What happens if you don’t get your (indoor cat) a rabies shot?

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

How many times do I need to tell you I'm not OP? Please FFS read before responding. I never said I refuse to vaccinate on principle. EVER. So yes, please do F off already.

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If you can't be bothered to take your cat to the vet once a year, you shouldn't have a cat. The vaccines and tests they do (like parasite tests) protect both you and your cat. Cats are also notoriously stoic about pain so unless you're qualified and able to do things like check their teeth and abdomen you could be missing serious health problems.

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Get the cat the shot, you never know when it might get out and I am sure you don't want it to get rabies!

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

How many times do I need to tell you I'm not OP? Please FFS read before responding. I never said I refuse to vaccinate on principle. EVER. So yes, please do F off already.

So why are you riling people up and fighting everyone? Get off this board already and get your cat vaccinated

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

How many times do I need to tell you I'm not OP? Please FFS read before responding. I never said I refuse to vaccinate on principle. EVER. So yes, please do F off already.

So why are you riling people up and fighting everyone? Get off this board already and get your cat vaccinated

Is everyone you???

Worry about your own cat and I'll get mine vaccinated when I damn well please.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

How many times do I need to tell you I'm not OP? Please FFS read before responding. I never said I refuse to vaccinate on principle. EVER. So yes, please do F off already.

That's at least two different posters you've told to eff off, btw. Maybe just get your stupid cat vaxxed instead of acting rabid on the mommyboard?

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

How many times do I need to tell you I'm not OP? Please FFS read before responding. I never said I refuse to vaccinate on principle. EVER. So yes, please do F off already.

So why are you riling people up and fighting everyone? Get off this board already and get your cat vaccinated

Is everyone you???

Worry about your own cat and I'll get mine vaccinated when I damn well please.

That's not how being a responsible pet owner works. There are laws for public safety because jerks like you can't get it right even if told; just imagine what the rabies rate would be if we left you to your own devices. Your pet is overdue, you're the AH for not getting that situation resolved, and in the time you've spent lashing out at anons on the mommyboard about it, you could've solved your problem.

May you encounter nothing but the mirror reflection of your own selfish stupidity until/unless you get this fixed. The possibility that you're a parent while being this completely unhinged is terrifying. Your poor pet, your poor neighbors... I pity anyone who has to interact with your idiocy. Fix yourself.

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Does the rabid poster realize she's arguing with basically all the posters?

You're very much in the minority, OP. Straighten yourself out.

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Does the rabid poster realize she's arguing with basically all the posters?

You're very much in the minority, OP. Straighten yourself out.

Excuse me, Rabid Poster. I note you are not OP. Straighten yourself out just the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

How many times do I need to tell you I'm not OP? Please FFS read before responding. I never said I refuse to vaccinate on principle. EVER. So yes, please do F off already.

That's at least two different posters you've told to eff off, btw. Maybe just get your stupid cat vaxxed instead of acting rabid on the mommyboard?

I can see that you still haven't learned how to read. Not stopping you from blabbing on though.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. If you regularly shop around for new vets, they're going to miss that the cat isn't vaccinated. A lot of things in life are up to your own sense of ethics and morals, OP. Virtue is often its own reward. The shit hits the fan only rarely. Would you be devastated if a human died of rabies because your cat was infected? Are you prepared to gamble?

This has nothing to do with morals or virtue for FFS. If your cat never goes outside, the risk that the cat would contract rabies and ever be able to infect someone is basically non-existent. However, your dumb virtue signaling over something that doesn't even matter is on full display.

PP you replied to. No, I'm an animal biologist and I understand the situation from a biomedical point of view. You never know if your cat is going to get spooked, run out and possibly get rabies from wildlife (even in urban or suburban areas). You ever know if a rabid bat will enter your home (this has happened before). This is something you do for the good of the community, because even though the risk is small, the consequences will be fatal. Rabies has a mortality rate of over 99% and easily jumps the species barrier. You can skip some other vaccines, but you don't skip the rabies vaccine.

With respect, it's you who doesn't grasp the medical situation here.

You still didn't disprove that the risk is so minimal that I'm simply not choosing to put this on the top of my list of things to worry about. Next time we go I'll get the cat vaccinated. But I'm not worried about stray bats enough to make it a special trip.

If your cat(s) have no prior shots, you're an idiot. It's a quick shot, you can get them cheap at a shot clinic, and there's a reason there are laws about this. And if you chance it and miss? it's 4 shots for rabies prophylaxis: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

Don't fsck around. Just vax your stupid cat(s).

Perhaps learn to read? I said I vaccinate but simply skipped one year because I had no need to take them in and plan to get them the vaccine next time I go. I simply don't think it's worth the special trip since my cats never go outside. The only stupid one here is you.

Nope, still you. Best of luck with your dice roll. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you, literally or figuratively.

I'm picturing a child with fingers stuck in her ears going "la, la, la, la" and throwing a tantrum instead of taking a moment to read and realize that you're wrong.

Vanity, step away from the mirror and make your cat a shot appointment. You're a mess.

Learn how to read. Makes your arguments much stronger when you're actually debating facts.

The facts, as you wrote them, are that you "simply don't think it's worth the special trip" to do your job as a responsible pet owner, despite a now three-page thread explaining why it is and why you should.

There's no debating the fact that you're an idiot and an AH. You said so yourself.

I'm sorry that you're too dumb to realize that the risk I'm taking is simply not worth the hysteria you're projecting. I'll get my cats vaccinated next time I go to the vet. You can F right off already.

You're the only one having a massive tantrum and swearing. If you're the OP and were the one to originally ask the question, I don't understand why you're angry: you asked, people answered. If you don't like the answers, you look silly swearing at people.

There's a difference between refusing to vaccinate for rabies on principle and being late for a vaccine you were meaning to get anyway. The former is never acceptable, the latter sometimes happens, because life gets in the way. You made it seem like you were acting on the former, and now you're defending yourself based on the latter. Did the lectures you received from multiple people make you change your mind, even though you're claiming you were always going to get your cat vaccinated at some point? Once you step away from this board, you are going to revert to not vaccinating, because it will never be a priority?

You don't need to answer. But you sure look mighty foolish.

How many times do I need to tell you I'm not OP? Please FFS read before responding. I never said I refuse to vaccinate on principle. EVER. So yes, please do F off already.

So why are you riling people up and fighting everyone? Get off this board already and get your cat vaccinated

Is everyone you???

Worry about your own cat and I'll get mine vaccinated when I damn well please.

That's not how being a responsible pet owner works. There are laws for public safety because jerks like you can't get it right even if told; just imagine what the rabies rate would be if we left you to your own devices. Your pet is overdue, you're the AH for not getting that situation resolved, and in the time you've spent lashing out at anons on the mommyboard about it, you could've solved your problem.

May you encounter nothing but the mirror reflection of your own selfish stupidity until/unless you get this fixed. The possibility that you're a parent while being this completely unhinged is terrifying. Your poor pet, your poor neighbors... I pity anyone who has to interact with your idiocy. Fix yourself.

Hold on, I'm going to get you a tissue. Please breathe in and out. You're hyperventilating.

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lol that anyone thinks they are a responsible pet owner but doesn’t do the basics of what is required by law to own a pet.