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Hi! I have just adopted a feral kitten from the local animal shelter and I have a couple of questions for anyone who can help.
We filled out our little guy's adoption papers on the 20th and the shelter insisted we had to pay $70 to have all his preadoption stuff done prior to bringing him home. So... we paid our $ and waited on their call. We brought him home two days later and were shocked to see they had ear-tipped him... as if he was going to be a TNR colony cat!!! I have NO idea what gave them that impression. My husband told the lady taking our paperwork that we were bringing him home to live with our 2 inside cats where he would be loved... I was pretty heartbroken for him, but I suppose there are worse things than losing part of an ear...
Anyway, we suddenly realized that if they ear-tipped him, the rest of what they were supposed to do might not have been done either. We checked his paperwork and checked with the shelter and we were right! They didn't run him thru the usual pre-adoption treatments either. Meaning he wasn't FeLV/FIV tested, he wasn't treated for fleas, he wasn't wormed, he wasn't microchipped. All of these were things we paid for... (side note: the best the shelter will do for us at this point is have their vet do these things as soon as we can get him back in a carrier and over there - he is still pretty wild, so that's not happening fast... Idiots!) Thank heaven we didn't already put one of our other cats in with him to make friends.
My question is this... the girl at the shelter tried to tell me he wasn't rabies vaccinated either, but his paperwork shows he was (we have the metal tag and everything). We had no clue that they shouldn't be rabies vaccinated til they are 4 months old.
I really think this little guy is closer to 3 months old. What should I look for as far as problem signs if he really was vaccinated too soon? How concerned should I be?
We filled out our little guy's adoption papers on the 20th and the shelter insisted we had to pay $70 to have all his preadoption stuff done prior to bringing him home. So... we paid our $ and waited on their call. We brought him home two days later and were shocked to see they had ear-tipped him... as if he was going to be a TNR colony cat!!! I have NO idea what gave them that impression. My husband told the lady taking our paperwork that we were bringing him home to live with our 2 inside cats where he would be loved... I was pretty heartbroken for him, but I suppose there are worse things than losing part of an ear...
Anyway, we suddenly realized that if they ear-tipped him, the rest of what they were supposed to do might not have been done either. We checked his paperwork and checked with the shelter and we were right! They didn't run him thru the usual pre-adoption treatments either. Meaning he wasn't FeLV/FIV tested, he wasn't treated for fleas, he wasn't wormed, he wasn't microchipped. All of these were things we paid for... (side note: the best the shelter will do for us at this point is have their vet do these things as soon as we can get him back in a carrier and over there - he is still pretty wild, so that's not happening fast... Idiots!) Thank heaven we didn't already put one of our other cats in with him to make friends.
My question is this... the girl at the shelter tried to tell me he wasn't rabies vaccinated either, but his paperwork shows he was (we have the metal tag and everything). We had no clue that they shouldn't be rabies vaccinated til they are 4 months old.
I really think this little guy is closer to 3 months old. What should I look for as far as problem signs if he really was vaccinated too soon? How concerned should I be?