Update 2/7 Before and After pics! - Another stray, but such a cutie!

[Freebie]

Did you put up any found cat fliers? Since she is spayed and such, maybe she got lost somehow. (or she could have been dropped of too) But I would be inclined to put up fliers or an add in the paper just to be sure.

 

[patandchickens]

THere are two different sorts of quarantines.

One is to determine whether an animal that bit you was likely to have been able to give YOU rabies. An animal w/rabies infection only contagious for a week or so before it dies (contagiousness beings approx the same time as symptoms do). Thus, if the animal remains healthy-lookin' for ten days, it is pretty much 100% guaranteed that it did not have the CONTAGIOUS stage of rabies when it bit you.

However, it can take months and months before a rabies-infected animal starts to show symptoms and become contagious. Six months is a sort of reasonable ball-park figure that many jurisdictions use for holding animals to determine whetyer they may be INFECTED WITH rabies but just not showin' it yet. (Really paranoid jurisdictions, such as island nations that are rabies-free, sometimes require a 1 *year* quarantine to prove the animal isn't carrying rabies!).

The second of these things is what the o.p.'s vet was talking about. And indeed, because contagiousness can sometimes precede symptoms by a day or so, and because earlly rabies symptoms can easily be missed (chalked up to some more common problem), it seems to me like a sensible attitude when there are young children in the house. (Children are more vulnerable to rabies, for various reasons but small body size plays a considerable part in it).

Hope you can find someone to take it for you for the 6 months, good luck!,

Pat

 

[Bec]

Here in Delaware, if the animal has no rabies vaccine, the quarantine is 6 months and if the animal has it's rabies vaccine, the quarantine is 10 days. We just went through this about a month ago with a neighbors dog that attacked another neighbors dog.

 

[ILoveJoe]

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You should run a Found ad in the newspaper, they are usually free. She may be someone's long lost and well loved and sorely missed pet. Most folks don't invest in spaying unless they intend to keep the cat. I would love to stumble across a Found ad in my newspaper with my two missing spayed females on it:

FOUND:

 

[CritterHill]

Ok, more good news! One of my single, petless friends has agreed to watch her for 6 months! Yay!

And yes, I will post found ads, but considering the awful state of this beast and the fact that we get animals dumped out here all the time, I really doubt this is someone's beloved animal.

 

[Fowl-Language]

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[hinkjc]

Good luck with your stray. It sounds like what I am going through with my new kitty, Luna. She is just a baby though and something had her by the head with wounds going around her entire neck. She is under the TX rabies protocol (yes, in PA...lol) which requires a 6 month quarantine and a series of 3 rabies shots over a short period of time. She gets her last shot soon and has been with us about a month so far. You can read about her here..
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=74483

So far, so good and she is sweet as pie. She does not get to interact with any animals and rarely gets to see us, but I try to spend time with her every day to keep her tame. She is a love-button, full of purrs and always happy to see us. I can't wait to snuggle her like I want to. I'll be thinking of your kitty too. :aww

Jody

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Around here a fox ran into a ladies house and attacked her cat. She fought the fox off with a broom. Then she took the cat to the vet, the vet said that since she didnt have any proof of a prior rabies vaccine that she would have to keep the cat in quarantine for 6 months. The next day the fox was back banging himself against her house.

If it is a domestic animal that bites another domestic animal, and yours has rabies shot, then it is 10 days.

But if it is a wild animal that bites a domestic animal, wether it has the rabies shot or not, it is 6 month quarantine.


Good Luck. She is very cute, and i'm glad that you took her in.

 

[CritterHill]

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What a sweet kitten! Good luck with her!

 

[CritterHill]

Well, she is at my friend's place as of last night *sniff* Miss the little thing already...

Now she is talking about keeping her! If I wasn't already maxed out on pets, I would have put up a bigger fight about that!

I am sure there will be more strays though since we get several a year here.

The nice part is that my friend is an amateur photographer who promised to do a photo diary of her as she heals and fattens up. I think that is a neat project!