<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435711096508_21724" dir="ltr">I hope this is the way I am to send I have three that are feline leuk pos and the rest are not, they have been vaccinated about four months ago, and I want t re integrate with the other members, everyone is stressed being separated. I had one die in Feb of 2015--did not know he had it. But I am a little afraid to put everyone together<br> </div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Lorrie <felinerescue@frontier.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> felvtalk@felineleukemia.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:21 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Felvtalk] Feline Leukemia How Contagious?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I have wondered exactly the same thing. I've had two FelV+ cats with<br>my other 8 neg. cats for over 5 years. They neg. cats were vaccinated<br>only once, and none have ever gotten sick. Of the 2 FelV + cats,<br>one lived to the age of 7 and suddenly died with no prior illness.<br>The other 7 year old cat (her sister) is still fine. One of my vets<br>told me it was very difficult for a grown cat to get FelV, but a<br>kitten born with it from a positive mother almost always dies. <br><br>I had a litter of 4 pos. kittens and all of them died during the<br>first year of their lives. It was terribly heart breaking. <br><br>Lorrie <br><br><br><br>On 07-01, <a class="removed-link" href="" ymailto="mailto:dlgegg@windstream.net">dlgegg@windstream.net</a> wrote:<br><br><br>> I am beginning to wonder if FELV is as contagious and the vets<br>> claim. My cats are all ferals, dump cats and I have had 2 who were<br>> declared FELV positive. One did pass in 2 years of something else. <br>> Annie has been with me over 4 years now and at first, I vacinnated<br>> all the others . 2 years ago, I stopped that and everyone is<br>> healthy, bright eyed and happy. I am convinced that Annie really<br>> is not positive, just a tremendeous amount of stress that happened<br>> just before I got her. She has never shown any signs or symptoms<br>> of any disease. The rest of the cats are healthy.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Felvtalk mailing list<br><a class="removed-link" href="" ymailto="mailto:Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org">Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org</a><br><a class="removed-link" href="" target="_blank">http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>