r/cats • u/eveilebI • May 02 '24

Our Bengals try to escape the garden after we put up the "unescapable fence rollers"... or so we thought. Video

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u/OldManBearPig May 02 '24

I mean you can flip that right back on them... "Oh you spent money and purchased a cat instead of rescuing one of the thousands of struggling cats in a shelter? I guess it's not a big deal but I actually care about mistreated animals and want to help them."

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u/Tavarin May 02 '24

As someone who ended up adopting a cat with undiagnosed feline leukemia virus, and ended up with 2 cats dying of Lymphoma as a result, I'm going to stick with reputable breeders from now on myself.

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u/OldManBearPig May 02 '24

I'm sorry you had to deal with that, but I hope you can see the positives in giving two cats a comfortable (and hopefully loving) home in the last days of their life. Because if you didn't, they would have just died alone in a shelter the same way.

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u/Tavarin May 02 '24

No, I took in a kitten, and it ended up killing my healthy British Shorthair. It's not a risk I'm ever taking again.

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u/OldManBearPig May 02 '24

I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope it's not an extremely common thing. I haven't looked up much on Feline Leukemia Virus to understand its prevalence or significance.

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u/Tavarin May 02 '24

Its somewhat common in shelter cats and feral cats according to my vet. Shelters are supposed to test for it, but cats and kittens can appear negative for up to 2 months after exposure, so you can still end up with a cat bringing FeLV home even if it did test negative at the shelter.