[Katherine]

Hello, I'm hoping someone with more expertise can help me sort through this situation. A month ago, a 4month or so kitten wandered into our yard. It had bite marks on it and was starving. Its behavior was ok so though I didn't allow the children to handle it and handled it with gloves myself, but I cleaned its wounds and fed it. The following day I took it for a vet exam, a rabies vax and a worming since it was very affectionate and the kids wanted to be let out of the house. The vet did not seem bothered by the infected bite, just said she had been in a cat fight. There is a lot of rabies in the area in raccoons, foxes, etc.

This was about 6 weeks ago, and the cat is docile and affectionate with humans but will attack dogs if provoked ( chased or barked at) and cats without provocation. From the beginning, it had some kind of severe nasal infection with large amounts of mucous; I treated it with pet amoxicillin as did the vet when she was spayed. The copious green mucous has cleared to some extent but there is still a lot of nasal congestion; I suspect the feline herpes and have been giving her acyclovir recently on my own with no obvious helpful effect so far.

Another thing that may or may not be relevant is that our old dog, who was dying of cancer, did get into it with the cat and died within two weeks, not with any symptoms of furious rabies but still I'd thought I'd mention it.

So, here it is in a nutshell:
Cat still has obvious infection in her head.
Cat acts normally with people, very docile.
Cat is aggressive with animals
She was rabies vaxxed shortly AFTER being bitten by an unknown animal.
This cat is handled by numerous neighborhood children because of her personality; she seeks them out.

I am particulary worried since a stray kitten -- not near to the area where our cat was found but in the state -- was found to be rabid. The information that the story provided gave me a lot of worries that our cat, too, might possibly be rabid.

Here's the question: Since rabies can take 1 to 3 months to show symptoms, is it possible she was rabid -- or is rabid -- and the vax prevents or slows symptoms? Could I, my children, the neighborhood children and my new puppy be exposing ourselves to rabies? No human has been bitten by the cat so testing us probably won't help.

Thanks for any information you might be able to provide.

[Daveyo]

Hi

I am Daveyo, and sorry for not responding sooner as I had a lot of things to do this past week. What bothers me why not the VET TEST for possible Rabies infection????? Granted it takes 1-3 months for the animal to show the sympthoms, in any rate it it too late. As you were saying it was a stray cat which means it was not previously vaccinated for Rabies. Once Rabies gets inside the Cat its all over, and the cat has a death sentence. If the Cat had a vaccination of Rabies prior to the fights it still takes 2 weeks for it to take effect for protection. At that point if it catches Rabies there is a chance to save the CAT because it had a prior vaccination.

I would take that cat in now and have it checked and tested for Rabies. By now it will be showing up from the test but not yet showing its nasty signs.

Secondly again this VET is bad. Never vaccinate an animal WHILE SICK. It does no good and the sickness nullifies the vaccine rendering it a waste of time and money. If that VET doesn't like what I just said here, he is free to speak to me.

What the cat has is called Feline Distemper. It can be treated and cured in 24 hours. If you do not treat this CAT it will die from this disease. You have already described some of the symptoms of this disease. Feel free to go to my site at caninedistempercure dot com and register yourself and I can be of assistance and save this CAT for you provided your serious enough to consider hanging on to the cat and gamble if it has Rabies or not.

Rabies on the CAT is 50-50 can go either way and the Rabies test will tell you. If negative, then you can relax and then save the cat from Feline Distemper. It is a two step process. First the injection has to be done to take care of the body, and secondly it will need a CSF tap injection to stop it in the Central Nervous System. Once done then the Cat is immuned for life against Distemper. The only real expense is the cost for the CSF tap, the body hardly any charge there. You can confirm Feline Distemper which the test can be done at the VETS office and find out within 30 minutes. The test is 99% accurate.

Another note for you.

All Cats are susceptible to FIPV. You have to be very alert to spot it right in the beginning. If it has the dry version it can be cured completely. If it is the Wet version you need Quinine for the rest of its life otherwise the cat will definitely die from this disease in short order. So again if your lucky pray it is the Dry version. Takes only 21 pills to get rid of it and your done. If you ask me what the odds are of the Cat having it at some point during its lifespan 80%.

I am one of the experts on Distemper, and Dr. Sears who is the person who discovered the cure against this Disease body wise has over 700 on record of authentic cures. I am the one who finally closed the loophole to completely cure this disease in the CNS.

Ok so now the rest is up to you, you have some tough choices to make here. If the cat somes clean on Rabies, you will have to treat it for Feline Distemper ASAP. The sooner the better to minimize the potential damage caused by Distemper. It is even more nastier than Rabies. The good news is it will be immuned for life and cures in 24 hours.

Oh by the way, I hope your kids are vaccinated for measles. If not children will catch the measles, and it is not a funny issue either. Measles can kill and also cause Multiple Sclerosis later on during the mid life age. If you not believe me look up Multiple Sclerosis. Same disease being Measles. Anyway the good news is if any children get this disease it can be treated and cured as well as I have been dealing with the experts of MS myself and trying to get it approved by the FDA.

i do not know where your located, hopefully your in USA>

Do write back if you wish either at my site or here.

good luck

Daveyo