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at what age are the FelV and FIV tests accurate?
Doing a web search I come up with everything from they can be tested at any
time to it's not accurate till 6 mos. At what age do you usually test kittens? There are about 5 doctors at the veterinary practice I take my cats to. The vet I usually deal with told me (last fall) he couldn't test kittens until they were at least 12 wks. old. When I took the most recent litter up to be checked (when they had diarrhea and weren't eating) I saw a different (younger) vet who told me she could test them then (they were 2-3 wks old). She did and the results were negative. She warned that there could be a false positive at that age but if it was negative then they were negative. The rescue group we're fostering for told me I shouldn't trust the results because they were so young. So now I'm confused. The kittens are now 7 weeks old and are itchy to get out of the cat play pen I'm keeping them in. I don't want them interacting with my resident cats unless I'm pretty sure they aren't positive. So do I need to get them re-tested? Are they old enough yet? Thanks W |
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