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I don’t know if this is the right place in the forum to post this but I have a question.
So two months ago we had a nursing mom and 4 kittens, 9 weeks old. 1 passed away, and then two more started declining in health. They were diagnosed with distemper and thankfully one survived after staying at the ER for 3 days in fluids and constantly being checked on.
The vet at the ER told us we cannot bring any unvaccinated cats or kittens into the house for up to a year because it’ll still be in the house.
We have an family member’s house we TNR at. My question is, if we happen to catch any kittens this year, if we first take them to get spayed/neutered (we go to the SPCA near us and they do it for cheap) and also have them give them a distemper vaccine along with their rabies, would it be safe to bring them into the house or not? All of our cats have their vaccines so thankfully no one else got it, just the kittens, and to this day we have no idea how they got distemper to begin with (the mom tested negative and it was all of a sudden).
So two months ago we had a nursing mom and 4 kittens, 9 weeks old. 1 passed away, and then two more started declining in health. They were diagnosed with distemper and thankfully one survived after staying at the ER for 3 days in fluids and constantly being checked on.
The vet at the ER told us we cannot bring any unvaccinated cats or kittens into the house for up to a year because it’ll still be in the house.
We have an family member’s house we TNR at. My question is, if we happen to catch any kittens this year, if we first take them to get spayed/neutered (we go to the SPCA near us and they do it for cheap) and also have them give them a distemper vaccine along with their rabies, would it be safe to bring them into the house or not? All of our cats have their vaccines so thankfully no one else got it, just the kittens, and to this day we have no idea how they got distemper to begin with (the mom tested negative and it was all of a sudden).