<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Christine</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:46 PM Amani Oakley <<a href="mailto:aoakley@oakleylegal.com">aoakley@oakleylegal.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lorraine Johnston<br>
<b>Sent:</b> February-22-19 2:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" target="_blank">felvtalk@felineleukemia.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Felvtalk] Cleaning? Retesting?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:dlgegg@windstream.net" target="_blank">dlgegg@windstream.net</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hello again,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine." - Alan Turing<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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