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QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Definitely the most low tech solution, but I could imagine reasons why it might not be a good solution. Sharing the bed with another human seems like a pretty valid argument against this style.

    As a random tangent, I’m signed up for Google Opinion Rewards, and I got a survey today that was asking me about my search for this. Some of the questions were so awkward to answer because I was like, “I was just trying to help an internet homie on lemny solve their troubles, I don’t know!”



  • While I definitely lean towards not letting cats roam free (not even possible in our current living situation), I’d say that FeLV and FIP scare me way more than FIV. FIV+ cats can live relatively normal, long lives when living in safe, caring homes with some very basic precautions

    FIV is primarily transmitted via saliva in deep bite wounds when one cat bites another, and the majority of those bites occur when an intact male cat bites another intact male cat, so if your cats are spayed/neutered, the risk of contracting FIV drops significantly. With proper slow introductions between altered cats, FIV+ and FIV- cats can live together with minimal risk of transmission.

    I only mention this because there’s so many FIV+ cats that get stuck in the shelters due to stigma, and wish I could save them all.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_immunodeficiency_virus