On March 19, I adopted a 6 month old kitten from the SPCA. Her health records indicate that she was spayed, treated for parasites, 1st set of vaccinations, etc and tested FeLV negative (on March 8). She apparently came in with 12 other cats from a hoarding situation. She has been settling in really well, and really gets along well with my 9 year old male cat to the point they are sleeping together, etc. She hasn't quite shaken an upper respiratory infection (that they sent her home with meds for) yet, but is otherwise doing well.
I got a call today from the SPCA shelter advising that they just got in another batch of cats from the same house she came from and one of the cats has tested "faint positive" for FeLV. They are recommending that I take her back to the shelter to get retested on April 8, because it is 30 days past the initial negative. They gave me the option of taking her in to be tested next week (at no charge), the option of sending her back to the shelter for an adoption fee refund if I was too concerned about even taking the chance at all or taking her to my vet to get the test run.
What should I do at this point? She already has been exposed to my existing cat for 2 weeks (and I didn't hold off on allowing that when they were ready) because she had tested negative. Is there any point in even seperating them at this point, given that (1) it will cause undue stress (2) they have been using the same food/water/litter dishes for nearly 2 weeks now, and my 9 year old probably would have already been exposed by now if she is positive. I don't see the point of returning her to the shelter at this point either for the same reason. Do I just wait for a week, get the followup FeLV test run and hope for the best at this point?
I got a call today from the SPCA shelter advising that they just got in another batch of cats from the same house she came from and one of the cats has tested "faint positive" for FeLV. They are recommending that I take her back to the shelter to get retested on April 8, because it is 30 days past the initial negative. They gave me the option of taking her in to be tested next week (at no charge), the option of sending her back to the shelter for an adoption fee refund if I was too concerned about even taking the chance at all or taking her to my vet to get the test run.
What should I do at this point? She already has been exposed to my existing cat for 2 weeks (and I didn't hold off on allowing that when they were ready) because she had tested negative. Is there any point in even seperating them at this point, given that (1) it will cause undue stress (2) they have been using the same food/water/litter dishes for nearly 2 weeks now, and my 9 year old probably would have already been exposed by now if she is positive. I don't see the point of returning her to the shelter at this point either for the same reason. Do I just wait for a week, get the followup FeLV test run and hope for the best at this point?
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