chanda and i took hermione to visit the vet today as she's always hungry and eats a lot but never gains weight. they took some blood to determine if it could be the thyroid.
chanda worked on her violin and chemistry today before going to ballet. i made a bunch of phone calls dealing with my parents' house out on long island. the woman who will be renting it this summer called wondering how we would handle switching the electric and wifi bills over to her name. we had a very nice conversation.
Have you gotten the results back? Interesting, I never thought cats could have that. By the way, how often do you do the rabies shot for your cats?
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We're trying to keep the house.
DeleteThey're indoor cats so we haven't done the Rabies vaccine.
I haven't received the results yet. I'm giving them until next week.
I somewhere read that the rabies vaccine was mandatory in NYS, no? I even read about fines that can be imposed on you if you do not do it.
DeleteHere is a link and it does say it is mandatory, even for indoor cats. And it does talk about fines. And here is the official document. I just think that depending of the vaccine you use, you have a choice about how often you do it.
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DeleteThanks for the information Eva:)
DeleteI just found this out myself a few weeks ago. I had not idea and we had never been told that when taking Julius to the vet.
DeleteYes, it's funny that you had him to the vet also and hadn't heard. Where and when did you find out?
DeleteWe had one of those vaccination cards on our bulletin boards (sent out by the vet) and normally I kind of ignore them, but then I wondered how often you really have to immunize a cat for that because I knew he had been immunized several times. So I started to do some research and found out it was mandatory! I always thought the cards were just sent out by the vets to make some extra money, but I guess that is not the purpose. So we will have to make an appointment. I don't want to end up paying some huge fine in case somebody ever decides to look into all those vaccination records. I think they are stricter with dogs because dogs actually do attack people and can make them sick. Cats are normally quite harmless, but you never know. But I do think they should tell you when you take your animal to the vet and not make it sound it was optional.
DeleteP.S. I just read that a week before Easter when I was cleaning up our bulletin board.
DeleteYes, they were always much more on top of things with Jack! Maybe they don't feel it's so necessary with Julius . . though he is outside a lot and could easily get into a fight with an animal that might be ill.
DeleteI think out here in the country people are not so strict, but I still don't want to end up with a fine.
DeleteInternal parasites maybe? Hope they can sort the problem poor thing :-(
ReplyDeleteYour knitting, cooking and cake baking looked good. Hope your mum and dad are doing ok xx
I brought in a stool sample because I thought parasites might be a problem . . but she didn't test it and didn't think it was a possibility . . . :(
DeleteStrange, in human beings it could be a possibility.
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