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Hello everyone! I just found this forum. I'm happy I did.
Okay, So for the last year i've been taking care of about 20 "feral" cats. Since october I've had 4 feral cats move into my house. (They are the only cats living in my house, I have 2 dogs and a bird and ferrets and a bunch of other animals though haha.) Since December I've been getting the feral cats in my neighborhood spayed/neutered with the help of a low cost spay and neutering program. The cats in my house are fixed, also. But my question is tomorrow I have an appointment to get the 4 cats that are living in my house their shots. I'm wondering how necessary it is? I hate to sound cheap but I seriously don't have any money. I have 210 bucks to my name and all of that would go towards my cats shots. Do they really need their shots? They don't go outside anymore and they don't really have any contact with other cats. Sometimes I bring the cats from outside in, but only for one night, when they have an appointment to be fixed the following day...but even then they're not really around my indoor cats. So how necessary is it to get my cats their shots? My indoor cats have already been around the outside cats their whole life...so even if I did ebring them in..it's not like they are going to contract some kind of disease from cats they've been around their whole life, right? I don't know. I just really need to save money because it already cost me around 100 bucks a month to feed 20 cats, and then on top of toys and neutering and yada yada i'm trying to cut corners. UNLESS IT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE I REALLY LOVE MY CATS AND WANT THE BEST FOR THEM.
Thanks for reading this.
P.S. what can my cats have? Feline aids/leukemia? Do a lot of ferals have that? Tomorrow if I want to get my cats the leukemia/aids shots will the vet do a test to see if they already have it and how much does that typically cost?
Okay, So for the last year i've been taking care of about 20 "feral" cats. Since october I've had 4 feral cats move into my house. (They are the only cats living in my house, I have 2 dogs and a bird and ferrets and a bunch of other animals though haha.) Since December I've been getting the feral cats in my neighborhood spayed/neutered with the help of a low cost spay and neutering program. The cats in my house are fixed, also. But my question is tomorrow I have an appointment to get the 4 cats that are living in my house their shots. I'm wondering how necessary it is? I hate to sound cheap but I seriously don't have any money. I have 210 bucks to my name and all of that would go towards my cats shots. Do they really need their shots? They don't go outside anymore and they don't really have any contact with other cats. Sometimes I bring the cats from outside in, but only for one night, when they have an appointment to be fixed the following day...but even then they're not really around my indoor cats. So how necessary is it to get my cats their shots? My indoor cats have already been around the outside cats their whole life...so even if I did ebring them in..it's not like they are going to contract some kind of disease from cats they've been around their whole life, right? I don't know. I just really need to save money because it already cost me around 100 bucks a month to feed 20 cats, and then on top of toys and neutering and yada yada i'm trying to cut corners. UNLESS IT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE I REALLY LOVE MY CATS AND WANT THE BEST FOR THEM.
Thanks for reading this.
P.S. what can my cats have? Feline aids/leukemia? Do a lot of ferals have that? Tomorrow if I want to get my cats the leukemia/aids shots will the vet do a test to see if they already have it and how much does that typically cost?