Hi, ok, situation here.
Background - multiple cat household, over 30 cats, it is a rescue type thing (was the last resort for many of them), all cats vaccinated, fixed, snap tested. Only one snap tested positive for FIV.
Cat number one, we will call him Joe. 20 months old. He was born in my house after catching his mom, born three days later after catching. He along with three siblings, vetted for adoption. Only one adopted, one returned, and I ended up with mom, three kitten. All including mom snap test negative for FELV, mom positive for FIV.
Fast forward 20 months, Joe get sick, pneumonia, dies five days later despite efforts. He was not sick and never been sick up until noticing his labored breathing. It was a very aggressive pneumonia. Blood tests showed positive for felv via elisa test. Ok, that was a shock, and I would not even had an felv test done except it was part of the package anyway.
Problem is, he lived with everyone else, so if he is in fact felv, that means he spread it potentially to others, or, someone else had it and spread to him. Advice given is to vaccinate everyone under two years old for felv, do not bother running tests because the idexx would be expensive, and the snap would be inaccurate. Please say what advice anyone here has to do? I am jsut looking to confirm, or any new ideas.
Second cat, Jake, very feral, I took him in because he needed entropion surgery. He has always been in quarantine and does not interface any other cats. He had the surgery, went great. He is at least five years old, more likely 7 at least. He was fixed, vaccinated and lived in a colony. He tested five years ago positive for felv via snap, and about four years later, another snap test positive. I take him and get a pcr test, and it comes back negative. He gets sick, URI, they run an elisa and comes back positive for felv. So, three positives, one pcr negative. I do not know what to make of this. Anyone have any insight?
The priority though is the situation caused by Joe, I am a little in panic and not know what to do. I guess getting the cats under two years of age vaccinate first, and I guess everyone, would be a start, but it seems impossible to even trust these stupid tests for felv. They have the idex 23655 test, but it is costly to administer to so many cats, and the pcr test was suppose to be pretty accurate as it is.
A really suck situation.
Background - multiple cat household, over 30 cats, it is a rescue type thing (was the last resort for many of them), all cats vaccinated, fixed, snap tested. Only one snap tested positive for FIV.
Cat number one, we will call him Joe. 20 months old. He was born in my house after catching his mom, born three days later after catching. He along with three siblings, vetted for adoption. Only one adopted, one returned, and I ended up with mom, three kitten. All including mom snap test negative for FELV, mom positive for FIV.
Fast forward 20 months, Joe get sick, pneumonia, dies five days later despite efforts. He was not sick and never been sick up until noticing his labored breathing. It was a very aggressive pneumonia. Blood tests showed positive for felv via elisa test. Ok, that was a shock, and I would not even had an felv test done except it was part of the package anyway.
Problem is, he lived with everyone else, so if he is in fact felv, that means he spread it potentially to others, or, someone else had it and spread to him. Advice given is to vaccinate everyone under two years old for felv, do not bother running tests because the idexx would be expensive, and the snap would be inaccurate. Please say what advice anyone here has to do? I am jsut looking to confirm, or any new ideas.
Second cat, Jake, very feral, I took him in because he needed entropion surgery. He has always been in quarantine and does not interface any other cats. He had the surgery, went great. He is at least five years old, more likely 7 at least. He was fixed, vaccinated and lived in a colony. He tested five years ago positive for felv via snap, and about four years later, another snap test positive. I take him and get a pcr test, and it comes back negative. He gets sick, URI, they run an elisa and comes back positive for felv. So, three positives, one pcr negative. I do not know what to make of this. Anyone have any insight?
The priority though is the situation caused by Joe, I am a little in panic and not know what to do. I guess getting the cats under two years of age vaccinate first, and I guess everyone, would be a start, but it seems impossible to even trust these stupid tests for felv. They have the idex 23655 test, but it is costly to administer to so many cats, and the pcr test was suppose to be pretty accurate as it is.
A really suck situation.
