I've been reading about FeLV and FIV at this board and I feel so badly about the cats that have been diagnosed positive, and here's my worry.
We put some food in a plastic container on the porch that Pumpkin was eating the night we took her in, but after we placed this food on the back porch, a larger black and white cat was eating from this dish. After Pumpkin ate some leftovers from the same dish, she wandered over to an old food dish on the porch from the other day (it was practically empty). This is when Pumpkin began meowing non-stop, as she was still very hungry. My daughter then opened another can of cat food and dumped it into the first dish, that was just used by the black and white cat. Is Pumpkin at risk of getting any diseases from sharing the dish with this other cat or by eating from the dish that was out the other night?
When we took her to the vet, he tested her for FeLV and FIV, but that was the morning after she ate cat food from those plastic dishes. Should I be worried and have her retested??
We put some food in a plastic container on the porch that Pumpkin was eating the night we took her in, but after we placed this food on the back porch, a larger black and white cat was eating from this dish. After Pumpkin ate some leftovers from the same dish, she wandered over to an old food dish on the porch from the other day (it was practically empty). This is when Pumpkin began meowing non-stop, as she was still very hungry. My daughter then opened another can of cat food and dumped it into the first dish, that was just used by the black and white cat. Is Pumpkin at risk of getting any diseases from sharing the dish with this other cat or by eating from the dish that was out the other night?
When we took her to the vet, he tested her for FeLV and FIV, but that was the morning after she ate cat food from those plastic dishes. Should I be worried and have her retested??