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-rec...ure-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.

You're such a clown, pp. You're on this board, acting this way, all. the. time. It's not cute, it's not funny, and as much as you'd like to make it about the posters you try to insult, it's not about anybody but you.

Get help. You badly need it.

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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.

I think she knows she's arguing with all of us; she came here looking for a fight (which would explain why she allegedly hijacked someone else's thread, though I don't believe that's what's actually happening here).

She's here a LOT, and she is a lot (of not much).

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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-rec...ure-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.

You're such a clown, pp. You're on this board, acting this way, all. the. time. It's not cute, it's not funny, and as much as you'd like to make it about the posters you try to insult, it's not about anybody but you.

Get help. You badly need it.

I see that you still haven't calmed down. Perhaps there are other issues going on in your life which is why you're lashing out at strangers. Please go deal with whatever is making you so miserable.

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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.

I think she knows she's arguing with all of us; she came here looking for a fight (which would explain why she allegedly hijacked someone else's thread, though I don't believe that's what's actually happening here).

She's here a LOT, and she is a lot (of not much).

hahahahahaa oh now you know me? Please do tell.

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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-rec...ure-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.

You're such a clown, pp. You're on this board, acting this way, all. the. time. It's not cute, it's not funny, and as much as you'd like to make it about the posters you try to insult, it's not about anybody but you.

Get help. You badly need it.

I see that you still haven't calmed down. Perhaps there are other issues going on in your life which is why you're lashing out at strangers. Please go deal with whatever is making you so miserable.

Is this the person who was telling the posters saying she should follow the law and vax her cat(s) to "f off"? The only person on this thread who seemed at all miserable was her, as evidenced by her need to lash out at everyone. Nobody else lost their cool, so if this is you, stop projecting and go touch grass or something

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't you get the vaccine?

Vets are charging astronomical fees for every aspect of care. It is an obstacle to responsible pet owners.

If you're a Fairfax County resident, the shelter's Pet Resource Center runs a vaccine/microchip clinic twice a month (one Monday in Fairfax and one Friday in Lorton). Vaccines and microchips are $20 each.

My cats hate the carriers. They don't go in willingly, and one vomits every time. But obeying the law and keeping them healthy is my responsibility as a pet owner so I make it work.

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Oh good grief. Some people on here are really presumptuous to assume all cats have the same situation. My cat had a legit, documented anaphylaxis reaction years ago. I did (2) more 3 year ones with a special version afterwards and then stopped doing it during covid as it was expensive and required additional monitoring. Plus kitty was 13 yo by then and had NEVER once tried to escape the house. Kitty is now and in her final days due to cancer. I don't regret skipping the last few years one bit.

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Anonymous wrote:I know it is a state law. Just wondering what happens when people are non-compliant.

Nothing.
Just be sure it never gets out and around other animals, or that it never gets around rodents or eats any dead animals.

Heartworms are still a thing though, as it's impossible to keep 100% mosquito free place.

Some groomers and such might not treat a cat that hasn't been vaccinated.

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Goodness, it looks like this post turned into a big brawl and I'm not going to read 5 pages of it.

But OP, pretty much nothing will happen if you don't vaccinate for rabies; animal control won't come hunt you down or anything. But vets may refuse to see your pet without vaccinating it.

But bottom line: Rabies is probably the most horrific way to die that exists, at least with regard to infectious disease. It is horror movie bad. You don't want to live with an unvaccinated animal. Even if it is an indoor cat, it could get out (mine has -- several times). Even if you are in an apartment and there is nowhere for it to get out to, in 10 years that might not be the case. The chances of your indoor cat ever getting rabies is incredibly slim. But if you look up what rabies does to you ... well, if you do, and still don't vax your pet, you are stupid or crazy or both.

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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.

Vet here....a year ago, I had a bat IN MY HOUSE. I am lucky (?) enough to be savvy enough to trap the bat and send to animal control for testing. Yes, it means the bat died, but it also means my family did not have to undergo post-exposure injections. My cats are up-to-date on vaccinations too...(as am I)...so we didn't need to worry about quarantining them. It can take weeks-to-months for rabies to hit the central nervous system for the pet to show signs. I am not risking it.

