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dave63 
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Posted: 25 Aug 2018 at 7:08pm |
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When My wife and I started dating she said "I come with A cat leave now if you have a problem with that" Well here we are 20 years later and that cat is gone but she has 10 cats give or take a few. Well couple weeks ago a stray showed up and of course she had to take it in. It had an injury so of course she had to nurse it. She put it in our downstairs bathroom and it started warming up to her after about a week. Monday the 13th I went in there to wash up and the little bugger wanted to play, when i reached down to pet it it bit me and my wife got bit 3 times that evening. Tuesday morning he had a stuffy nose and Tuesday evening was real sick. Wednesday morning he was dead. We got test results Thursday afternoon and headed right to the ER I got 6 shots, they put one right into the bite and I thought my finger was going to blow off, Ouch. They gave us antibiotics and by Sunday infection got worse not better. Sunday we got another shot and two different antibiotics. Got another shot Thursday and we have one more to go. Bottom line is we got complacent. I don't see my wife not taking in strays anytime in the future but I think we where protection.
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 25 Aug 2018 at 8:46pm |
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Rabies or just a bad infection? Either way it is NOT good. Cats are okay if they are barn cats spayed or neutered and up to date on rabies vaccination. I don't like to see any domestic animal tossed out to fend for itself, people that do that should spend a little time on the chain gang, but I am very cautious about taking in strays. Cousin had 53 cats and I told her I could take a box of .22's and take care of most of the problem but she threatened to do violent bodily harm to me if I did.
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Posted: 25 Aug 2018 at 8:56pm |
53 cats are not pets... more like a mental disease... Or in korea a ranch... 
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Posted: 25 Aug 2018 at 9:26pm |
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Cats poop and pee in a box that they paw around in and then jump on your table and counters, sorry, cats belong in the barn.
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Posted: 25 Aug 2018 at 10:54pm |
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What were the test results? Rabies is a virus so it would be shots in the stomach with a cocktail of antivirals. Antibiotics in the bite must be bacterial, most likely Bartonella or Pasteurella, but those are both natural oral bacteria in cats and not something that would kill it. My day job is med lab tech so I've seen these things quite a bit.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 1:40am |
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I hate needles! dang...I feel for ya! and like Hubert asked...what was it? we just have 2 indoor mousers here
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 5:51am |
 Bill_MN wrote:
What were the test results? Rabies is a virus so it would be shots in the stomach with a cocktail of antivirals. Antibiotics in the bite must be bacterial, most likely Bartonella or Pasteurella, but those are both natural oral bacteria in cats and not something that would kill it. My day job is med lab tech so I've seen these things quite a bit.
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It was positive for rabies, They don't do the stomach injections anymore. The rabies injections are subdural. All the shots were for rabies even the one in the wound. I don't know much about the medical science behind it but I was glad they didn't have to inject it in my stomach.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 6:01am |
Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:
Rabies or just a bad infection? Either way it is NOT good. Cats are okay if they are barn cats spayed or neutered and up to date on rabies vaccination. I don't like to see any domestic animal tossed out to fend for itself, people that do that should spend a little time on the chain gang, but I am very cautious about taking in strays. Cousin had 53 cats and I told her I could take a box of .22's and take care of most of the problem but she threatened to do violent bodily harm to me if I did. |
Their was a time when I would have used cats for target practice but I became very fond of this little crazy cat lady and I kinda learned to like the little critters. She comes with a lot of common sense [the crazy cat lady]. All of our cats have been spayed/ neutered and have their shots. They are mostly barn cats. She does find homes for kittens that show up here [someone dropped off a feed bag full of them a couple years ago] so I don't see us with many more then we have now but you never know. I do like sleeping with her so i'm not gunna tell her she can't have'em. Yes rabies AND a bad infection
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 6:05am |
shameless dude wrote:
I hate needles! dang...I feel for ya! and like Hubert asked...what was it? we just have 2 indoor mousers here |
Yes Rabies AND bad infection. They are outside cats but we do not have mice!! I call them our rodent control program.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 6:34am |
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I am an old Cat man! I have 3. One is over 20 years old and is a good friend. He is grumpy like me! The other 2 live under the porch and I feed them outside.When we were milking cows there were lots of cats and people would drop off cats and then distemper or some other virus would kill off most of them and then some female would show up and we would be back in business. I still have some feral cats that show up but I don't feed them and they disappear either the Great Horned Owl or Coyotes! Cats can be good friends some times better than a dog. I have been bit and scratched a lot over the years and have learned to look them over before handling a few have died from lead poisoning!
