Denyce
11-14-2006, 08:14 AM
Hi everyone,
I know...I haven't been around in ages. Life has been very hectic and I just haven't had time to get online much. But I have a question to ask all you cat experts.
Someone my husband works with has a 5 year old leukemia positive cat. I don't know for certain if the cat was tested only once and came up positive or if it was confirmed with a second test or not. But they were told the cat is positive. It is healthy and not having any issues at this time.
They now have a little orange female stray coming to their house and would like to bring the cat into their household. I of course told them they first have to get the stray into the vets and determine if this orange female has any health issues before they can really make any decisions. But from what she has said both her and her husband are becoming attached to this orangie and would really like to take her in no matter what her health issues.
From what I have read it isn't recommended if this stray is negative to try and integrate it in with the positive male resident cat. So I was wondering what everyone here felt about the situation and if anyone else has had this situation come up.
So far for myself all my cats have tested negative except for 2 strays that tested positive but they were both extremely ill at the time and needed to be humanely euthanized because they were suffering so I haven't had to deal with this issue myself.
Any opinions are greatly appreciated. At the moment the stray has been brought in and isolated until further information has been obtained as to it's health.
Denyce
I know...I haven't been around in ages. Life has been very hectic and I just haven't had time to get online much. But I have a question to ask all you cat experts.
Someone my husband works with has a 5 year old leukemia positive cat. I don't know for certain if the cat was tested only once and came up positive or if it was confirmed with a second test or not. But they were told the cat is positive. It is healthy and not having any issues at this time.
They now have a little orange female stray coming to their house and would like to bring the cat into their household. I of course told them they first have to get the stray into the vets and determine if this orange female has any health issues before they can really make any decisions. But from what she has said both her and her husband are becoming attached to this orangie and would really like to take her in no matter what her health issues.
From what I have read it isn't recommended if this stray is negative to try and integrate it in with the positive male resident cat. So I was wondering what everyone here felt about the situation and if anyone else has had this situation come up.
So far for myself all my cats have tested negative except for 2 strays that tested positive but they were both extremely ill at the time and needed to be humanely euthanized because they were suffering so I haven't had to deal with this issue myself.
Any opinions are greatly appreciated. At the moment the stray has been brought in and isolated until further information has been obtained as to it's health.
Denyce