I've never had this happen to me yet and hopefully I never will. When I adopted Storm from the Humane Society he did come down with an URI and he also had fleas, ear mites,coccidia, and probably other internal parasites. He was a mess but luckily the only cat I had at the time so nothing spread. Now my local Humane Society has become much better so these things don't happen as often. Sky was also from the Humane Society and I later found out that he had tapeworm but my vet told me that the fecal test doesn't pick this up so I was the one who noticed he had tapeworm. I'm just glad that it wasn't contagious. Starr came down with ringworm and also had coccidia which I already knew about and he was from a rescue /shelter group.


A friend of mine adopted two kittens who were brother and sister and they had been strays. Unfortunately the male kitten developed FIP when he was only about 3-4 months old and his sister developed it when she was a little over a year old. She had adopted them from a rescue group and I had even recommended the foster mom to her. I still feel terrible about this. I know there's no good accurate FIP test yet but hopefully there will be one in the future.