Vaccination needed or not? The kitten needs to be protected

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

So you got a kitten. Bowls for food, bedding, a toilet with a filler and toys are bought. Now it's time to take care of your pet's he alth. Now he is he althy - and in the future? Even if you decide that the animal will never leave your apartment, this does not mean at all that you yourself will not bring dangerous viruses on your shoes from the street. Do kittens need vaccinations, what they are, and in what sequence animals are vaccinated - read in this article.

A newborn baby is protected by the mother's immunity. But after 8 weeks, this barrier disappears. Then the small animal remains defenseless in the face of many dangerous diseases. Some of them (distemper, panleukopenia) develop so rapidly that the owners simply do not have time to save their pet. Therefore, the first vaccination of a kitten is carried out after it reachestwo months old. But before that, worms are removed from the animal with a special anthelmintic agent, which is bought only in a veterinary pharmacy. It is given on an empty stomach, two hours before a meal. After 10 days, the procedure is repeated. If the baby’s body is weakened (for example, you picked up a stray kitten suffering from malnutrition or illness), you first need to treat it. The animal must be completely he althy before vaccination, otherwise immunity will not develop. Now let's talk about how the vaccination is carried out.

An eight-week-old kitten is vaccinated in two rounds. Moreover, the second dose is injected 25 days after the first. Then there is the rabies vaccination. Thus, the animal is considered protected from calicivirus, panleukopenia, chlamydia, herpesvirus and other diseases throughout the year. Further, the pet must be subjected to this procedure every year. Together with the first vaccination at the veterinary clinic, you will be given an international animal passport, which will indicate the date and name of the vaccine. The document is also required if you decide to transport your pet by plane or train (on vacation or to exhibitions).

If you bought a purebred animal from a nursery, then most likely it has already been vaccinated. The kitten, however, needs to be checked. Find out everything in detail, and also make sure that, along with the pedigree, you are provided with clear information about what exactly he was already given and pricked, and when exactly. If the drug was transferred to animals without complications, that ismeaning to use it in the future.

Some hosts think that this is a very dangerous thing - vaccination. A kitten, they say, can thus be deprived of immunity. Some even say that there is a danger of just inoculating the disease against which the pet is vaccinated.

It's not. On the first day after the injection, the animal may be sleepy and lethargic - this is a normal process, there is no cause for concern. But if this condition continues, contact your veterinarian immediately. But even an expired vaccine or a latent disease present in the body at the time of the procedure cannot “infect” a kitten with an infection. Now about how to proceed.

An older pet needs a vaccine too. A kitten that has reached six months of age is also vaccinated. The immunity of such teenagers is already strong enough to carry out the procedure once, and not in two doses, like for babies. They, as well as adult animals, are immediately injected with a remedy for a whole “bouquet” of dangerous diseases: feline leukemia, infectious peritonitis, panleukopenia, viral rhinotracheitis and others. In veterinary clinics, you will be offered a choice of various vaccine preparations, both domestic and imported. All of them serve as reliable protection, however, foreign ones (Intervet, Merial, Fort Dodge) are easier to tolerate by animals. In addition to standard vaccinations, a special vaccine against ringworm has also been developed.