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Hello.
One of my inside cats, Bo, has a bad habit of getting on my blind side and sneaking out when I open the door. While we are in town limits, it is rural, and there are wooded areas, etc close by. At night we are visited by raccoons and skunks and stray kitties [some of which I have helped find a home for]. I enjoy these animals.
But late last night I heard a really loud panting and grunting and like something was scraping against the side of the building. It seemed like it was coming from a very large animal, but we don't get bears and where I am there are lots of close together and attached houses. It wasn't a deer. Maybe a large dog, but why all the angry grunting and panting. I worried it might be rabid. When I looked out it had gone.
This morning the cat snuck out [he is hard to deal with]. I have two. He went running all thru the neighborhood. Came back in a little while and I put him in the storage room, crowded but the only spare room. I was worried when I heard him meowing that he might have had an interaction tho he has no wounds or scratches I can see. [Because I had a really bad experience with earlier pets getting ill from the multishots, I haven't had my cats vaccinated in years.] So I don't want him in their mutual room, or common areas . I am afraid if he is infected, it could infect my other, which I raised from a kitten. They are brothers, and I took this one in
when someone in the area was harming cats, years ago. Both were rescues, as are all my previous furbeings.
I want to know if rabies can be contracted by sharing water in their water dish, or licking. Could Bo have picked the rabies virus up from droplets from the rabid animal? I know it is contracted by bites, but have heard there can be other ways. I am so stressed by this.
shepherdess
One of my inside cats, Bo, has a bad habit of getting on my blind side and sneaking out when I open the door. While we are in town limits, it is rural, and there are wooded areas, etc close by. At night we are visited by raccoons and skunks and stray kitties [some of which I have helped find a home for]. I enjoy these animals.
But late last night I heard a really loud panting and grunting and like something was scraping against the side of the building. It seemed like it was coming from a very large animal, but we don't get bears and where I am there are lots of close together and attached houses. It wasn't a deer. Maybe a large dog, but why all the angry grunting and panting. I worried it might be rabid. When I looked out it had gone.
This morning the cat snuck out [he is hard to deal with]. I have two. He went running all thru the neighborhood. Came back in a little while and I put him in the storage room, crowded but the only spare room. I was worried when I heard him meowing that he might have had an interaction tho he has no wounds or scratches I can see. [Because I had a really bad experience with earlier pets getting ill from the multishots, I haven't had my cats vaccinated in years.] So I don't want him in their mutual room, or common areas . I am afraid if he is infected, it could infect my other, which I raised from a kitten. They are brothers, and I took this one in
when someone in the area was harming cats, years ago. Both were rescues, as are all my previous furbeings.
I want to know if rabies can be contracted by sharing water in their water dish, or licking. Could Bo have picked the rabies virus up from droplets from the rabid animal? I know it is contracted by bites, but have heard there can be other ways. I am so stressed by this.
shepherdess
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