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[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]

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. [/quote]

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