Local animal shelters temporarily halt cat adoptions due to illness

The Indianapolis shelter identified cats with symptoms of mycoplasma, upper respiratory infections, calicivirus or panleukopenia.

Shelters give information on what to do if you think your cat is sick.

IndyStar called several local shelters to see if others were affected. So far, only Marion and Johnson counties have reported issues

Learn more about the symptoms of these diseases from PetMD at bottom of article.

Animal shelters in Marion and Johnson counties have temporarily closed their cat rooms and halted intakes due to an illness outbreak among their feline populations.

The Indianapolis Animal Care Services alerted the public to this sudden outbreak on Sept. 19 in a social media post , where it explained that a "critical level" of cats had tested positive for highly contagious