Need lots of good vibes for Tim at Vets

[sheilarose]

Any news? How's Tim today? 

[Guest]

 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Oh sorry, hope it goes well tomorrow 

[Tiggy's Mum]

How did it go?

It's not til tomorrow Gill 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

How did it go?

[Tiggy's Mum]

In view of the long journey I would stay at the vets until they close with Tim, as I believe the reactions happen quite quickly and then they can treat him immediately.

I would also not go for the FeLV part as it helps reduce the risk.

Loads of good vibes and hope it goes OK 

Agree on both points, very good idea to stay there for a bit afterwards.

Hope everything goes OK for him 

[Liz]

That the reason we do it in stages along with the the antihistamine tablets and have him stay as a day patient saves us staying with him and being under the vets feet and them being in the best place for them should an adverse reaction occur and we inject an awful lot of cats every month and apart from being sleepy and grounding the kids for 24 hours have had no adverse reactions and we also trust our vets 110% as they are linked in with Glasgow vets school so have all the latest technology and the best research facilities

Caspurr will be a new case for them to study and drool over he is an 8kg ragdoll

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

In view of the long journey I would stay at the vets until they close with Tim, as I believe the reactions happen quite quickly and then they can treat him immediately.

I would also not go for the FeLV part as it helps reduce the risk.

Loads of good vibes and hope it goes OK 

[Rosella moggy]

Sending many    that all goes well for young Tim

[Janeyk]

What a worry  isn't there a different make of vaccine they can give? or as others say avoid the one that may have caused the reaction, discuss with your vet.

All my cats have reacted badly to vaccines and I've rung the vets to check but they always been ok after 24 hours and not as bad as that just quiet and lethargic.

I hope that all goes really well this time 

[Gillian Harvey]

Ambi, what jabs did Tim have? did it include FeLV? if so, and he is confined to cat run then he doesn't need the FelV booster and thats the part that most often causes bad reactions. He really only needs cat flu + enteritis (panleu). 

[Liz]

Edd our vet looked in to the dead vaccines and its no longer available hence the long drawn out process we are having done with Caspurr

[madamcat (Edd)]

Sending good vibes for Tim 

In view of the bad reaction last year, perhaps have a chat with your vet as to other ways Tim can be vaccinated safely as Liz suggested.

Also I know that some slaves of FIV+ cats have their cats innoculated with dead or inactivated vaccines. Pfizer used to produce inactivated version in various combinations of Flu/Enterititis Chlamydia and FelV. They are listed on Noah's compendium:

http://www.noahcompendium.co.uk/Pfizer_Limited/Fevaxyn_Pentofel/-49840.html
http://www.noahcompendium.co.uk/Pfizer_Limited/Fevaxyn_iCHPChlam/-45103.html
http://www.noahcompendium.co.uk/Pfizer_Limited/Fevaxyn_iCHP/-51471.html

Your vet would know whether these are still available and of any benefit to a cat that reacts to vaccines. 

[Liz]

We are sending lots of good thoughts form Tim

On a side note we are going through the same thing with Caspurr as he nearly died in his previous home due to this so we are now on 3 Piriton a day and he will then get one part of the injection and spend the whole day in the vets being monitored and continue this routine for nearly 2 months till he has had the full set may be ask your vets about doing it this way

[Ambi]

Wee bit of history. Last year when Tim got his initial Vaccs he had a very bad reaction, he went into anaphylatic shock. It was horrific, have never seen an animal in such pain or scream like he did. We have a 40 min journey each way to vets, when we got home & lifted him out of his carrier, he couldn't move & when coaxed, all he could do was crawl. Vet reception said it was "just a reaction which would wear off & leave it until the next day to see if he improved". Well in all my plentiful years of animal care I had never seen a reaction like that!  Informed them in no uncertain terms we were coming straight back!!  Normally Tim yells from he gets into the car till we get home but he was so quiet, we thought our kitten was dead. Once back at the vets they took him immediately

So..... you will see why his booster this year fills us with apprehension. Although initially housecats they have access to the outdoors with a large cat run so do need their vacc as there are a lot of cats about here

Tomorrow Tim is booked for his booster so please everyone send us good vibes that all will
be well. Baby Mindy is also going for her second initial vaccination so i will be well loaded down with cat carriers