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I've been reading on the site and elsewhere that feline distemper virus can live for up to three years in the house. I had a poor little 8-week old kitten in my spare bedroom (by itself, quarantined) for two days recently, that I had found outside. I knew it was sick and the second vet I took him to did the sad diagnosis of distemper. He was already near death, so I made the decision to have him euthanized.
Arriving home from the vet, I threw away all clothing, towels, blankets, bowls, litter box, and everything else it had touched. I wiped down everything in the room with lysol and/or pure bleach, and sprayed lysol all over the house. I also cleaned the tile floors with a bleach solution. Next I will steam-clean the carpet in the kitten's room and scrub any remaining spots where it pooped with kennel cleaner.
My two adult healthy cats of course had no direct contact with the baby, and I scrubbed like a surgeon after treating or feeding it - and they are both up to date with their distemper shots - I double checked with my vet.
IS THAT ENOUGH? Or is there something I'm missing. I can't take a chance that my other kitties will get sick, if you haven't seen this virus in action, you can't believe how the poor cat suffers. The treatments are equally grim - and then they still may not survive.
DO NOT FAIL TO GET THIS VACCINATION FOR YOUR CATS - and NEVER let it outside, regardless. This virus is out there, in the grass where ferals reside.
Arriving home from the vet, I threw away all clothing, towels, blankets, bowls, litter box, and everything else it had touched. I wiped down everything in the room with lysol and/or pure bleach, and sprayed lysol all over the house. I also cleaned the tile floors with a bleach solution. Next I will steam-clean the carpet in the kitten's room and scrub any remaining spots where it pooped with kennel cleaner.
My two adult healthy cats of course had no direct contact with the baby, and I scrubbed like a surgeon after treating or feeding it - and they are both up to date with their distemper shots - I double checked with my vet.
IS THAT ENOUGH? Or is there something I'm missing. I can't take a chance that my other kitties will get sick, if you haven't seen this virus in action, you can't believe how the poor cat suffers. The treatments are equally grim - and then they still may not survive.
DO NOT FAIL TO GET THIS VACCINATION FOR YOUR CATS - and NEVER let it outside, regardless. This virus is out there, in the grass where ferals reside.
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