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"FIV infected cats are often unnecessarily euthanised." Indoor cats tend to be paired with one or more cat/s. This means, should it be passed, instead of one cat having a slow murderous disease, many will. Indoor/Outdoor cats can pass it on through neighborhood travel. Outdoor cats do the same. To save a cat it must be quarantined. If the cat was previously an outdoor or indoor/outdoor cat this can cause depression to the point of self starvation. Should it live with others you put them at risk. The only sure way to save an FIV infected cat, and to keep the infection from passing on, is to quarantine that individual cat alone in a house. Since most owners aren't willing to give away one cat when the other will soon experience pain, they decide on murder. Honestly, since you never know how sick a cat is really feeling (cats tend to accept constant inflicting pain and give off minimal signs), it's better to end the suffering before it begins. By the way, it's euthanized, not euthanised. 69.244.142.61 22:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC) Actually, both spellings are correct. You do realize (realise) that Americans and much of the rest of the world spell several groups of words (-er/re, -or/our, and -ize/ise endings in particular) differently right? You probably should before you make spelling-nazi remarks (a simple correction edit would have sufficed). That said I agree with what you say about the "unnecessary" killing of cats. The necessity of killing a sick cat is largely up to opinion and situation, and thus not NPOV. I have removed the word unnecessary from the article.--129.128.147.200 17:59, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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