ganime
09-10-2002, 07:33 AM
Hello everybody,
I guess this concerns the human health more than cat health but since it's health-related i am posting under this forum.
When I got Karamel first,I took him to the vet for vaccine against Rabbies (we have occasional cases of Rabbies here in Turkey from time to time) and Cyst shot. I though that was all for the first year. But later I learned from my sister-in-law madeguada that she takes her cats every 3 months for the cyst shot because the vet told her it needs to be repeated every 3 months. Well i didn't know that. I made a search in a Turkish cat forum and learned that it's common practice to give the kitties a shot every 3 months. But some people argued that these shots are not vaccines that will protect from the illnes but just parasite-killers. So we are injecting pesticides to our cats without even knowing if they have the parasite. They said there is an orally applicable form of the medicine etc. etc.
My question is: is this the regular practice in other countries and since my Karamel never goes out and has no contact with other cats, does he need to be given this cyst shot? I take care not to feed him raw or unreliable meat products so he has no way of contracting the disease.
Thanks in advance for your responses.
I guess this concerns the human health more than cat health but since it's health-related i am posting under this forum.
When I got Karamel first,I took him to the vet for vaccine against Rabbies (we have occasional cases of Rabbies here in Turkey from time to time) and Cyst shot. I though that was all for the first year. But later I learned from my sister-in-law madeguada that she takes her cats every 3 months for the cyst shot because the vet told her it needs to be repeated every 3 months. Well i didn't know that. I made a search in a Turkish cat forum and learned that it's common practice to give the kitties a shot every 3 months. But some people argued that these shots are not vaccines that will protect from the illnes but just parasite-killers. So we are injecting pesticides to our cats without even knowing if they have the parasite. They said there is an orally applicable form of the medicine etc. etc.
My question is: is this the regular practice in other countries and since my Karamel never goes out and has no contact with other cats, does he need to be given this cyst shot? I take care not to feed him raw or unreliable meat products so he has no way of contracting the disease.
Thanks in advance for your responses.