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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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).[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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