A Review of Cat Vaccinations
September 1st, 2008 at 08:58am Under Main Content
If you are looking for cat vaccinations in California, or New York, you can trust most local vets to give your cat the loving and expert care he deserves. They are keeping cats healthy to make your family’s lives better. However, because there are so many different strains of Flu, cat vaccinations will not totally eradicate the disease from the cat population, but your cats chances of suffering from it will be greatly reduced. There are two types of Cat Flu that are vaccinated against: feline herpesvirus (FHV-1) and feline calicivirus (FCV). Whether your feline is an indoor or outdoor Pet, regular cat vaccinations will help to improve and extend the quality of your cat’s life.
However vaccines for feline leukemia virus, feline infectious peritonitis virus, Chlamydia, ringworm, or the feline immunodeficiency virus are somewhat risky to the cat. Feline Leukemia vaccines can actually cause a form of cancer at the injection site. This is the reason most veterinarians do not recommend giving the vaccine to cats who are not at risk. Cat vaccines protect against feline leukemia, feline distemper, upper respiratory infections and rabies. Veterinarians usually recommend giving a young kitten a series of these vaccinations starting when the kitten is six to eight weeks old, and continuing every three to four weeks until the kitten is about four months old.
As part of your cat’s vaccination and wellness examination visit, a Licensed Veterinary Technicians (LVTs) will discuss your pet’s exposure risk to the feline diseases outlined on this page. With your input, our LVTs will assess your pet’s exposure risks. My one year old male cat, whom I love dearly, is due next week for his rabies and feline leukemia and now I am frightened to take him. He is strictly an inside cat except when he goes to the vet and occasionally my kids bring their cats to visit here at my house. The vaccines available for protection against feline panleukopenia are excellent and offer almost total immunity to the virus. Although an intranasal vaccine is available, the injectable vaccine is more effective.
Feline leukemia and FIP vaccines may not be necessary for your cat. Consider it’s lifestyle and environment. The noncore vaccines include feline leukemia (FeLV), feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), ringworm, and chlamydia. The AAFP recommends AGAINST FeLV vaccinations in totally indoor cats who have no exposure to other cats. Cats with leukemia will have lowered immune systems and can remain carriers for life. Positive cats are susceptible to other infections due to a depressed immune system.
Newer vaccines are available to protect against feline leukemia virus infection, feline infectious peritonitis virus and other infections (chlamydia, feline bordetella, ringworm). Current vaccination programs also protect our cats (and us) from the threat of rabies. Others group it with the so-called noncore diseases: feline leukemia virus (FeLV), feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and microsporum canis (ringworm). Inoculation with these noncore vaccines is recommended only for cats that are at risk for the diseases.
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