Originally posted by moosmom
Smokey,

From what I've been told, the wet version is the one that's the worst.

I'm sorry to hear about Maddie and Pixel.
I've heard the opposite about the wet form. It comes on faster, and is easier to detect by symptoms, but the end result is the cat will die. Dry form is a slower more hard to detect form, and a slower death for the cat. Paralysis, eye problems, fevers... all sorts of horrid things can happen w/dry form. I think the article is good in that it says what I've been saying for a long time now...the test is useless and only detects a corona virus, which there are 1000s of, and cannot differentiate FIP from common kitty colds. I've lost a rescued kitten to FIP as well, but none of my house cats got it despite sleeping and playing with the kitten. He was one of a litter of 8, one died within a day of me getting them in, and the rest all thrived but for one. The obvious sign was when he bloated like a water balloon, stopped eating, and came close to dying before I got him to the vets where he was PTS. It came on within two days, but none of the other kittens were affected. In contrast, my friend Barbara took in a dumped kitten who came down with dry form. She seemed to be always a bit "off" all the time, and over many months she's go from no appetite, and very lethargic (from fever) to being back to normal a day or so later. Eventually her hind legs started stiffening up, and she'd fall a lot. Then she started to go blind, and by then we all knew she had dry form FIP, and she went to the RB. It's an insideous virus that I hope doesn't mutate to a worse one.