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FLV+ and FLV- kitties together?
I was just wondering what people thought about having FLV+ and FLV - cats
together. I was told you shouldn't have them together. Even if the negative is vaccinated, they can still get FLV from the other cat over time. I had an FLV+ who became a negative who now lives with a negative. They never interact with each other. They're both healthy. |
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"Mary" wrote in message ... I was just wondering what people thought about having FLV+ and FLV - cats together. I was told you shouldn't have them together. Even if the negative is vaccinated, they can still get FLV from the other cat over time. I had an FLV+ who became a negative who now lives with a negative. They never interact with each other. They're both healthy. I think if certain circumstances were okay it might be a less of a risk than what you've been told, i.e., the cats involved are very mellow and unlikely to fight because I've heard it's transmitted from deep puncture wounds. I am, however, not an expert and could be wrong about this. Probably the people who do a lot of cat rescuing would know. I do know my vet wouldn't have condoned doing it. I think if I couldn't have found a home for Pirate we would've tried to work out something for him to be with us. I've also been told that FIV+ cats are generally very sweet (probably why they got beat up in cat fights). Christine |
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"Mary" wrote in message ... I was just wondering what people thought about having FLV+ and FLV - cats together. I was told you shouldn't have them together. Even if the negative is vaccinated, they can still get FLV from the other cat over time. I had an FLV+ who became a negative who now lives with a negative. They never interact with each other. They're both healthy. I think if certain circumstances were okay it might be a less of a risk than what you've been told, i.e., the cats involved are very mellow and unlikely to fight because I've heard it's transmitted from deep puncture wounds. I am, however, not an expert and could be wrong about this. Probably the people who do a lot of cat rescuing would know. I do know my vet wouldn't have condoned doing it. I think if I couldn't have found a home for Pirate we would've tried to work out something for him to be with us. I've also been told that FIV+ cats are generally very sweet (probably why they got beat up in cat fights). Christine |
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My jack became FLV + from just associating with cats. I know, it happened
while I was fostering. I was told the kittens were negative, but were in fact positive. I had the rest of my brood vaccinated, knowing that the vaccine wasn't 100%. I didn't care, I couldn't part with any of them. I had him retested in 6 weeks and he was still positive. I started supplementing my brood with vitamin C. a year later he is not only flv- but also fip - (long story) I can't recommend highly enough giving vitamin c ! "Mary" wrote in message ... I was just wondering what people thought about having FLV+ and FLV - cats together. I was told you shouldn't have them together. Even if the negative is vaccinated, they can still get FLV from the other cat over time. I had an FLV+ who became a negative who now lives with a negative. They never interact with each other. They're both healthy. |
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My jack became FLV + from just associating with cats. I know, it happened
while I was fostering. I was told the kittens were negative, but were in fact positive. I had the rest of my brood vaccinated, knowing that the vaccine wasn't 100%. I didn't care, I couldn't part with any of them. I had him retested in 6 weeks and he was still positive. I started supplementing my brood with vitamin C. a year later he is not only flv- but also fip - (long story) I can't recommend highly enough giving vitamin c ! "Mary" wrote in message ... I was just wondering what people thought about having FLV+ and FLV - cats together. I was told you shouldn't have them together. Even if the negative is vaccinated, they can still get FLV from the other cat over time. I had an FLV+ who became a negative who now lives with a negative. They never interact with each other. They're both healthy. |
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