As a pet owner, this question always will always appear in your thought. Should I vaccinate my cats or dogs?
100% yes and it is a must. Don’t wait or delay. This will protect them from virus. Yeah virus and it’s scary like hell, just like COVID-19 causing death. You hear me, it will cause death.
Previously, I had no experience in handling cats as pet. I didn’t know that vaccination is so important and I always procrastinate and never take this as priority.
Here’s a tragic story that I encountered myself. I believe reading this story, you will have a firm answer on whether to vaccinate your cats / dogs or not.
2 years ago, I had 2 kittens living together in a room. One had vaccinated once, but another didn’t. Then one day, the one who didn’t vaccinate yet, I call her Lulu, suddenly vomited.
Vomit is normal for cat, and not a big concern actually. However, the frequency increased the next day to 3 times a day. Then 5 times the following day. Worse, Lulu is not eating anymore. I had my worst nightmare when Lulu don’t even want to eat snack (every cats’ favorite is snack).
So I brought her to veterinarian for checkup. I got the shock of my life, when the veterinarian told me she actually dying. We had a blood test on her and she contracted FPV — Feline Parvovirus. There’s no cure for this virus.
The veterinarian suggested me to bring to a veterinary that has hospitalization facility, to have any chance of alive. I immediately bring her for hospitalization, put on drip. Doctor say she has 50/50 chance to be alive. Unfortunately, she died the following day. Still feeling sad while typing this.
According to the veterinarian, if the cat has vaccinated, the chance of contracting this virus is far lesser and even if contracted, they are strong enough to fight it off. A painful lesson for me.
**** Curse this FPV — Feline Parvovirus. It will eat up the cat internal organs and Lulu stomach actually got destroyed by it. There’s a day, when Lulu actually shit out a long rubbery stuff, which I suspect is her intestines 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Rest in peace…. Lulu
