[Felvtalk] Cleaning? Retesting?

[Amani Oakley]

I had my Zander for seven years, mixed with a dozen other cats. I never took any precautions at all. It was too late by the time we figured out he had FeLV. No other cat ever got the infection.

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Lorraine Johnston
Sent: February-22-19 2:04 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Cleaning? Retesting?

Thank you. I guess I should have phrased my question to indicate that I was concerned about spreading FeLV to my non-FeLV cats. If I understand correctly, your cats are, or were, all FeLV-positive, so there would not have been any non-FeLV cats to spread it to?

I told my cousin back in December that I would also keep Baby in April when he goes way again. So now I’m trying to determine if that’s safe to do, and what additional precautions (if any) I should take while she’s here to avoid spread, now that we know she’s FeLV-positive.

Thank you,

- Lorraine

"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine."  - Alan Turing

From: FeLVtalk [mailto:FeLVtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of dlgegg at windstream.net
I have only had FELV  cats but never washed my hands after handling them.  I treated all the same and have had no experience of the disease spreading to others.  I have had up to 10 at a time as all who came to my house became part of my "pride".  As they came to me, I took them to the vet for a checkup, spay or neuter and they became mine.

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Hello again,
For those of you who have both FELV+ and - cats, how strenuous are your cleaning efforts? For instance, do you wash hands after just petting? Do you have your negative cats retested every year?
Thank you,
- Lorraine
"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine."  - Alan Turing
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