Aces is Negative!!! He is at home with me!

[Scooter's Mom]

Awww, Aces is such a good boy!
Give him lots of hugs from me, please.

[AbbyMom]

What a relief! What a sweetheart!

[Catlady711]

I'm glad to hear Aces tested ok the second time!

Those snap tests have to be 'snapped' as soon as a color indicator shows in a little window. If it isn't done then it does mess up the test. I'm only a vet assistant and I know that, the directions specify that, and it's so easy anyone could do it after one demonstration, I can find very little excuse for a vet tech to not do that. If they were busy someone would just have to wait a few seconds until after she 'snapped' the test and she could help them then because the test runs for 10 minutes by itself after the 'snap' part.

Don't worry about getting the tech into trouble, it's her job to know how to run those tests and to make SURE they are run correctly just for reasons like you ran into today.

Assuming they used the same one we do, this is what they look like.

Idexx snap FELV/FIV combo tests

You add two drops of blood with the pipette thing into the vial, then add two drops of the solution, turn invert the vial 3 times gently to mix it up, pour it into a little 'well' in the test, wait less than a minute for the color change window to turn, snap the kit down to release a chemical inside the test, wait 10 minutes, read the results against the chart that came with the kit. It's not difficult.

[Lizzie]

Katie - I am so glad that Aces has tested negative and is now in a safe and comfortable place. He must feel so good, out of the dangers of being a wobbly cat in the wild. He's now taken a major step towards a much brighter future. I'm sure he will make someone a very wonderful companion. I can imagine how you felt when the test came back positive the first time. That happened to me with my second set of fosters, although in my case they truly were FeLV+. There is a sense of horrified disbelief, a scrambling in your mind on how you can save those cats and protect you own, it's an awful thing to go through. Did you get a nice donation to help with all those costs or did you somehow come up with the funds? You are going through all this for, what, 8 fosters now?

[smokey the elder]

Aces, what a good boy you were at the vet!