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 8:35am |
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We have feral cats. We took a class on TNR. Trap neuter and return. Got four taken care of and it included a rabies shot. $25 each. You can identify a fixed feral cat by the top of the left ear will be clipped off.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 9:53am |
John, it is 25 bucks here also. I got one of those critters living in the barn with a left clipped ear. Her shots are kept up. I also have one male (cat never causes a problem) named wizz. Cus he has wizzed on everything i own. I have him on film walking around the trap baited with cat food. He will not go in a trap or else he would take a little ride to the jewel donation facility. 
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 10:58am |
Hey Dave, can we now call ye Rabied Davey?
Now you got an excuse for when you get CATankerous...
You must like that little lady, but wasn't that carrying it a bit far, bot gettin bit and having to do the rabie routine???
All kidding aside, glad you guys are going to be all right after this ordeal. Wow, wouldn't want to wish that on to anybody...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 7:43pm |
I don't guess I am a cat man,,,but we have had cats in the garage since I built it . The count goes from 4 to bout 8 after one or two of the mom's litter out which is now. I don't feed em as they eat what ole Hungry leaves. Right now there two litters of 4 each plus two mommas and no tellin how many Daddys in there,,,, Rabies in Bad Chit but somehow I always thought it was mostly in the western USA,,,,,??
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 8:00pm |
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Rabies in Bad Chit but somehow I always thought it was mostly in the western USA,,,,,?? |
It has been in the southeastern USA for years. I remember a cow that belonged to one of my uncles had it when I was about 5 years old. He took care of it with one blast of #1 buckshot from his double barrel 16ga. Have dispatched quite a few raccoons, skunks, and a bob cat or two at the farm over the years that I am pretty sure had it. If it is nocturnal and out acting strange during daylight it gets a dose of lead. Hear quite a bit about rabid animals in the suburbs, and some two legged ones also. Johnny Freakout's family can't take care of it themselves, they have to call 911 for law enforcement, fire, DNR, and anyone else who will come out.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 8:11pm |
JC(WI) wrote:
Hey Dave, can we now call ye Rabied Davey?
Now you got an excuse for when you get CATankerous...
You must like that little lady, but wasn't that carrying it a bit far, bot gettin bit and having to do the rabie routine???
All kidding aside, glad you guys are going to be all right after this ordeal. Wow, wouldn't want to wish that on to anybody...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2018 at 8:19pm |
Wife had this thing with cats also - then the strays starting getting fed and was up to 23 of them outside . Well the one time she had 5 in the garage and i did a run down to the local shelter with them - hmm took two weeks for he to move back upstairs .. Here the last year she was alive I had to feed the cats outside every night - quite a few times I caught her outside in the winter checking up on my job of feeding them. Her out in her robe and on oxygen and below ZERO out - Had to ball her out over that as if she slipped or fell outside she was weak enough it would have caused a real problem . So somehow most of them seemed to die off about a few months after she passed , coyotes were real thick around here - had 2 female kittens and a old yellow tom around for about a year then they disappeared also .
Got a old female in the house that was grandsons when he lived here - he took it along when he moved then had to bring it back - so I have had that now for 3 years .
Got a yellow male now a little over a year old - he has a thing now with using the toilet to pee in so have to leave the lids up for him to use them - just wish he would do the rest of his business there also .
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Posted: 27 Aug 2018 at 5:06am |
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We used to get drop off cats at the barn, another few neighbors same but they suddenly slowed to almost nothing, maybe more are getting the local strays neutered just don't know. We also have coyotes, the strays do not last more than a few months at best before coming up missing and a eventual ball of fur found in a field or road ditch with no kitty attached.
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Posted: 27 Aug 2018 at 9:52am |
Since we live on the first road that is considered,," outside the city limits" we get more than our share of " just take him, her, or them out to the country" type of animals ,,,, Guess I got a soft spot for strays as I usually leave some feed for them if they hang around, but those usually move on as we no longer got kids for them to adopt each other,,,plus ole Hungry don't like any competition, I guess,,, They hear that big bruiser bark and they usually haul azz down the road,,,
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Posted: 28 Aug 2018 at 6:59pm |
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Anybody wanna guise how much rabies shots cost? $$$$$$$$$$$$$ OMG
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Posted: 28 Aug 2018 at 7:25pm |
Maybe need to sell some cats to pay for the shots? have to start a go fund me rabies account? They actually already got your bill figured out? Bet it wasn't cheap.
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