After Shorty lost hair following a vaccination, none of my cats get anything. Harley is the only one to venture off the deck and he goes to a neighbors house to visit with her, then comes home. Clyde our mountain lion has never gotten less than 150 ' from the house plus rabies is the least of my problems with him.
---- Ardy Robertson <ar...@centurytel.net> wrote: > Yes, he had the vaccination and quit eating/drinking so they gave him sub-cu > fluids and put him on some pills. I read the side effects of the pills and > it said it could cause convulsions in puppies but there had never been a > recorded case of convulsions in cats. Scotchy had a convulsion and died. I > told them that it must have been a side effect of the pills but they didn't > think so. I believe it all started with the rabies vaccination. Now, I do > not vaccinate my cats for rabies if they are going to be lifetime house > cats. I had to get a stray cat vaccinated for rabies because I was getting > her spayed and they would not spay until she was vaccinated. She turned into > a very expensive stray because I took her in to be fixed, and they did an > ultrasound and found babies! So we had to wait until her babies were born to > get her spayed. I was able to find good homes for all 4 of the babies. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of > Lorrie > Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 2:13 PM > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Scotchy > > On 10-25, Ardy Robertson wrote: > > > Ya, after Scotchy died following his rabies vaccination, they insisted > > on testing him for rabies because he had dug his claws into my arm > > hanging onto me for dear life when I took him back to the vet. They > > said they had to be sure he didn't have rabies in which case I would > > have been exposed. I had to pay $100 for them to send his head to > > Madison to be tested for rabies. They were really encouraging me to > > pay $700 to send his whole body down there. > > Hello!! I already had a dead cat - if they wanted to send his whole > > body they could do it without my $700. (I paid the $100 and tried not > > to think about what was going to happen.) > - > How awful for you. I'm sorry you lost Scotchy and went thru that ordeal. > Did he die due to a reaction from his rabies vaccination? > > Lorrie > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org