West Mount Vets
Cat Vaccination
We recommend your cat is vaccinated.
Routine vaccination will protect against several cat diseases for which there are no reliable or effective treatments. The injections are barely noticed by most of our patients.
These are the diseases against which the vaccines provide protection:
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Feline parvo-virus (infectious enteritis / panleucopaenia). This is a highly contagious infection causing severe, often fatal, gastroenteritis with vomiting and severe diarrhoea.
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Feline rhino-tracheitis. The most common cause of cat 'flu, causing respiratory problems, with sinusitis, conjunctivitis, fever and sometimes pneumonia. It is common in Calderdale.
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Feline calici-virus. Another form of 'flu, which can also cause painful ulceration inside the mouth and throat and is more likely to lead to pneumonia. Cat 'flu is usually not fatal but most affected cats never completely recover.
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Feline luekaemia virus. A dangerous and surprisingly common disease throughout Calderdale. This infection affects cats. The majority of cases we see are in animals of up to six years old but some cancers in older cats are known to be triggered by contact with the virus at an earlier age. It has a long incubation period (sometimes as much as two years), but when symptoms appear it is almost always fatal. Symptoms can be very varied: anaemia, a fever, progressive weight loss, chronic digestive problems and respiratory infections can all be caused by this virus.
