Attitude(who never fought anything to do with needles for the most part, to her it was part of being a cat) and Nuts were never sedated for blood work. They never sedated Maude either and doing a simple routine exam on her required full body armor.
Did you ask about doing titers on the negative ones(especially Lucas) to see if they are immune to FeLV which would eliminate the needs for seclusion? or vaccinating some(since I'm sure you don't want to/can't vac Lucas, not sure about the others) of the negative ones against FeLV?
Just remember not all FeLV+ cats follow the same course. Attitude, as I'm sure you read, was always sick. Nuts has never been sick a day in his life. The others outside(all 5 of them) are all healthy appearing as well. The worst we've had was Mama with her rectal prolapse last year(vet put everything back where it belonged and she's been fine since) and Blue had an abscess on his neck. Neither were related to the FeLV. I still have no clue how he would end up with an abscess, he's neutered(Runt isn't, he missed his appointment by refusing to get caught and he doesn't fight with Blue, everyone else is fixed) but he obviously got into a tussel with someone. Everyone but Attitude is healthy with no FeLV related(or non-FeLV related, other than the 2 listed above) issues. Just remember Baddy doesn't know he's sick.
It's great news that so far everyone else is negative. I hope this streak continues and everyone else you get tested is also negative.
Taryn
Did you ask about doing titers on the negative ones(especially Lucas) to see if they are immune to FeLV which would eliminate the needs for seclusion? or vaccinating some(since I'm sure you don't want to/can't vac Lucas, not sure about the others) of the negative ones against FeLV?
Just remember not all FeLV+ cats follow the same course. Attitude, as I'm sure you read, was always sick. Nuts has never been sick a day in his life. The others outside(all 5 of them) are all healthy appearing as well. The worst we've had was Mama with her rectal prolapse last year(vet put everything back where it belonged and she's been fine since) and Blue had an abscess on his neck. Neither were related to the FeLV. I still have no clue how he would end up with an abscess, he's neutered(Runt isn't, he missed his appointment by refusing to get caught and he doesn't fight with Blue, everyone else is fixed) but he obviously got into a tussel with someone. Everyone but Attitude is healthy with no FeLV related(or non-FeLV related, other than the 2 listed above) issues. Just remember Baddy doesn't know he's sick.
It's great news that so far everyone else is negative. I hope this streak continues and everyone else you get tested is also negative.
Taryn