What Vaccines Should You Give Your Cat?

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I wrote a post a little bit ago about each dog vaccine and why you should give them to your dog. Now, as I promised, I will tell you guys about cat vaccines. 

For cats there are 4 vaccines that are typically recommended by all veterinarians and are what we call core vaccines. These are given to cats typically when they are young so that they can have the correct antibodies they need to fight off diseases throughout their lives. There are five other vaccines that are for different situations like if a cat lives inside or outside and for each one I will tell you why you might want to consider it. 

Let’s start with the core vaccines:

Vaccine	How it is transmitted	Illness without the vaccine	Treatment
Panleukopenia	Is spread through contact with contaminated feces	Causes vomiting and diarrhea	Treatment consists of a lot of medications and fluids inserted through the veins. Most often picked up by kittens but older cats survive better
Rhinotracheitis	Transmitted through contact with contaminated snot from an infected cat	Causes eye infections and sneezing and coughing	There really isn’t a treatment for it but a secondary infection can occur but can be helped with antibiotics. Kittens can often die from this disease
Calicivirus	Same as Rhinothracheitis	——–	———
Rabies	Can be transmitted by a bite from an infected animal of any type	Creates cats to have nervous signs	There is no treatment

The next five are more important if you have cats that are going to be going outside on occasion. 

Vaccine	How it is transmitted	Illness without the vaccine	Treatment
Chlamydia	Snot	Causes cat to sneeze and cough a lot and have awful eye infections	This is not usually fatal but it’s not fun. The symptoms can be tamed with antibiotic eye drops and the occasional oral antibiotics
Feline Leukemia	Transferred through bites and grooming of cats	Causes them to lose some immunity and triggers tumors to form	There is no treatment
Feline Infectious Peritonitis	Scientists do not currently know how it is transferred	Causes high fevers and fluid to build up in the chest and abdomen	There is no treatment
Feline Bordetella	Snot	Causes excessive coughing and sneezing	Antibiotics can help but do not work perfectly
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus	Passed between cats through bites or scratches	Causes the cat to lose immunity	There is no treatment

As always I am not a professional vet and I got all of my information from a class about becoming a vet assistant on Ed2Go.com. Before giving anything to your cat make sure you talk to a vet that you trust but this is a good base on each vaccine. 

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