I won't treat your pet unless it is vaccinated (unless there is a medical reason against it).

So, OP and PP, your dumb virtue signaling is ill-informed. It does matter.

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Nothing. I never vaccinate my indoor only cats for rabies, going on 40 years now.

And now I'm going to blow everyone's mind: I don't vaccinate my two little toy DOGS for rabies, either, unless forced because we are (rarely) flying on a plane. They don't board, they don't go to dog parks, they are never ever ever off leash, they don't go visit friends' homes, nada. They. Are. Not. Coming. Into. Contact. With. Rabid. Animals.

The one time my fill-in vet got huffy and insistent about the topic, I asked her to draw a titer instead. What do you know, the dog had adequate antibodies from the -last- rabies vaccine years before.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. I never vaccinate my indoor only cats for rabies, going on 40 years now.

And now I'm going to blow everyone's mind: I don't vaccinate my two little toy DOGS for rabies, either, unless forced because we are (rarely) flying on a plane. They don't board, they don't go to dog parks, they are never ever ever off leash, they don't go visit friends' homes, nada. They. Are. Not. Coming. Into. Contact. With. Rabid. Animals.

The one time my fill-in vet got huffy and insistent about the topic, I asked her to draw a titer instead. What do you know, the dog had adequate antibodies from the -last- rabies vaccine years before.

You're a dipshit, and I hope you're lucky enough to never fully understand just how stupid you are. I don't know what you gained not getting your animals vaxxed, especially since a titer is more than the shot itself, but congratulations in advance on your likely future Darwin award, pendejo.

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If the car ever accidentally gets out or you have a bat in your house,.you are asking for trouble if they aren't vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:Goodness, it looks like this post turned into a big brawl and I'm not going to read 5 pages of it.

But OP, pretty much nothing will happen if you don't vaccinate for rabies; animal control won't come hunt you down or anything. But vets may refuse to see your pet without vaccinating it.

But bottom line: Rabies is probably the most horrific way to die that exists, at least with regard to infectious disease. It is horror movie bad. You don't want to live with an unvaccinated animal. Even if it is an indoor cat, it could get out (mine has -- several times). Even if you are in an apartment and there is nowhere for it to get out to, in 10 years that might not be the case. The chances of your indoor cat ever getting rabies is incredibly slim. But if you look up what rabies does to you ... well, if you do, and still don't vax your pet, you are stupid or crazy or both.

This. It is pretty much 100% fatal and it is an absolutely horrible way to die (frankly an absolute mercy to pets that they're euthanized, with people it's a long death).

Cats get out sometimes. It's not required for the pets themselves, it's required to protect people. To protect humans from a terrible death.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. I never vaccinate my indoor only cats for rabies, going on 40 years now.

And now I'm going to blow everyone's mind: I don't vaccinate my two little toy DOGS for rabies, either, unless forced because we are (rarely) flying on a plane. They don't board, they don't go to dog parks, they are never ever ever off leash, they don't go visit friends' homes, nada. They. Are. Not. Coming. Into. Contact. With. Rabid. Animals.

The one time my fill-in vet got huffy and insistent about the topic, I asked her to draw a titer instead. What do you know, the dog had adequate antibodies from the -last- rabies vaccine years before.

You're a dipshit, and I hope you're lucky enough to never fully understand just how stupid you are. I don't know what you gained not getting your animals vaxxed, especially since a titer is more than the shot itself, but congratulations in advance on your likely future Darwin award, pendejo.

1., did I ever say money was the issue? No. I can afford shots, I can afford titers, I can afford well visits. Next!
2. Not only are my animals not being bit by rabid animals where I live ... NO domestic animals have been bit by rabid animals and tested positive where I live, in the last years stats were published. I wish subsequent years were searchable on the web but alas they are not.

Still, you can be sure that if a single domestic cat or dog in the District developed rabies from a wild mammal bite, we'd know about it via Fox News 5. Bats biting unvaxxed 100% indoor house cats and disseminating rabies is ... not a thing.


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