Advice please - previous FPV

[realbutterplease]

Back in Feb we adopted 2 kittens who died within days of us bringing them home (I had a thread on here asking advice). The vets suspicion, and their symptoms all point to to FPV that they likely contracted at the rescue. It’s 8 weeks later and we may have the opportunity to rehome 2 delightful boys aged 10months (from a different rescue). We know their full history, they have just been neutered and chipped and we went to visit them yesterday. We have the rescue doing a home visit to us tomorrow.

Since the boys died (and they were only in the living room) we have binned all blankets, cat bed, living room rug, disinfected and steam cleaned the floored, then I’ve done it again with anigene making sure it soaked into floor, skirting boards etc, washed the sofa covers in anigene pet laundry fluid. The issue that still makes me really anxious is that these kittens are not vaccinated. If the rescue can’t do this and keep them for another week (that we would pay for) would I be irresponsible in still adopting them but keeping them upstairs in another room until we have had them vaccinated? We do have a 4 floor house (town house type so not enormous, just a taller one set over more floors!) so it is possible to keep them out of the living room.

my heart and head are really at odds 😞 the rescue may not agree yet, they do know the story of what happened before.

Are you talking about the disease that is the same as human HIV ?

Nope, FIV is the cat equivalent of human AIDS - FPV is the same as parvovirus in dogs. FIV is contracted via bodily fluids e.g. a bite, whereas FPV is contracted from the faeces of infected cats.

@realbutterplease I would ask the advice of the shelter and your vet, as the virus can last for months or even a year or more but you do seem to have done everything you can to get rid of any remnants. I gather bleach is the recommended disinfectant for Parvo.

Ah I see thank you @Allergictoironing

Thanks, the vet recommended anigene to clean with and that’s what the rescues use too. The one we got the kittens from before said they use this to clean their enclosures. I’ll ask later when she comes to visit. The room we can keep them in is 2 floors up from the living room and then kittens were with us for such a short time. I’ve been told older cats which these 2 are, and vaccination is the best prevention of reoccurrence, alongside time. Google tells me different things, chat gpt said could be a few years! 😔

10 months old is a big plus point in their favour as they should have much better immune systems by now. Plus as an added bonus, you have a much better idea as to their adult personalities - you can never be sure what a small kitten may turn out like.

Update - the rescue are going to vaccinate first and then we will pick them up. I’m so relieved! I’ll be cleanings again like a mad woman before picking them up. We’ve passed the house check so now just to let the kids know!