[Felvtalk] Scotchy

[dlgegg at windstream.net]

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 <ardyr at 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-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of
> Lorrie
> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 2:13 PM
> To: felvtalk at 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
> 
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