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[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]

DP and I disagree. PP's point that doing the right thing is the right thing, regardless of potential risks, is a sound one. Not enough people have the integrity to do what's right just because it's the right thing to do. On a thread where a lot of people are saying "it's probably no big deal" (and I agree that it's probably not likely to have catastrophic consequences), it still matters to high-integrity people to do the right thing. There's always that chance that it could go wrong, and if/when it does, having done the right thing covers everyone's backside.

Plus, you know, having your integrity where it should be and being accountable for yourself and your pets is the decent human thing to do.[/quote]

Well I think you and PP are highly obnoxious for repeated attempts to make this a moral issue. It's simply not. It's a practical one and it has nothing to do with my morals since [b]it impacts no one other than myself.[/b] [/quote]

Proof that you have no understanding of risk, probabilities or how viruses work. If the infected cat runs outside, it can bite another animal, who can then transmit it to someone else, or bite another human directly. These individuals will die. Surely you're not counting on your cat never going outside in their entire life. We all agree it might happen that way for your cat, but all the indoor cats I've ever known escaped several times in their lives.

Get your cat vaccinated as soon as is humanely possible for you. Don't get caught up in whether you should drop everything and do it today (of course not), but keep it on your radar, amid your millions of things to do, because it's important. No animal likes going to the vet, BTW. I have a vet that comes to my house for that very reason. He doesn't upsell or push for any sort of interventions, but he will vaccinate when your pet needs vaccines. His name is Dr. Perl and here is his website:
https://www.myvetcalls.com/

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