From:
"kazpat1@juno.com"
Date: 2005-05-14 17:40:20 UTC
Subject: Along the Vacc question threads
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <20050514.104059.16051.7828@webmail28.lax.untd.com>
The reason to separate the vaccines is so that if a ferret does react you will know which vaccine the ferret was reacting to. You won't know that if they were both given at the same visit.
Ferrets, along with dogs and cats, if they are vaccinated for rabies properly, and do bite someone they can be held for 10 days quarantine to observe for the disease instead of being put down and tested. NOt all places will realize thos, so you can educate them and that vet.
"The new "1998 Compendium of Animal Rabies Control" for the first time recommends that ferrets involved in bite cases be treated exactly like dogs or cats. That is, they should be subject to a 10-day quarantine to observe for signs of rabies - not to the "kill and test" procedure which in the last 20 years has taken thousands of ferret lives unnecessarily."
I don't know that this is a law or anything, just recommendations- but it does give the ferret owner something to fight with if the vet or individual does want to put the ferret down.
Patty
-- "At the symposium in St. Louis the panel vet's said to never administer both rabies &
distemper at the same visit. Why is that?
also quick to state that even with the rabies vaccine & certificate as proof, if the
ferret does bite a "pissy" person (pissy = will cause problems with authorities about
being bitten) that the shot is not "recognized" as a preventative and the person bit
could still press the issue to have the ferret put down & the test done. PLEASE SAY
THAT AIN'T SO!!!
Now I'm a very worried shelter mom!
Debbie