Anyone have experience with feline leukemia?

Thank you.

It's crazy how empty a house can feel with 3 cats.

In a few months we'll have Ten tested again. If she's negative we might look into adopting another kitten (it's getting tested & vaccinated right off, though). If she's still positive, we might look at rescue groups and see if we can find another FeLV+ cat that is otherwise healthy (a lot of people will give up their positive cats even if they're not sick otherwise and most shelters will euthanize them because they're practically unadoptable).

Emily & Romeo are negative after being exposed to it for 3 months and they're both vaccinated so we're not too worried about them getting it by introducing another positive cat, but if Ten is still positive, we don't want to introduce another negative cat to it.

-Chelle

Sorry about your kitty.

We started looking around to adopt another FeLV+ kitty a few days ago. We found a rescue/sanctuary about 2 hours south of here that said they had a whole bunch of FeLV+ kitties and most of them "weren't showing any signs of illness." We made an appointment and drove down there yesterday. We were completely horrified. All their FeLV+ kitties were in one big room (about 30 cats) and they weren't bothering to quarantine the sick ones so every single cat had respiratory problems from just seezing & runny eyes to nearly comatose and looking like they wouldn't survive much longer. It was really sad. As much as we wanted to rescue some of them, we couldn't risk bringing anything home to Ten, but we have contacted the SPCA so hopefully they'll do an investigation. I really don't think they were intentionally neglecting the cats as much as they just had no clue what they were up against. So we don't really want them completely shut down, we just want someone to go and hopefully help them out & educate them.

Anyway, there was also a FeLV+ kitty at a foster home in KC so we looked at her today and ended up adopting her. Her name is Toonces and she's about 1 1/2 years old. She is perfectly healthy other than the FeLV; in fact when they first got her, she gave birth to 3 kittens and they all tested negative (rare & a good sign). She's really shy & scared right now but once she settles in, I think she'll be great.
Here's her petfinder page:
http://www.petfinder.org/pet.cgi?ac...fa4-app4&display=&preview=1&row=0&tmpl=&stat=
And a pic:


-Chelle