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Dammit, Get Them Rabies Shots!

I'm sorry, but even my teeny-tiny town offers a yearly "rabies shots" clinic every single Winter. You just bring your dog or cat and pay something minor such as $9 bucks and your beloved pet is protected for a couple of years. What is so damn hard about that? Aren't they worth it? Couldn't you skip the beer or cigarettes for a couple days and insure your pet's health? From Albany TV9:

A Rensselaer County cat has tested positive for rabies -- and health officials are worried there may be more.

Rensselaer County officials are looking for four kittens adopted from a private home in Pittstown on or around June 5 or 6.

Officials said the kittens may or may not have the disease. However, they are asking anyone who thinks they may have the kittens to contact the health department at...

Folks, this is a disease that is SO easily preventable and quite frankly is even rather rare in wild animals (bats not-withstanding.) Come on people, even if, as I do, you keep your dogs and cats indoors all the time, give them this simple, cheap, protection. A mouse-in-the-house could transmit rabies. Just DO IT!

Would you deny your own children their easily obtainable mumps, chickenpox, etc., shots? Protect your loved pets as well. And in a side-note, get them spayed or neutered as well. I do stay away from the feline-leukemia shots but I do also get them their distemper shots. It's so simple and easy and inexpensive. Don't they deserve it?

Posted by Jeff Soyer at June 27, 2004 12:31 PM