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This is a quicker post but I just wanted to share. Special needs cats such as feline leukemia, or FeLV, positive cats often get passed up on and overlooked when it comes to rescues.

There's also a lot of fear around it. I was in the process of setting up a meet and greet for a cat when my current boy came into my life. He was dropped off at my work and this poor baby was so sick. We shared workspace with a vet so they were treating him while I was working. When I finished my shift I was driving home with my boy, fully expecting him to not make it but wanting him to be safe in a warm home for as many hours or days he had in him.

I got a call from the rescue about setting a date to view the cat I was interested in and I told her I was so sorry but I'm not longer looking for a cat because I just rescued a sick boy who needed my help. When I told her he was FeLV+ she lost her mind. She was telling me to not let that cat into my house, that everything I owned was going to be contaminated, that I wouldn't be able to adopt a cat from them in the future.

I was ?? because I had never had any experience with FeLV so I was freaked out by that reaction but told her there was no way I was going to just leave this poor sick baby to waste away.

Yeah so fast forward on that. 2.5 years later my boy is thriving. No, my house is not a biohazard. Yes, feline leukemia is highly contagious between cats. Mostly through saliva, and the virus cannot exist long without a host. So if you go to someone's house and pet their cat and then 5 hours later you come home and pet your cat, you're not going to infect them. She made it seem like by me owning this cat, then after he's gone I'll never be able to let another cat into my home because they'll instantly get the virus.

Which is crazy that there is so much stigma and misunderstanding and fear about the virus. Yes, cats who are FeLV+
+ do have a shorter lifespan.
+ do get sick more frequently and it is harder for them to get over sickness.
+ can easily infect other cats through saliva matters such as grooming, sharing fold and water bowls, bites etc.
+ they can get extremely sick very quickly especially at the end. you really don't know how much time you have with them.

However they can also
+ have insane zoomies and scale cat towers and jump and flip thru the air playing after toys
+ curl up with you and spend the day/n