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I've always wondered how some people can have only one cat


We've been a two-cat family for many years, but we'd always "leapfrog" them... when one died, we would get another kitten.

Until the vet finally told us, only after the third diagnosis, that the disease they were dying from, FIP, was 100 percent contagious with a long incubation period, mostly affecting cats when they got older. We had been allowing the disease to pass from cat to kitten to cat to kitten... And each cat died from the same disease. We thought it was just in the environent or something, instead we were spreading it.

Once we realized this, of course, we didn't get another kitten. Our current cat must be carrying it, but probably won't show symptoms for years. When she dies, we'll probably take a break from cats for a while, but after that we'll be able to get two again.
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Tony Fabris