Distemper

[Bez!]

Figured I would put this here because it has nothing to do with cattle. In fact it has to do with cats.

As per usual, we are over run with the darned things - so once a year we catch them all up with a fishing net taped to a hockey stick and take them to the local veterinarian when they run their rabies and distemper shots clinic. With two or three in each feed bag it can get interesting at times.

Well, we have one that we never caught last year and it has distemper. I was simply going to shoot it and be done as I do not take them to the veterinarian for repair work. Barns cats live a tough life, but they are welcome here - and even get fed through the winter - as long as they cause me no probs.

So, my oldest daughter managed to catch it up - she found it lying in the driveway and it now is in a cage in the basement. It appears to be making it and can at least breathe and eat .....

I do not intend to take it to the veterinarian and I do not intend to bother him with this question until tonight when HE calls me over another matter - I know where he is right now and I know what he is doing - my call would be an annoyance at this time. Daughter told me this morning it is quite a bit better.

Anything else she can do except call upon me as the exterminator?

Ramifications? Will it get well enough to let out when the weather improves? Can they be vaccinated after they have had distemper? Or is it just a matter of shooting it and be done?

Looking for info - thanks,

Bez!

 

[dun]

With appropriate credit to the orinal poster

 

[Bez!]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

That really is a great shot - pun intended.

I am sure your post and my response will bring hate mail from someone.

:lol:

Bez!

 

[dun]

I am sure your post and my response will bring hate mail from someone.
Bez!

Ah well, so be it!

dun

 

[msscamp]

Bez!, there is really nothing you can do except shoot the cat. Distemper is almost always fatal and it's a nasty way to die.

 

[CowCop]

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I had a young dog miraculously survive distemper.

Had a few nerological issues from it, but it had a good life.

If you want a higher success rate with the cat, you might just call your vet sooner for some decent true-life advice.

I have seen alot of skunks with distemper, but never a cat.

Let us know the advice the vet gives you and the outcome.

Hoping for the best,

 

[Scotty]

Asked my wife who works for a vet. She says it will depend on the cat and how bad. But two weeks worth of Clavimox and genral support treatment and then it is still 50 50. Being wild animal that may reqire gloves and face shields.

 

[Bez!]

Asked my wife who works for a vet. She says it will depend on the cat and how bad. But two weeks worth of Clavimox and genral support treatment and then it is still 50 50. Being wild animal that may reqire gloves and face shields.

Missed his call tonight - am not prepared to spend ANY money on a cat.

It is in the basement and is doing fine - perhaps it will make it.

Yes it is distemper - I have seen it before and I usually just shoot the cat.

For some reason this one gets to live - blame the daughter - she usualy tells me to dispose of them - but she must like this one.

No money - no drugs - it seems to be coming along with just heat and some food.

We will see.

Bez!

 

[TnWI]

i hate to tell you, but once distemper has entered the premises, it takes up to two years for it to go away .... and according to my vets, the virus sits in old barns, or sheds, and basements...and when a animal that is weak (like a kitten, or a cat with a cold) it picks up the virus, and in most conditions dies.

I am on my third year of having it in my barns -- keeps the kitten and sick cat population down, but also increases the amount of bullets I keep in the house

 

[longhorn314]

I had a dog about 15 years ago when I was younger had distemper and it pulled thru and lived to be quite old actually.

 

[ctlbaron]

Bez, I don't know if you have ever heard of this but I remember Dad taking a tin can putting pine tar and feathers in it and lighting it on fire. When it begins to burn and smoke pretty good blow it out. He would hold the cat over it and let it breath the smoke for a few minutes. The few times I saw him do that they lived. I don't know what it does but it seemed to work. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. Please folks don't send the guys in the white jackets after me.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Figured I would put this here because it has nothing to do with cattle. In fact it has to do with cats.

As per usual, we are over run with the darned things - so once a year we catch them all up with a fishing net taped to a hockey stick and take them to the local veterinarian when they run their rabies and distemper shots clinic. With two or three in each feed bag it can get interesting at times.

Well, we have one that we never caught last year and it has distemper. I was simply going to shoot it and be done as I do not take them to the veterinarian for repair work. Barns cats live a tough life, but they are welcome here - and even get fed through the winter - as long as they cause me no probs.

So, my oldest daughter managed to catch it up - she found it lying in the driveway and it now is in a cage in the basement. It appears to be making it and can at least breathe and eat .....

I do not intend to take it to the veterinarian and I do not intend to bother him with this question until tonight when HE calls me over another matter - I know where he is right now and I know what he is doing - my call would be an annoyance at this time. Daughter told me this morning it is quite a bit better.

Anything else she can do except call upon me as the exterminator?

Ramifications? Will it get well enough to let out when the weather improves? Can they be vaccinated after they have had distemper? Or is it just a matter of shooting it and be done?

Looking for info - thanks,

Bez!

Box of 22 Long rifles maybe two depending on your shootin ability would cure that cat problem right up.

 

[dj]

Stole this
In 1858, Dr Barter 'undertook one of the most interesting of his projects' when he erected a cattle bath,and instituted a series of experiments to treat cattle diseases. The results obtained prompted the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland to appoint a committee to visit St Ann's, 'to examine and report upon the efficacy of the Turkish Bath as a remedy for distemper in horned cattle, and generally on its effects upon the health and constitution of the inferior animals.' The report was favorable and several veterinary establishments in Ireland and England erected baths for the regular treatment of cattle diseases. Among the conditions treated by Barter were pleauro-pneumonia, puerperal fever, distemper and strangles.

Bez let me know when you get the Turkish bath done. I'll volunteer to try it out. :lol: If you promise to feed me like the dogs ;-)
Caustic what'ca think. Will this replace the cattle slot at the local car wash?

 

[Caustic Burno]

might have something here for the Urbanite. The only bath mine are getting is crossing the creek.

 

[Bez!]

might have something here for the Urbanite. The only bath mine are getting is crossing the creek.

I need one of those baths. :lol:

Answer - the cat has distemper and will always have it. Some will live - like this one - but be carriers for ever.

As for it being on the farm - this place is 200 years old - and it has probably been here for at least 180.

Daughters have decreed it dies later today. I will have to break out one of the toys for this job.

I have raised a couple of blood thirsty little girls!

Bez!

 

[TnWI]

I have raised a couple of blood thirsty little girls!

Bez!

I would say they have learned some compassion for a animal that will always be sick -- something I am sure their parents installed in them a long time ago.