I’m sure you have thought about the perfect cat - the right color, look, size, and personality.

It’s nice to read about some who are looking out for cats with FIV. Makes me feel good about being a cat lover.

Michael
Yokosuka cat lovers stepping up, adopting animals with FIV.

Japan leads world in rate of feline equivalent to HIV

By Allison Batdorff, Stars and StripesPacific edition, Thursday, September 28, 2006

 

 

Allison Batdorff / S&SPetty Officer 3rd Class Steven Haynes, above, and his wife, Alison, are adopting Maru, a cat diagnosed with FIV, the feline equivalent of HIV. The disease, which can be transmitted only to other cats, afflicts one of every four felines in Japan.YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan.

Around Yokosuka’s shelter they’re affectionately called the “AIDS kitties.”Two cats with the feline equivalent of HIV, called FIV for feline immunodeficiency virus, recently found their way to Pets Are Worth Saving shelter at Yokosuka Naval Base.Maru is one of them. The fat lap cat now lives with Petty Officer 3rd Class Steven Haynes and his wife, Alison, at Yokosuka Naval Base. They are adopting the male tom and don’t mind his species-specific disease. The other cat, Maggie, was adopted by a Japanese resident.

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