RABIES - Are your pets' vaccinations up to date?

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For the second time in two days in Durham County, a dog has been euthanized after being found with a rabid raccoon it had killed. The animals didn't have current vaccinations and the owners were unable or unwilling to arrange six months of quarantine.

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001

Answers

My cats are due for their vaccines in the next few weeks. If I don't make by the deadline, I think the penalty by my vet is just a one- year booster, rather than the three-year shot. Something like that.

Last year I tried lugging all of them over at the same time. The fat cat has to go into the crate with no handle. (Well, there was a handle, but I lifted it with her in the crate and it fell off.)

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001


Brooks, if your state is like others, it's nothing to do with your vet--it's state law to have the animal undergo a six-month quarantine or euthanization. As we all well know, all it takes is one infected bite or scratch. . . Thank God all my cats had current vaccinations.

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001

It was really more a matter of which rabies vaccine they get. If I miss the anniversary date by even a week or two, it's back to the one- year shot rather than the three-year. So, I'm trying to keep track this year because I don't think the rabies vaccine agrees with them very well.

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001

Oh I see. How odd. I don't see how it would make any difference. Hmm.

I quit giving them the leukemia shots because there had been so many reports of site-tumors; since they stay inside, it's not that much of a risk.

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001


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