelV cats to give the virus
>> to other adult cats. It is a different story with kittens who are
>> very susceptible, as their immune systems are not fully developed.
>> I've personally found that kittens born with FelV from a positive
>> mother almost always die. However, I have 10 adult cats who have been
>> with two FelV pos. cats for 5 years and none of them have become
>> positive.  FelV is not easily transmitted to adult cats, even when
>> they share food and water bowls.
>>
>> Lorrie
>>
>> n 09-29, Kelley wrote:
>>
>> > By the way, various vets have told me regarding mixing vaccinated
>> > negatives and positives everything from "FELV is so contagious that
>> > if a positive cat licks a blade of grass and your negative cat
>> > comes along and licks the same blade of grass they will be
>> > infected" to "it's no big deal." So at this point I have to wonder
>> > how much good "a vet told me" is.
>> >
>>
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