With a busy household 3 kids and hubby and my 4 fur babies.I completely for got to have my 4 cats vacinated for Distemper! I knew my rabies where fine untill 2006 and thought the distemper was good also for 3 years. How could I be so stupid. having owned cats for years I should of remembered distemper shots are yearly. So they all were not up to date on the distemper.
8 weeks ago I added a new Tortie Siamese to my family of 3 Siamese and 1 Persian. Took new kitty in the day after I got her for a check up and kitten shots.She appeared fine and healthy. About a week before her 2nd set of shots where due she started sneezing just abit and by the time she was due for her 2nd shots she had a tiny eye discharge also. The Vet said it was just a little upper respitory infection.And put her on 7 day course of antibiotics . she improved. Then my Big 16 pound Siamese started getting a eye infection off to the vets with him.Saw a little scratch which we assumed was from the new kitten Lily as she played with him alot.And started him on eye ointment for the infection. This was on weds. Late friday he started getting the other eye looking like it also had a discharge so I though well maybe he wiped that eye with his paw and got some bacteria in it from the infected eye is I started putting the ointment in that eye also.
He also just seemed not himself sleeping and not being his usual Vocal with my people all the time cat. Well I thought of course hes hiding out under the bed two sore eyes and someone always putting goop in them. Saturday vets closed of course. Jade my female Siamese is sneezing. Yowser the big guy still not feeling good. And new kitty sneezing again!
Sunday all 3 seemd under the weather. Yowser felt hot. I was up all Sunday Night worrying. Couldn't wait till morning and Vets to open. Off to the vets as soon as they opened.
Saw a different vet this time. More experienced he knew right off what was wrong. He said the new kitten must of had distemper. As soon as he said that my heart sunk. He checked and my other cats should of had their distemper shots a year ago!! So he said all 3 had distemper and probably the other two would soon have it. They were not showing any signs of it. And so far they still seem ok.( These two I had to go home and bring in for their distemper shot. As he hoped this would help them not get it.)
Then he went on to say that they had the least seriouse kind and almost always curable ( Chalmydiosis) They all got a shot of antibiotics.And the two older a shot for the fever.Yowsers fever was 106! And then Antibiotics to be given at home twice a day for 10 days.Plus a med for a few days for the fever. Eye ointment that I had to go pick up at the drugstore as they need a special type for this that is made for humans. Total vet bill so far $ 698.00.
And I am so worried. They do seem better but still eyes yucky less sneezing and fever seems to be gone. He did say they may need more antibiotics after this course is taken . They go back to be rechecked next Monday. They can't have there distemper shots untill they are well of course.
I hope and pray my cats will be ok. I'm still so worried. They all hate the eye ointment 4x a day and the liquid antibiotics 2x a day. They hate me now!
Here she comes with that yuck )
The moral of this long story is please be up to date on all shots. I will never ever forget again!
8 weeks ago I added a new Tortie Siamese to my family of 3 Siamese and 1 Persian. Took new kitty in the day after I got her for a check up and kitten shots.She appeared fine and healthy. About a week before her 2nd set of shots where due she started sneezing just abit and by the time she was due for her 2nd shots she had a tiny eye discharge also. The Vet said it was just a little upper respitory infection.And put her on 7 day course of antibiotics . she improved. Then my Big 16 pound Siamese started getting a eye infection off to the vets with him.Saw a little scratch which we assumed was from the new kitten Lily as she played with him alot.And started him on eye ointment for the infection. This was on weds. Late friday he started getting the other eye looking like it also had a discharge so I though well maybe he wiped that eye with his paw and got some bacteria in it from the infected eye is I started putting the ointment in that eye also.
He also just seemed not himself sleeping and not being his usual Vocal with my people all the time cat. Well I thought of course hes hiding out under the bed two sore eyes and someone always putting goop in them. Saturday vets closed of course. Jade my female Siamese is sneezing. Yowser the big guy still not feeling good. And new kitty sneezing again!
Sunday all 3 seemd under the weather. Yowser felt hot. I was up all Sunday Night worrying. Couldn't wait till morning and Vets to open. Off to the vets as soon as they opened.
Saw a different vet this time. More experienced he knew right off what was wrong. He said the new kitten must of had distemper. As soon as he said that my heart sunk. He checked and my other cats should of had their distemper shots a year ago!! So he said all 3 had distemper and probably the other two would soon have it. They were not showing any signs of it. And so far they still seem ok.( These two I had to go home and bring in for their distemper shot. As he hoped this would help them not get it.)
Then he went on to say that they had the least seriouse kind and almost always curable ( Chalmydiosis) They all got a shot of antibiotics.And the two older a shot for the fever.Yowsers fever was 106! And then Antibiotics to be given at home twice a day for 10 days.Plus a med for a few days for the fever. Eye ointment that I had to go pick up at the drugstore as they need a special type for this that is made for humans. Total vet bill so far $ 698.00.
And I am so worried. They do seem better but still eyes yucky less sneezing and fever seems to be gone. He did say they may need more antibiotics after this course is taken . They go back to be rechecked next Monday. They can't have there distemper shots untill they are well of course.
I hope and pray my cats will be ok. I'm still so worried. They all hate the eye ointment 4x a day and the liquid antibiotics 2x a day. They hate me now!
The moral of this long story is please be up to date on all shots. I will never ever forget again!