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ciao from Italy!

Alice, can you turn the volume down on your speaker?

It should be an icon speaker on your task bar

Hi to fellow attendees, meowee

Welcome, all! We'll get started at the top of the hour!

FYI this webinar will be recorded and we will be emailing you the link.

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Carol, yes! We are playing music.

Please make sure you have selected "All panelists and attendees" when you use chat!

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Cheryl, I agree!

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Animal Friends, PA, USA

Kauai Humane Society, Hawaii, USA

East Bay SPCA in California, USA

Young-Williams Animal Center TN, USA

Operation Kindness Carrollton (near Dallas), TX

Collin County Animal Shelter, TX, USA

Homeless Animal Rescue Team

Humane Society of Portage County, Wisconsin, USA

Banfield Pet Hospital, Washington, USA

Chesapeake Humane Society, VA, USA

Madison Cat Project, WI, USA

Portugal, privete veterinarian

Yellowstone valley animal shelter

ARPO, Indiana, USA

Neenah Animal Shelter, Neenah, WI

Thomas J. O'Connor Animal Control and Adoption Center, Springfield, MA

Iberia Parish Rabies Control, Louisiana, USA

Humane Society of Charlotte, NC, USA

Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA, VA, USA

Humane Ohio. Toledo, OH, USA

Hi from Medina County SPCA in Seville OH USA

Chattanooga, TN

UW Shelter medicine, WI USA

Lenawee Humane Society, MI, USA

Paula Bunker West Bridgewater MA USA

Starlight Outreach and Rescue, TX, USA

Tabby's Place: A Cat Sanctuary, Ringoes, NJ

Hillsborough county pet resource center, Tampa, FL, USA

Mountain Humane x2! :)

Richmond SPCA, Richmond, VA

Toronto Cat Rescue, Toronto, Canada

Humane Society for Greater Nashua, NH USA

Regional Center for Animal Care and Protection, Virginia

billings mt

scas new york

Allegany Country Animal Shelter, Cumberland, Md, USA

Rh0de Island Kitten Kits RI, USA

Slinger, Wi

Stratford Perth Humane Society, Ontario, Canada

Cambria, California

Toledo Area Humane Society, OH

Capital Area Humane Society Michigan USA

Freedom Hearts Animal Rescue, WV

Hailey, ID

Detroit, MI

jen, Central Hospital for Vet Med, CT

Animal Health Hospital, Idaho usa

ASPCA Community Medicine NYC

Plymouth MA several shelters

Front Street Animal Shelter, CA, USA

Animal Protection Center of Southeastern MA, MA, US

Silver Comet AWA ATL GA

The Anti-Cruelty Society, Chicago, IL

City of Great Falls Animal Shelter , Montana

Animal Protective Foundation Schenectady NY USA

Vet student at UVLF, Kosice, Slovakia. Work at Woodside Animal Welfare Trust, UK.

Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ

pasadena humane California

Kathy Stone Operation Fancy Free WV USA

Colleen from Street Cat Hub, Albuquerque

Pensacola humane society

Ellen Fuhrken Middleburg Humane Foundation, Marshall VA

Humane Network, Nevada, USA

Animal Allies, Florida, USA

Humane Society of Delaware County, OH

Capital Area Humane Society Lansing, MI

Hello from Kitten Central of Placer County in NewCastle California

Paw Placement Scottsdale AZ

Santa Rosa county animal services

Memphis Animal Services - Memphis, TN

Dr. Luckow Broadway Animal Hospital of Riverdale

Kitties For Keeps Rescue, Lansing, Illinois

San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition, San Antonio, TX

Deborah Weibman Fishkill, NY USA StrayHELP

Karn Myers, FixNation, Los Angeles, CA

Hello from Sussex NJ

video is in and out?

Carol Christensen Oregon Humane Society, Portland, OR

Todd Burgess. Toronto Cat Rescue, Toronto, Canada

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why there is no abortive infection with FIV?

Jose and Yvonne, we will get to your questions at the end! Thanks for asking!

UK :)

FeLV Vaccine question… does the first and second for a never-vaxed-before cat have to be same brand…? Just wondering b/c thru our spay/neuter program some owners do get it… and we advise to get a booster and of course the next vet may use a different product.

Folks in other countries: are you finding less cases of FIV since the vaccine is available?

I've captured your questions, Rachel, Lauren, Lisa and Brittayt! We will try to get to as many as we can at the end.

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Are kittens or adult cats more likely to have an abortive FeLV infection?

what is % of cats that become abortive?

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I'm doing TNR so not testing feral, but testing friendly that are going to be adopted (sorry, I missed the slide, not sure which # it fall under)

would you recommend retesting the FIV neg cats that are on a community room with FIV pos.

negative results are still results and i think having a lot of negative tests do not diminish the value of the test. It simply reflects the "real" prevalence of the disease. If we only test suspected/high risk cats, we are artificially increasing prevalence. Can you please commnet on my thoughts? thank you

meaning, not only positive tests are valuable

Are FIV and FeLV transferred through mating?

Jose- you are not wrong. However, what she is suggesting is selecting the population to test in order to maximize the test population prevalence, thereby increasing the specificity and sensitivity of the test itself. Test sensitivity and specificity is directly related to the population prevalence. So, yes, you are artificially increasing the prevalence, but you have to keep in mind that the population you are testing does not represent your shelter population as a whole

why test low risk owned cats? What will be recommended according to the results?

…so then what does the family DVM do with a positive FeLV result…?

Do you believe ASV will alter their position statement on testing ALL cats?

How do you deal with individually housed, low risk cats in a shelter that then may be adopted into a household with other cats?

Our highest number of FeLV positive kittens have been born outdoors to feral cats.

Regarding optional testing, what about adopters who want to know the result before adopting, and may be upset if they later find out a cat is positive?

What about cats that are not returned to the same area and relocated?

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We had moms that tested negative for FIV and another that tested neg for FeLV at time of intake. When we had their kittens tested the kittens of one of the moms tested FIV + upon retesting mom she was positive. The other litter of kittens when tested were all positive for FeLV mom still snapped neg and IFA neg for FeLV but + in the CPR.

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The animal control facility our rescue works with euthanizes all positive cats (FIV and FeLV), but our rescue is working to change that

We do confirmatory testing for FeLV cats and kittens

How do we re-program community veterinarians to this paradigm shift for placement & testing?

I second Lisa's question - the vets we work with have a history of giving "worst case scenario" information to adopters who have adopted a cat who tests positive

I would love more information from other organizations that adopt out FelV + cats and kittens

We had a recent adoption surrendered due to a positive FeLV test. We did a PCR test and the cat was negative

Confirmatory tests can be wrong

I have double posiive cat now on a snap test but is ifa negative

We have actually seen an increase in both FIV and FeLV cats brought in from outside. Friendly strays, abandoned cats, pregnant moms and kittens. Why is this happening?

@brittany — email me at rjohnson@hstc1.org and I can chat with you about our program! It’s small and new but we might be able to help :)

@brittany - email me at pbrayer@hssaz.org. We have 3 programs available for FeLV and FIV positive and exposed kittens and cats

is it possible to save this chat…? for email addresses provided above?

What are the chances of transmitting Felk between cats in kennels when the staff aren't washing hands between cleaning cats and their litterboxes, bowls (the same box and bowls go back into the same kennel)...?

Thanks - that was great!!

The AAFP guidelines do recommend that infected cats not be place back outside or allowed to roam outside. How does this fit in with the recommendations not to test TNR cats?

So what are the highest risk categories….

just symptomatic cats...?

Thank you! Great information.

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Thank you for taking this important time to provide us with updated information on FIV and FELV