"New" Feline Rabies Vaccine?

[AvaJoy]

For the health of every cat, please read the information on vacines from Dr. Lisa Pierson at the following website: http://catinfo.org/?link=vaccines and I'm sorry if it is not "clickable" but I'm not sure how to do that.

She advises to administer ONLY one year rabies, live. Never 3 year killed because risk of sarcoma is greater.

I have read most all of her essays on various feline health topics contained on her website, and have changed several ways that I care for my cats, thanks to her.

I will try to make her home page clickable: http://catinfo.org Hopefully it worked. Down the right side are various topics and you will find vaccinations. For the health of your cats I hope everyone reading this will peruse her website and please discontinue feeding dry food. I'd like to make a big warning poster and hang it in the dry cat food aisle at PetSmart with her website to share what I have learned. I only wish I had discovered her website years ago.

[maerlyn]

It's nice to see my own vet's advice on vaccination validated by another doctor.

The subject of canned vs. dry food has been done to death on Catster. Some cats,evidently, refuse to eat canned food. In my case, I simply haven't the finances to feed only canned; I did upgrade to Taste of the Wild dry, which is grain-free. In the evenings, I split a 12.5-oz can of Dave's among the three housecats; they seem to love it - or at least one of them does, as the dishes are all empty in the morning. Smokey and Shadow get grocery-store dry, although the TOTW seems to be lasting longer in the house, so I may be able to start feeding the outdoor cats that, too.

Years ago, before there was such a thing as a "premium" cat food, I had two cats that were free-fed on dry food; Cassandra lived to be almost 17 and went to the Bridge from a blood clot; Kalli was just 5 months short of 20 when she went from the same cause. I don't think grocery-store food is the best thing to feed a cat, but I don't think it kills them either. Cassandra, as I recall, was never sick; Kalli did develop diabetes which went into remission (and I understand that dry food may encourage diabetes); other than that, her major illness was an infection around the heart which was in no way caused by diet.

We all do the best we can with the resources at hand; I feed some premium food, but I won't think less of anyone who feeds the "lesser" brands.