FIV cats to be adopted? You may think that FIV and adoption don’t belong in the same sentence. But there seems to be growing evidence that infected and non-infected cats can live happily side by side with no ill effects to the “well” kitties. How can this be?

Well, apparently the virus is not easily passed, similar to the human version, HIV, which is only passed when an exchange of bodily fluids occurs. A queen can pass the disease to her kittens, and a serious bite could pass the illness onto an uninfected cat. But other than that, since the virus can live mere seconds in the open air, your well cats are not in such grave danger when exposure occurs.

It may take a while for the prejudice against infected cats eases, but there is a lot of information on this topic that you can find on the internet.