Will You Accomplish These Three Baleful Mistakes Afore You Bring Your New Cat Home?

Bringing your new cat home can be abounding with dangers that abounding bodies don't realize. You can accomplish mistakes that can be baleful both to your new cat and to the bodies you already own even afore you acquaint your new cat to the household.

Mistake #1: Failing to accommodate your cat with her basal vaccinations. This can appear if you accept your cat from a friend, aces up a stray, baddest a babe from a litter, aces up one from a cattery or acquirement one from a pet shop.

The 5 basal vaccines a cat needs are:

o Rhinotracheitis. This is one of the high respiratory infections (URI) which bodies can bolt from added adulterated cats. It's characterized by sneezing, drooling, and aqueous eyes and nose.

o Artful Calicivirus (FCV). This is accession URI, which has abounding of the aforementioned affection of Rhinotracheitis. Mouth ulcers may accomplish it difficult for your cat to eat and drink.

o Artful Chlamydiosis, aswell accepted as artful pneumonitis, affects birds but can aswell be activate in cats. Your cat will acquaintance accident of appetite, fever, coughing and adversity in breathing. This can advance to pneumonia.

o Panleukopenia, contrarily accepted as "distemper". If your cat affairs this, her white claret corpuscle calculation will abatement beneath accustomed and her allowed arrangement will not be able to bulwark off added diseases. Since the lining in her abdomen can become damaged, she may activate to barf and accept astringent diarrhea.

o Rabies. This is the feared "disease of all diseases", which can be transmitted to bodies through beastly bites. Your cat's academician will cool and she will initially acquaintance astringent appetite and ultimately go mad. You accept to accept her vaccinated for Rabies.

These vaccinations are automatically taken affliction of if you accept a cat from the Beastly Shelter or the Humane Society, but abounding bodies who access bodies in added means are either not acquainted that their animals accept to be vaccinated, or anticipate that "their cat will be the exception" and escape infection.

Keep durably in apperception that your cat apparently will arrangement one of these (or all of them) if she is not vaccinated, and will betrayal you and your artful domiciliary to austere danger, decidedly in the case of Rabies.

Mistake #2: Failure to get a complete medical checkup.

Strays that appearance up on your doorstep, or bodies acquired in added ways, can accept abeyant viral diseases that can be transmitted to the added bodies in your household. If your new accession is already infected, vaccinating her will be a abortive effort. If your absolute bodies are not adulterated but aswell not vaccinated, your new cat can affect them.