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Does your shelter keep all the cats in cages? Or do they have run of a room with windows, cat trees and toys? If I knew of a no-kill shelter that would take him and that he wouldn't spend his life in a cage (until he was adopted), I would pay the airfare and send him there. It would be worth...

Thanks for the kind words. My vet says my house is a mini-animal shelter. All my cats have been strays that I have taken in. Most were in my yard. I have a broken window in my garage and I put a plastic bag over it so it works like a pet door. It blocks the wind and cold but the cats come...

The vet did the kit test in the office and then took more blood and sent it off to a lab. He told me about the false positives and said that was why it was necessary to do the second test. I don't know what kind of test was done the second time, but when it came back positive, he said it was...

I have been reading these threads for a little bit now and found them interesting but now I am in need of some assistance, so I thought I'd give it a try. I have 14 cats, who were all strays, and recently took in another but this last one tested positive FIV. My vet says I should put him to...