Rabies

On Aug 22, 10:00*pm, "Granby" wrote:
I never heard of such a thing. *I always thought Rabies showed up with in
two weeks, not six months. *You need to look this up further and call around
to a couple of vets. *Six months, that is crazy. *I am almost positive it
was 10 days to two weeks

I think it's crazy too, but the info. Gingerlyn got, I believe is
correct.
The way a suspected rabies exposure case is handled varies wildly
according to whether the cat is currently vaccinated, has an out-of-
date
vaccination, or is not vaccinated at all.
I don't know what the reason is, but they won't vaccinate a cat until
the fifth
month of a six-month quarantine.
The fortunate thing (if there is one) is that here, the animals would
be seized
for quarantine at the vet's, at the owner's expense. They won't let
you
quarantine them at home, here. I am so glad that's not the case for
Ginger-lyn.
Here are the AMA guidelines for rabies.
http://www.avma.org/issues/policy/rabies_control.asp

Personally, unless the cats actually tangled with the bat and killed
it, I don't think
there's a great chance of real exposure. It's not that easy to catch
except through
direct saliva or blood contact.

Purrs aplenty. I am so sorry, Ginger-lyn.

Sherry

Ginger-lyn Summer wrote:
Please, please, you wonderful, caring people: I need your purrs and
prayers badly that all my cats and myself will be okay.

Lots and lots of purrs going your way Ginger-lyn, please keep us posted!

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In article , "Ginger-lyn Summer" wrote:

I talked to my vet, terrified I would not be able to get veterinary
care if one of them got sick in the next six months. She said I could
bring them in.

Best wishes from here, along with everyone else.

This seems like a question that the vet should be prepared to answer - what do
you do, if need be, in an emergency situation before five months? How could
they not answer a question like that?

Art

"Sherry" wrote

It's not that easy to catch except through
direct saliva or blood contact.

You cannot catch rabies by eating a rabid animal. It must bite you.

"Pat" wrote in message
et...

"Sherry" wrote

It's not that easy to catch except through
direct saliva or blood contact.

You cannot catch rabies by eating a rabid animal. It must bite you.



Rabies is almost always acquired via the bite of a rabid animal, but it is
possible to "catch" rabies by eating infected animals.
http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/reference/rabies.asp

MaryL

Sherry wrote:

On Aug 22, 10:00?pm, "Granby" wrote:

I never heard of such a thing. I always thought Rabies showed up with in
two weeks, not six months. You need to look this up further and call around
to a couple of vets. Six months, that is crazy. I am almost positive it
was 10 days to two weeks

I think it's crazy too, but the info. Gingerlyn got, I believe is
correct.
The way a suspected rabies exposure case is handled varies wildly
according to whether the cat is currently vaccinated, has an out-of-
date vaccination, or is not vaccinated at all.
I don't know what the reason is, but they won't vaccinate a cat until
the fifth month of a six-month quarantine.

The two-week quarantine (actually, it's 10 days, I think) occurs after
an animal (cat, dog - a pet animal, in other words) has *bitten* someone.
The reason for this is that once a animal that has been exposed to rabies
attacks, they will start to show other symptoms within 10 days. If they
don't have rabies, they won't show the other symptoms, so then it's save
to let them out of quarantine.

In the case of Ginger-lyn's cats, the cats didn't bite anyone, so the
10-day rule wouldn't apply, even if they got exposed by handling the bat
or being bitten by it. It takes a lot longer for an animal to become
symptomatic after the initial exposure. So that's a different milestone
from a biting incident, where the disease has already begun to show
symptoms (ie, the biting).

Hope that made sense!

I do think it's unfortunate that they can't be vaccinated immediately
after a potential exposure.

Joyce

--
"Bacteria, with a few more bells and whistles."
-- Bonnie Bassler, describing human beings

Ginger-lyn Summer wrote:
snip
Please, please, you wonderful, caring people: I need your purrs and
prayers badly that all my cats and myself will be okay.

Thank you so much.

Ginger-lyn
shattered

Lots of purrs on the way. It is *very* unlikely that either you or the cats
have been infected unless actually bitten by the bat, which was probably
already dead when they found it.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

In article ,
"Ginger-lyn Summer" wrote:

If I wrote my autobiography, people would think it belonged in the
fiction section. Not all these things could *possibly* happen to one
person -- except for me.

Last Monday, I stepped out into the hall to find a group of the cats
surrounding something that looked to me like a weird double hair ball.
I looked closer; it wasn't a hairball, it was a bat. A very dead bat.

Purrs and lots of positive energy on their ways for both the cats and
you. You must be shattered. On the other hand, rpca seems to have
rallied 'round for psychological support if nothing else (well, that and
a welter of advice!).

Blessed be,
Baird

--
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice
there is. -Yogi Berra

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:16:51 -0500, MaryL wrote:

"Pat" wrote in message
et...

"Sherry" wrote

It's not that easy to catch except through direct saliva or blood
contact.

You cannot catch rabies by eating a rabid animal. It must bite you.



Rabies is almost always acquired via the bite of a rabid animal, but it
is possible to "catch" rabies by eating infected animals.
http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/reference/rabies.asp

MaryL

It is also possible to catch rabies from touching an infected animal, if
the animal's saliva gets into an open scratch or other wound. This is
because the animal may have licked its fur shortly before dying. Humans
have caught rabies in this manner on occasion.

--
John F. Eldredge --
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

On Aug 22, 3:42*pm, "Ginger-lyn Summer"
wrote:

Please, please, you wonderful, caring people: *I need your purrs and
prayers badly that all my cats and myself will be okay.

I can't offer advice- as Tweed said rabies is not a problem n the UK
but we can send purrs by the ton

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs