Our three are going for blood tests tomorrow!

**Scrapdragon** · 4th May 2010, 12:30 AM

hope all goes well!

**harrymc** · 4th May 2010, 08:54 AM

Hope everything goes well for you, keep us informed

**Louie-Louie** · 4th May 2010, 01:50 PM

Hope all went well at the vets x

**Menolly** · 4th May 2010, 03:12 PM

Oh yes, this was great fun! We had three disgruntled cats, much! We weren't sure whether they should have anything to eat or not, so decided on "not", and took their grazing bowls up last night.

Hobbes got crammed into one of the regular sized carriers (note to self: buy larger carrier soon) and wailed and wailed. Stuffed his paw through the mesh at the front and waggled it in desperation, then tried to dig his way out through the bottom.

Spike came downstairs and then went back up as soon as he saw his (giant) carrier. Got him in there in the end.

Whisper went in as she always does, with a whimper and a resigned look, bless her.

We did check their weights - Hobbes weighed in at 5.6kg, Spike is too embarrassed to confess his here

, but the weight of cat and carrier combined came out arounf 15.4kg. Whisper is a slender 5kg,but then she has always been "small"

Bloodwork should be back by the end of the week, we hope. Keeping fingers x'd that their titres are low enough for them to be vaccinated and for us to look for a buddy for Hobbes but it is most likely that we will have to wait 3 months and get them tested again!

**Louie-Louie** · 4th May 2010, 03:55 PM

Paws & claws crossed they will all be negative or at the worst very, very low x

**jckkerrison** · 4th May 2010, 07:43 PM

A few sleepless nights then,thinking of you all x

**Heather2mc** · 4th May 2010, 10:40 PM

Good luck with the results - thinking of you

**harrymc** · 4th May 2010, 10:52 PM

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Hobbes got crammed into one of the regular sized carriers (note to self: buy larger carrier soon) and wailed and wailed. Stuffed his paw through the mesh at the front and waggled it in desperation, then tried to dig his way out through the bottom.

Spike came downstairs and then went back up as soon as he saw his (giant) carrier. Got him in there in the end.

Whisper went in as she always does, with a whimper and a resigned look, bless her.

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Can picture the scene, especially Spike lol.

At least that's one trauma over with, keeping it all crossed it comes back ok

Alison & Harry x

**Scrapdragon** · 5th May 2010, 12:32 AM

fingers crossed everything goes well.

**Menolly** · 7th May 2010, 06:18 PM

Well, the results are back. Hobbes' titres are below 160 which is good, but Spike and Whisper's titres are 610

. The vet says we should (ideally) separate the cats, and then test 3 months down the road to see whether the "oldsters" titres go down. If they do, then we can probably get another kitten.

As we see it, this separation is going to be nigh on impossible! If we were a breeding cattery, with individual pens, then it would be do-able, but I can only see this stressing out all three cats (which is supposed to be one way that FIP develops from the coronavirus) and Hobbes is already lonely without Alice, so would be really sad without the others. The vet isn't sure whether the older cats have raised titres because they have been in contact with Alice and their immune systems are reacting this way because they are weaker (being older) or whether one of them gave Alice the virus and it then mutated into FIP.

What ARE we going to do? Does anyone have any advice, please?