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My cat had panleukopenia half a year ago. Now she's fine, vaccinated, but afaik the infection is supposed to be impossible to fully eliminate from the apartment and is retained for 1.5 years afterwards on some of the surfaces.
My cat is so mine-blowingly hyperactive that I want to take in another cat so that she'd have a playmate. And I want to be able to return it if the cats fail to get along. The new cat would be vaccinated.
But it has dawned on me: what if the new cat can carry the infection back home on her coat or paws, in case I have to return it? She still has her mother and littermates back at home, and all of them could potentially die. They aren't vaccinated. E.g. the new cat lies down on some surface, and the infection gets into her coat, then she travels back home with it.
Does anyone know how panleukopenia works and can it be passed to other cats this way? I'm afraid to cause illness or even death to other cats due to my ignorance on this matter.
My cat is so mine-blowingly hyperactive that I want to take in another cat so that she'd have a playmate. And I want to be able to return it if the cats fail to get along. The new cat would be vaccinated.
But it has dawned on me: what if the new cat can carry the infection back home on her coat or paws, in case I have to return it? She still has her mother and littermates back at home, and all of them could potentially die. They aren't vaccinated. E.g. the new cat lies down on some surface, and the infection gets into her coat, then she travels back home with it.
Does anyone know how panleukopenia works and can it be passed to other cats this way? I'm afraid to cause illness or even death to other cats due to my ignorance on this matter.