Virologists, experts in the study of viruses, recommend that cats who are tested for Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) have two consecutive tests that agree with each other. Furthermore, those two tests should be approximately two months apart. Please heed your pet’s doctor’s advice when he recommends repeat testing for FeLV [...]
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate, that is the question for today. More and more cat owners elect to keep their cats indoors, which MyPetsDoctor.com heartily advocates. In fact, we practice what we preach, and our Martha is never allowed to be outdoors. The key word here is “allowed.” Which doesn’t mean that she won’t [...]
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) is in the same family, Retroviridae, as Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV). Therefore, they share certain characteristics, such as the ability to suppress a cat’s immune system and to initiate and allow the growth and spread of cancer. The virus was discovered in 1986. FIV is known as the virus of unfriendly [...]
I never get tired of standing on this particular soapbox. Cats need to be indoors. Even thirty years ago, when there really was what we used to call “country” and the nearest paved road was twenty miles away, male cats roamed ten or more miles to impregnate female cats and to fight with other males, [...]
Today’s post is a cautionary tale of two cat diseases. Feline Leukemia Virus is known as “the disease of friendly cats” because it is transmitted from one cat to another through licking each other, sharing food and water bowls and litterboxes. Saliva, urine and stool all carry large amounts of virus and it easily passes from [...]
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