Angi definately has the feline leukemia. Her kittens tested "light positive" The vet said that could be because they have the antibodies in their system from nursing but a small chance they are not infected.
They all got vacinated and he wants them tested again in 6 weeks. My husband the scientist says though that if they get the vaccine they will test positive anyway. So when I take Penelope in for her shots and to be tested, I will ask the vet about it.
The father was a stray, that was so small, we thought he was a kitten I named him Dusty Star because he had a white splochy spot on his chest, the rest of him was all black) and I first saw him at night. We brought him in and he mated with Angi. It happened after we had him for a week and I was upstairs with them trying to introduce them, holding him so they could see each other, when the doorbell rang. I quick put him back in the room where we had been keeping him apart from the others but the door didn't shut properly and I had no idea he had gotten out. I got a phone call right after what turned out to be a delivery, and didn't get upstairs for another 20 minutes or so. I heard Angi make a loud strange meow and thought I better get off the phone to go see what happened. By the time I got upstairs she was hiding under the bed and he was peekiing at her from the bedside. Penelope was on the bed growling at him. We took him to the vet 2 days later to be neutered and for shots and that's when we found out he was sick. He had been sneezing a lot and had lost his voice. At that time we thought we couldn't take him back home and risk Angi and Penelope getting sick. So sadly, we had him put to sleep. This was heart wrenching and I cried for days. He was so sweet. We didn't realize they had actually mated and Angi was pregnant until it was too late to do anything about it without risking her life. I think Dusty was part Siamese because he was very vocal and talked to me constantly. He was, once he realized he could trust me, very affectionate. I miss him. If I had only known what had happened I would have kept him. But when you hear something like that you panick, at least we did. We threw away any toys and litter boxes and dishes we thought he might have come in contact with and throughly cleaned the upstairs. I asked my husband what he thought we should do about the kittens since we both felt it would not be right to give them to anyone if they were sick and he said we will just deal with it one day at a time. So that is the story and that is what we are doing. Sorry this is so long but I thought some would wonder how we came into this situation.
LoopyMom
They all got vacinated and he wants them tested again in 6 weeks. My husband the scientist says though that if they get the vaccine they will test positive anyway. So when I take Penelope in for her shots and to be tested, I will ask the vet about it.
The father was a stray, that was so small, we thought he was a kitten I named him Dusty Star because he had a white splochy spot on his chest, the rest of him was all black) and I first saw him at night. We brought him in and he mated with Angi. It happened after we had him for a week and I was upstairs with them trying to introduce them, holding him so they could see each other, when the doorbell rang. I quick put him back in the room where we had been keeping him apart from the others but the door didn't shut properly and I had no idea he had gotten out. I got a phone call right after what turned out to be a delivery, and didn't get upstairs for another 20 minutes or so. I heard Angi make a loud strange meow and thought I better get off the phone to go see what happened. By the time I got upstairs she was hiding under the bed and he was peekiing at her from the bedside. Penelope was on the bed growling at him. We took him to the vet 2 days later to be neutered and for shots and that's when we found out he was sick. He had been sneezing a lot and had lost his voice. At that time we thought we couldn't take him back home and risk Angi and Penelope getting sick. So sadly, we had him put to sleep. This was heart wrenching and I cried for days. He was so sweet. We didn't realize they had actually mated and Angi was pregnant until it was too late to do anything about it without risking her life. I think Dusty was part Siamese because he was very vocal and talked to me constantly. He was, once he realized he could trust me, very affectionate. I miss him. If I had only known what had happened I would have kept him. But when you hear something like that you panick, at least we did. We threw away any toys and litter boxes and dishes we thought he might have come in contact with and throughly cleaned the upstairs. I asked my husband what he thought we should do about the kittens since we both felt it would not be right to give them to anyone if they were sick and he said we will just deal with it one day at a time. So that is the story and that is what we are doing. Sorry this is so long but I thought some would wonder how we came into this situation.
LoopyMom