Rehoming a cat that is a flue carrier

[reckneps]

I have recently reserved a lovely snow bengal kitten from my local RSPCA. Apparently he was living with 60 other kittens in a house and he is a flu carrier. I understand it will carry the flu for life and despite being vaccinated now, it will be able to spread to other cats. So my question is, can I 100% not get any other cats in the future? I understand even if you vaccinate another cat, being in close range means it could possibly get the flu...

Thanks for the help

[Janey]

Hi and welcome,
I don’t know the answer to this unfortunately, hopefully other users will be able to help. However, I have adopted elderly, sneezy cats in the past and been told that they will always be like this and is a s result of having had flu when they were younger. One of the cats I adopted was with another cat, they came from the same home but the other cat wasn’t sneezy. The other cat I adopted when I already had another elderly cat but he never caught it. Maybe there is a chance it could happen, but I don’t know. If you need to know this then probably the best person to ask is your vet.

[greenkitty]

As long as any other cats are vaccinated, if they do pick up the cat flu, the symptoms will be much less severe. I had a chronic flu carrier who lived with my other 3, one is now a bit sneezy and the other 2 are fine. As long as he is well cared for, stress kept to a minimum and any flare ups are dealt with promptly you should be ok.