[Felvtalk] Cleaning? Retesting?

[Christine Dundas]

My advice would be to keep FeLv and non-FeLv cats separated.  If you choose
not to, you have to understand there is a chance the non-FeLv cats could
get infected.

Having said that, when my husband brought home a kitten that tested
positive for FeLV, I had to make that choice.  We live in a small condo
with two other cats.  We decided to keep her as long as she could be with
us.  I had my two other cats vaccinated for FeLV.  They were adult cats,
healthy in every way.   There was no way I could keep everything and
everyone separated.  Our little Ruthie passed away after almost two years.
My two adult cats tested negative afterwards, a few times.  And are still
healthy and happy.  That was about four years ago.

Christine

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:46 PM Amani Oakley <aoakley at oakleylegal.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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> Amani
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> *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?
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> 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?
>
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>
> 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.
>
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> Thank you,
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>
> - Lorraine
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> "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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> *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.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> 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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