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Post by anxi0us on Apr 13, 2018 17:21:12 GMT -5
The title might have been confusing...
FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis) is a fatal disease only found in cats. I'm pretty sure none of the cats in Warriors had it, but I really hope to see this in warriors, I know it sounds cruel to WANT to see it, but it might make future developments interesting, if there is/was a cat with FIP please correct me ;_;
If a cat did have FIP or some other disease, how do you think it would effect the series?
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Post by Tas on Apr 13, 2018 17:31:29 GMT -5
Describe it? What are the symptoms?
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Post by Firestorm on Apr 13, 2018 18:51:21 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with FIP. I've worked with/been around a lot of cats and honestly, FIV and FeLV are so common, I don't see how they haven't made it into Warriors yet. Especially with there being Clans full of un-vaccinated, uncontrolled breeding cat populations! I think a wave of FIV or such would be an interesting plot for a book, since the medicine cats would have no idea how to control it and they would probably interpret it as a sign from StarClan or something.
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Post by anxi0us on Apr 13, 2018 23:03:44 GMT -5
FIP Symptoms
-Fever that doesn't respond to antibiotics
-Anorexia
-Weight loss
-Lethargry
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Post by Rainshadow on Apr 14, 2018 12:37:40 GMT -5
Being vaccinated or not makes no difference in the case of FIP. There IS a vaccin for it but even the company that made it admits that it doesn't work. Worse, it could even induce it.
The FIP-virus is actually a mutation of the FEC virus (Feline Enteric Coronavirus). FECV is very common in large populations of cats (about 80 - 90% of the cats around the lake would have it) but it only causes mild diarrhoea. In rare cases (about 2%) though FECV can mutate into the FIP virus. FIP is incurable though apparently a very, very small population of cats are immune to the FECV entirely and thus can never get FIP as well.
There are two different variants of FIP: the 'wet' and the 'dry' one. Which one a cat gets depends on how good their immune system is working. 'Wet' is the worst and most cats die within a week of developing symptoms. The 'dry' variant is milder aka the cat might survive another year or so.
In case of the 'wet' variant fluid has leaked into body cavities aka areas where it shouldn't be. It causes pressure upon different organs and thus symptoms depend on where the fluid has gathered. The leakage usually happens in the abdomen (hence the name peritonitis : inflammation of the peritoneum (the thin covering of abdominal organs)) but it can happens elsewhere as well.
The 'dry' variant progresses more slowly and there is no leakage of fluid. Instead there form granulomas (groups of inflammation cells) in different organs. Again, symptoms depend on where (which organs) they form.
...I'm not really sure why I typed all that (I even severely shortened it) but at any rate, a warrior cat with FIP would either die quickly if they have the 'wet' variant or live a somewhat longer but definitely unpleasant life.
And a cat with FIV would be horrible in their world. With all the fighting and blood on blood contact they have, it would spread like wildfire. FeLV too with all that close cat contact should be widespread among them. I'm thorn on wether I'd want to see it or not. If it could help convince people to keep their FIV cats indoor then perhaps a FIV outbreak wouldn't be such a bad idea for the series.
Plus, it could thin out the population of TC a bit...
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