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[barnabydaisy]

Hi its a long shot but we have had our 12 year old cats vaccinated every year against flu and leukemia and it is about £100 a time. has anyone any idea if its worth it as they never really come across any other cats( the chucks see to that!) and i have read many things about it being a waste of money and that they really only need the one lot when they are kittens. any advice as i would feel awfull if i don't get them done and they catch something.

Thanks!

Mim x

[Louise]

I have never had any of my cats vaccinated Mim but the problem you have is the vaccine will eventually wipe out your animals own immune system

 

It also depends what the prevalence of the really nasty diseases are in your area Cat flu is not as bad as the vet will make out but if you have a reservoir of leukaemia infected cats around it IS quite a nasty disease

 

Apart from the three legged loon who terrorises mine I have no other cats near me so I can get away with it but even when I lived in Oxford I didn't bother and only ever lost animals to the wheels of cars and once to an unvaccinatable virus

[Paola]

My last moggie who lived to 21 never had jabs Having said that she started life as a house cat. My new kitten will have jabs because I want her to have a passport.

[Tina C]

I can only speak from my own experience. I have a 14 year old cat who has never had vaccinations. I fully intended to follow the usual pattern but she snapped her femur when she was tiny and spent a while in 'hospital' and I just never got round to it after that. She was the runt of the litter and a bit of a poor old thing (she has had liver and kidney damage for years) but she has until recently had freedom to come and go and has never caught anything. Unfortunatley the cat flap is now locked because we have had a problem with bully cats and she has been weeing in the house and has lost control of her 'territory'.

 

I suppose there is the 'herd immunity' argument in that if every one else's cat is protected then she is less likely to catch something but I would probably do the same thing again IF I got another cat. However, if you use catteries they usually only accept vaccinated cats.

 

My feeling is that your cats have had a good life and they are going to go sometime, so if you don't want to pay out more money just now then don't feel too guilty. Sorry that sounds a bit uncaring but it isn't meant to be.

 

I am sure someone will be along to call me irresponsible. Oh dear. However, I would have liked to have been as brave about my daughter's injections but her doting Daddy would not have let me 'put her at risk'.

[Cinnamon]

Well, we have Chilli vaccinated.

This is mainly because we have to put him into kennels when we go away,& they will not take unvaccinated cats.

But even so I think I still would because I would feel so guilty if he did get one of the diseases & I could have prevented it,but didn't.

[Trish]

we do have ours vaccinated but only because we back onto railway lines with lots of animal traffic of many types and I just don't know what they'd face disease wise. I thinking of only doing it once or twcice over a life time when the next generation of cats somes to live with me as we don't do boosters for our kids every year and the cats must have a more robust immune system since they lick themselves clean (if you get my drift). As Cinnamon says though catteries won't take unvaccinated cats though so that is a consideration.

[Louise]

I would never put my cats into a cattery so it isn't an issue for me

 

Its all personal choice at the end of the day

[barnabydaisy]

thanks for your help.

we are still undecided but your imput has helped. I would never put them in catteries and they don't really have contact with other cats so the danger is less, but the guilt would be too much if they were to become ill.

thanks again

[Laura & CTB]

I regularly took my cats to the vet for their jabs even though it was a real trauma for them, then about three years ago the vet advised me that if they never had to go to a cattery and rarely ventured from the garden then it was probably a waste of my money.

[Cinnamon]

Yes, as Louise says it is all down to personal choice.

 

And believe me,of I had neighbours under 85 who could look after Chilli properly when we go away,I wouldn't put him in a cattery either

[barnabydaisy]

i think we have decided not to as ours get very traumatised by any visit to the vets as well, in fact barnaby always gives us a nice present on the way home in the car to say thankyou for taking me!!!! then they both have to sit in it untill we get home!!

Mim and Jason

[PurpleHen]

My last moggie who lived to 21 never had jabs Having said that she started life as a house cat. My new kitten will have jabs because I want her to have a passport.

 

Ooohhh - planning on taking her anywhere nice

[Louise]

With passports you can have it done later in life they don't have to be done from babies and they also can't travel until six months AFTER their rabies vaccination blood test comes back

 

I looked into it recently when trying to bring a cat in from Spain she was an adult and had lapsed vaccinations but it would still have been possible

[bellekatz]

I have all 6 of my cats vaccinated - always have done - I once lost a rescued cat to FLV and it was good job my others had been vaccinated or I would have lost them all. I would say that if they go outside at all, you never know which cats them may come across during the day, one bite, and that could be it. Four of my cats are indoor cats and even so, becasue I show them they have to be vaccinated. My others, i just wouldn't want to take the risk. Not only that, but an annual check up at the vets puts my mind at rest about their general health anyway.

Just my personal opinion.