Hello Everybody
I took one of my cats for a general check up at a proper vet (I live on a greek island and vet here is quite rural, had to travel 3 hr on ferry to capital) anyway.
I took her there to have a proper check up because she is a very scared cat in general, so did not wanted to do anything that could not be done perfectly.
I rescued her as a kitten, she's around 2 yrs old. When she was a baby she had heavy flu, on and off... and all along now for two years.
She is very difficult to medicate and in general to handle her, but always managed to give her a good course of antibiotics. After some time the flu would be back.
As last week she sneezed a bit of blood I got really worried we travelled to the proper vet.
We did a full bloodwork and chest x-rays as she never had any
The situation could not be worse.
She tested positive for FIV & FeLV. All her other bloodwork is very good, she has a good weight, good eyes and very good condition the vet said. Now the x-ray showed a little flaw in her right lung. He recomended a 30 day antibiotic run this time. Will be a tough one.
But that is not so much what bothers me as the others.
So he said she's not ill, she's a carrier. I had a FIV cat which I lost after a long liver battle. It was very sad for me, he was 5.
I know she might live longer than that as long as the illness will not show. But in the meantime I have inserted since last May a second kitten in the house to keep her company. He is now 8-9 months old. And never tested. Of course I feel so so sad as I am affraid that he might be infected as well and I have to live with the agony till monday when the local vet returns to do an elisa test for him.
I wanted to know by experience, what is the percentage of FeLV cats that are carriers and do not transmit the disease ? What is the percentage of cats that the FeLV retracts and dissapears ?
I am very confused and sad. I know a lot of you might think that I am a very irresponsible owner, but I am not. I do a lot of work for the animal welfare and have helped so many kittens and cats because they are literally helpless. And if I hadn't taken her, she would have died a long ago, no one wanted to adopted her and that's why I ended up keeping her after 1 year of temporary foster, and the new kitten would have been crushed by a car as he was crossing a busy street back and forth when found. In one hand I'm giving them a life that they could never have on the streets of this island where a lot of people are just cruel and indiferent to animals. But in the other hand I was not careful enough or smart enough to test her before introducing a second kitten to her.
And now he can be infected as well. I guess there is nothing I can do to fix this. But devastates me, and I really would like to know if there is a website that has guidelines like the CRF link... don't know any source with lots of information and experiences, even a sticky thread here, which for some reason I cannot find.
Thank you a lot for your help and understanding
Ronit
Naxos, Greece.
I took one of my cats for a general check up at a proper vet (I live on a greek island and vet here is quite rural, had to travel 3 hr on ferry to capital) anyway.
I took her there to have a proper check up because she is a very scared cat in general, so did not wanted to do anything that could not be done perfectly.
I rescued her as a kitten, she's around 2 yrs old. When she was a baby she had heavy flu, on and off... and all along now for two years.
She is very difficult to medicate and in general to handle her, but always managed to give her a good course of antibiotics. After some time the flu would be back.
As last week she sneezed a bit of blood I got really worried we travelled to the proper vet.
We did a full bloodwork and chest x-rays as she never had any
The situation could not be worse.
She tested positive for FIV & FeLV. All her other bloodwork is very good, she has a good weight, good eyes and very good condition the vet said. Now the x-ray showed a little flaw in her right lung. He recomended a 30 day antibiotic run this time. Will be a tough one.
But that is not so much what bothers me as the others.
So he said she's not ill, she's a carrier. I had a FIV cat which I lost after a long liver battle. It was very sad for me, he was 5.
I know she might live longer than that as long as the illness will not show. But in the meantime I have inserted since last May a second kitten in the house to keep her company. He is now 8-9 months old. And never tested. Of course I feel so so sad as I am affraid that he might be infected as well and I have to live with the agony till monday when the local vet returns to do an elisa test for him.
I wanted to know by experience, what is the percentage of FeLV cats that are carriers and do not transmit the disease ? What is the percentage of cats that the FeLV retracts and dissapears ?
I am very confused and sad. I know a lot of you might think that I am a very irresponsible owner, but I am not. I do a lot of work for the animal welfare and have helped so many kittens and cats because they are literally helpless. And if I hadn't taken her, she would have died a long ago, no one wanted to adopted her and that's why I ended up keeping her after 1 year of temporary foster, and the new kitten would have been crushed by a car as he was crossing a busy street back and forth when found. In one hand I'm giving them a life that they could never have on the streets of this island where a lot of people are just cruel and indiferent to animals. But in the other hand I was not careful enough or smart enough to test her before introducing a second kitten to her.
And now he can be infected as well. I guess there is nothing I can do to fix this. But devastates me, and I really would like to know if there is a website that has guidelines like the CRF link... don't know any source with lots of information and experiences, even a sticky thread here, which for some reason I cannot find.
Thank you a lot for your help and understanding
Ronit
Naxos, Greece.