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Last Friday I got a girl kitten from the Cattery on County Road near where I live who is 12 weeks old for company for my older cat who is a year old. I paid £70 for the kitten which on the stipulation of rehoming her covered her fees to be speyed, microchipped and her jabs over the course of the next few months. There were six other cats there in the cattery along with the kitten I acquired. The kitten was brought here on Friday and she seemed okay, a little bit underweight for my liking but even so. She seemed quite happy at first for the first couple of days when you only had to touch her head for her to start purring until Sunday afternoon when she seemed to change in an instant without any previous heed or warning and became very lethargic and listless, not eating or drinking her food and water despite eating reasonably well in the first day or two and just sitting there with her head bowed down and just generally down in herself. My girlfriend took her the vets on Monday morning which was free of charge as part of the stipulation of rehoming her also that if she is ill in the first two weeks of rehoming her with us. They gave her a few needles and a dose of anti-biotics via needle also. Her situation didn't improve Monday afternoon and night and I was awoken at 4am this morning to her trying to poop in my other cats litter tray but without any food there was nothing there to come out. We had been feeding her water through a plastic syringe to at least keep some fluids in her body while she wasn't eating or drinking. My girlfriend took her back to the vets this morning as she had shown no improvement in the preceeding 24 hrs who then advised to refer her to their other branch in Wavertree where they have now placed her on a drip to help her fight the virus that they think she has in this ''Panleukapenia''. I have done a bit of reading up on the said virus and it doesn't seem hopeful for her as kittens tend to die from the virus more often than not apparently according to various internet sites. I am extremely angry for various reasons. Mainly because the Cattery sold us the cat whilst she probably had this virus with sharing litter trays etc with other cats at this cattery who are sadly probably all infected with the virus. If we didn't have our other cat vaccinated then that Cattery's negligence with this could have affected my other cat who thankfully seems okay at present. I can't see any other explanation for it. My elder cat who we have had for a year almost certainly isn't a carrier as she has had all her jabs even though she is due for a booster jab anytime now and we would have noticed symptoms anyway. That surely means the Cattery sold us the cat with the virus already but I don't understand why it took two days to flare up. Why didn't she show the symptoms prior to that on the first night we got her? Very confused and angry with it all. Surely the Cattery are guilty of negligence here? The little kitten is currently as I say on a drip in a vet in Wavertree and the vet have said she could die but didn't state she would definitely. I am assuming they will be giving her anti-biotics and fluids to help keep her going. Has anybody elses cat on here had this virus? Even if they had to be put to sleep please just say. Are there many success stories of kittens or cats recovering and leading a healthy life? I read that if she survives the first five days of the symptoms showing she has a better chance of living? Any help on this would be much appreciated. Both with advice on the kitten and advice on how we would be best to speak to the Cattery about this who's cats they have in residence there must surely all have this virus as it is apparently very contageous.