Small & Mighty Organizations

My organization just had an outbreak of Calisi virus. Fortunately caught it the day symptoms appeared so we are treating eight kitties all six or seven weeks old. I would love to hear anyone's experience with Kalisi and what did you throw away during your cleanup process? Clearly, it's difficult to throw out items That typically are reusable and we're just trying to figure out if we need to toss out anything more than the toys?🧸 

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Jean Harman
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I bin all toys and litter scoops. All soft items you can soak in bleach and then hot wash at 60ºC. I didn't have any repeat outbreaks with using those items after cases last year.

Otherwise,  use as much disposable stuff as possible. So they have cardboard boxes for beds that I throw out at the end. Toys - I give them old  things that I don't want to keep or things like balls of paper, toilet roll tubes etc.

I try and use old litter boxes that I will dispose of afterwards (but if not, I spray with Oxivir [accelerated hydrogen peroxide] in case there is something else I missed,  and leave an hour, then soak a few  hours in bleach after that - often overnight for bleach though you don't need to do that long, it's just I have limited amounts of time for cleaning each day!).

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Bettina Vine
Animal Health Director
The Kitten Connection
Peniche, Portugal
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Thank you!  Insightful.

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Jean Harman
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-01-2024 03:53 AM
From: Bettina Vine
Subject: What experience has your group had with Calicivirus?

I bin all toys and litter scoops. All soft items you can soak in bleach and then hot wash at 60ºC. I didn't have any repeat outbreaks with using those items after cases last year.

Otherwise,  use as much disposable stuff as possible. So they have cardboard boxes for beds that I throw out at the end. Toys - I give them old  things that I don't want to keep or things like balls of paper, toilet roll tubes etc.

I try and use old litter boxes that I will dispose of afterwards (but if not, I spray with Oxivir [accelerated hydrogen peroxide] in case there is something else I missed,  and leave an hour, then soak a few  hours in bleach after that - often overnight for bleach though you don't need to do that long, it's just I have limited amounts of time for cleaning each day!).

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Bettina Vine
Animal Health Director
The Kitten Connection
Peniche, Portugal
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