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From: Kathy
Date: 2001-12-20 09:19:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Distemper shot at same time as Rabies shot?

Hi!
I have a question about getting my Ferret the Distemper shot at the same
time as the Rabies shot. I think it was this list that I read in a post
that said NOT to get the Distemper shot and the Rabies shot at the same vet
visit? Did I read that right?
I took my little 3 month old sable sprite ferret "Willow" for her first vet
visit after getting her a couple of weeks ago. She had already had her 1st
Distemper shot at the breeders before she went to the Pet Store where I
bought her, so I took her for her first of two more Distemper boosters she
will get. I called my Vets office and asked which vet there ( because there
are several vets at this vets office!) knows how to treat, and care for
Ferrets? Well Dr.Martin was recommended to me, and I was told that she was
the vet I needed to see "Willow". Anyways, Dr. Martin gave "Willow" a
little check up, and said all looked well, and then proceeded to give her
the Distemper Shot, and I noticed that she also had another shot sitting
there that she planned on giving "Willow"! I said, "What is that other shot
there Dr. Martin"? She told me, "it's a Rabies shot". I told her that I
have been doing a lot of research on Ferrets myself in magazines, books, and
on the Internet, and that I had also joined a couple of "Ferret List Bots".
I told her that I was pretty sure that someone in the list bot said NOT to
give a Ferret a Distemper Shot AND a Rabies shot at the SAME TIME, because
it can have bad results! She said, "Oh really?" "I have not heard that,
but let me check"! So she went and got a medical book on Ferrets, and
other small animals, and looked it up. It did not say anything about a
negative reaction with giving both shots at the same time, but Dr. Martin
said, "Would you feel better if I waited on the Rabies a couple of weeks"?
"If you would Kathy, then we can do that no problem"!
Wow, I thought that was pretty neat that here this vet was going to listen
to me!
Sometimes I have found that vets get offended if you speak up, and "try to
tell them how to do their jobs", so to speak! At least that has been my
experience! Anyways, because of what I read, I think on THIS list bot I
choose NOT to have "Willow" given BOTH vaccines at once! We have an
appointment to go back the first week in January to get "Willow's" Rabies
shot, and then will go back in a week or so after that and get her finial
Distemper shot! : 0 ) Just wanted to share, and make SURE that what I had
told the vet was indeed what I had heard in this E-group! Am I right?
Thanks!
Kathy Tyler
Double Royale T Quarter Horses
White Cloud, MI.
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