I need some advice!
I rescued a 6 week old stray/feral kitten recently. He has worms and has been sneezing and runny eyes. The vet wormed him but they could not test him for FIV and FelV because he was anemic and they could not get enough blood, so I have to bring him back in a week.
The problem is I'm worried about the worms and whatever else he may have spreading to my own cat (or to my dogs or me in the case of the worms) and I don't know what to do with the kitten to prevent this.
He is in a cage which I just cleaned with a bleach solution today but he needs to get out of the cage for socialization. The problem is I'm worried about him spreading his illness to the surfaces of the room... My cat is kept out of the room he is in for now but since I don't know what he has I don't know how long it would survive on say the carpet or other surfaces and possibly later infect my cat. So I'm not sure if I should just keep him confined to the cage and not allow him out into the room until he has been tested and treated for whatever he has? Or what else I can do to keep my own cat healthy (as well as my dogs...)
I rescued a 6 week old stray/feral kitten recently. He has worms and has been sneezing and runny eyes. The vet wormed him but they could not test him for FIV and FelV because he was anemic and they could not get enough blood, so I have to bring him back in a week.
The problem is I'm worried about the worms and whatever else he may have spreading to my own cat (or to my dogs or me in the case of the worms) and I don't know what to do with the kitten to prevent this.
He is in a cage which I just cleaned with a bleach solution today but he needs to get out of the cage for socialization. The problem is I'm worried about him spreading his illness to the surfaces of the room... My cat is kept out of the room he is in for now but since I don't know what he has I don't know how long it would survive on say the carpet or other surfaces and possibly later infect my cat. So I'm not sure if I should just keep him confined to the cage and not allow him out into the room until he has been tested and treated for whatever he has? Or what else I can do to keep my own cat healthy (as well as my dogs...)