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I've been working with a neighbor to get a simply beautiful and sweet stray cat (female DSH maybe 8-10 months) to a rescue. I have several rescues who have offered to take her in (yes, I've done research to make sure they're legitimate and up to par). Unfortunately, due to various preventative issues on both our ends, we're not able to take her in ourselves.
Until we can physically get her into the care of one of the groups in the next couple of days, I've offered to help cover the costs of boarding her at our vet's. Therein lies the potential problem and related question...
The cat is very thin. The neighbor has been feeding her and says she's been inhaling the food, but not gaining weight. I have no idea what this means, but I'm thinking it can't be good.
Our vet will only board a cat if it's had a rabies vax. I've heard that you don't want to give a rabies vax to a cat that has FeLV or FIV. Is that true? If so, okay, I guess I'll pay for a test for that first... Oy. My question is whether or not that's true. I don't want to put this cat at risk if we proceed with the rabies vax if she turns out to have either of those, but I don't know what to do otherwise. Additionally, I'm wondering if the fact that she's so thin is indicative of one of those anyway. If so, I'm doubting the rescues I had lined up will even take her. If I had some place for her to stay and be boarded for the amount of time necessary to find a foster willing to take in a FeLV and/or FIV+ cat, that would be great, but if having one of those means you can't get a rabies vax, and no rabies vax means you can't be boarded, then it sounds like we're out of luck.
Part of the haste for this is that we're in an apartment complex in a part of the country that's very cold right now. We can't just set up a shelter for the cat without management ordering it taken down. We can't take it in because my own cat is already ill and stress exacerbates her issues (she's also is prone to dangers auto-immune reactions, so I can't risk another cat in here. The neighbor would love to take her in, but her dog will have none of it. So, although we have a solution lined up of no-kill rescues willing to take the cat, I'm not sure if they'll take her if she's diagnosed with those illnesses and know that having them ultimately means my vet can't keep her until we come up with someone willing to foster an ill cat.
I'd be very eager to hear your thoughts on whether it's true that having those illnesses means you can't give the rabies vax, and whether we should just go in expecting her to be sick given how thin she is and how much she's eating.
Thanks in advance.
Until we can physically get her into the care of one of the groups in the next couple of days, I've offered to help cover the costs of boarding her at our vet's. Therein lies the potential problem and related question...
The cat is very thin. The neighbor has been feeding her and says she's been inhaling the food, but not gaining weight. I have no idea what this means, but I'm thinking it can't be good.
Our vet will only board a cat if it's had a rabies vax. I've heard that you don't want to give a rabies vax to a cat that has FeLV or FIV. Is that true? If so, okay, I guess I'll pay for a test for that first... Oy. My question is whether or not that's true. I don't want to put this cat at risk if we proceed with the rabies vax if she turns out to have either of those, but I don't know what to do otherwise. Additionally, I'm wondering if the fact that she's so thin is indicative of one of those anyway. If so, I'm doubting the rescues I had lined up will even take her. If I had some place for her to stay and be boarded for the amount of time necessary to find a foster willing to take in a FeLV and/or FIV+ cat, that would be great, but if having one of those means you can't get a rabies vax, and no rabies vax means you can't be boarded, then it sounds like we're out of luck.
Part of the haste for this is that we're in an apartment complex in a part of the country that's very cold right now. We can't just set up a shelter for the cat without management ordering it taken down. We can't take it in because my own cat is already ill and stress exacerbates her issues (she's also is prone to dangers auto-immune reactions, so I can't risk another cat in here. The neighbor would love to take her in, but her dog will have none of it. So, although we have a solution lined up of no-kill rescues willing to take the cat, I'm not sure if they'll take her if she's diagnosed with those illnesses and know that having them ultimately means my vet can't keep her until we come up with someone willing to foster an ill cat.
I'd be very eager to hear your thoughts on whether it's true that having those illnesses means you can't give the rabies vax, and whether we should just go in expecting her to be sick given how thin she is and how much she's eating.
Thanks in advance.