Be meticulous with the cat toilet, and since he has issues with respiratory infections, make sure the cat litter does not create too much dust. Other than that, keep weighting the cat on the regular, since weight loss is an early indicator for issues. A yearly blood count, serum biochemical analysis, and urine analysis can catch issues early.

Thanks for taking a FIV+ cat in! My mother's two cats were FIV+ (she was helping out a shelter with harboring FIV+ cats, and those two stayed in the end), and they lived for years without major issues with regular screening and early prevention if issues popped up.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Shoot yeah I forgot I was going to keep buying "low dust" litter when I first was wondering if both he and I were getting allergies, but I haven't bought "low dust" ones recently. Even still it looks like the standard clay litter is always dusty even if it has a "low dust" formulation.

I'm not really too keen on switching the type of litter to be something like those wood pellets either. Seems like the other types are more complicated and a lot of cats don't like them. He's used to standard clay litter.