I am so happy to hear you are considering keeping her, not just because she is attatched to you now but because she is FeLV+. You are in for a road ahead you you, whether it be difficult or not. The good thing is that she has responded to you very positively. I have had a few vets, vet techs, and other customers of mine in general tell me that tortie's seem to be either really really affectionate or can be pretty tempermental. My sister also has a tortie and she is a purring/biter who has no qualms about giving people swats and chewing on their pant cuffs, then coming back for bum pats and chin scratches.
Do you have access to a porch in your home? What i had one customer of mine do was screen off an area on her porch for her 3 FeLV+ cats. The rest of the porch was screened off and her other cats had the run of that part of the day, and the positive cats had the run of it that night. It worked out really well.
I would bet that in one year she will come a long way if you continue to work with her and just plain love her as you are doing right now. Our other cats have. Its amazing what animals will repond to if just given the chance.
Michelle
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