At one of my homeless cat route stops last night I had a couple come up to me, he had wanted to talk to me and told me he works in the building in front of my feeding spot. They had trapped and fixed the 2 cats I had yet to TNR (the rest of this colony are done) and that the one small female he trapped had recently had kittens, which I knew about and was trying to find them.
Well he found 1 that was dead, and last night found the second kitten, who he took to the nightime emergency vet clinic, which I use often.
He emailed me this am and told me the kitten (who is approx 5-6 weeks old) had tested positive for FELV, yet when he had the mom spayed last week, she tested negative, as well as all that I have fixed at this spot.
The vet told him the chances of this being a false pos. were very low, and he should euthanize this baby. So he did.
This couple as well as myself are all heartbroken today, and I am struggling with how/why this vet would tell him it was unlikely for the test to be false.
How can this be??!
Well he found 1 that was dead, and last night found the second kitten, who he took to the nightime emergency vet clinic, which I use often.
He emailed me this am and told me the kitten (who is approx 5-6 weeks old) had tested positive for FELV, yet when he had the mom spayed last week, she tested negative, as well as all that I have fixed at this spot.
The vet told him the chances of this being a false pos. were very low, and he should euthanize this baby. So he did.
This couple as well as myself are all heartbroken today, and I am struggling with how/why this vet would tell him it was unlikely for the test to be false.
How can this be??!