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Does anyone here have (or had) an FIV+ cat? Tell me your experiences with that. When did you find out? How old is the cat, or how long did it live? How did the disease progress? Did/does this cat live among FIV- cats?
I have just one cat, she is not FIV+, however I am utterly obsessed with a cat from our local shelter who is FIV+, very friendly and pretty but overlooked because of this. It's a no-kill shelter and he's been there for 2 years, up there with the shelter's oldest feline residents.
I want to convince someone I know to adopt him, but most people I know who would want to adopt a cat already have cats and don't want to put them at risk of FIV, understandably. It's the reason I won't adopt him myself, although I constantly think about it and wonder whether or not it's really even a risk if they don't get into a fight.
I have just one cat, she is not FIV+, however I am utterly obsessed with a cat from our local shelter who is FIV+, very friendly and pretty but overlooked because of this. It's a no-kill shelter and he's been there for 2 years, up there with the shelter's oldest feline residents.
I want to convince someone I know to adopt him, but most people I know who would want to adopt a cat already have cats and don't want to put them at risk of FIV, understandably. It's the reason I won't adopt him myself, although I constantly think about it and wonder whether or not it's really even a risk if they don't get into a fight.