Rabies Support Group
Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in animals and people. In unvaccinated humans, rabies is almost invariably fatal once full-blown symptoms have developed, but prompt post-exposure vaccination usually prevents symptoms from developing. After a typical human infection by animal bite, the virus enters the peripheral nervous system and travels along...
First I want to give my condolences to those who have lost pets and loved ones to rabies.
I don't really know what I'm doing, rather or not if I'm asking a question or just need to get this out of my system. So I'm just going share what happened a few days ago.
My boyfriend had three cats and a pug. A few weeks ago we left our house and the last time that we saw his pug he was chasing a neighbor's dog. He had been favoring his back leg and to see him playing made me think that he was ok. He never came home.
A few days ago me and my boyfriend got up and he had to be a work so he dropped me off at my place. The last time that we saw the youngest cat, she was two years old, she was sleeping on the bed. When we got back to his place we didn't see her. Which was normal, she had a way to get outside and come back inside, but by eight o clock she still wasn't home. We called out for her and she didn't come running back inside, which was a little odd, but she did this a couple of nights ago and when we woke up she was in our bed. So we just assumed that she would come back during the night while we were sleeping. At one we went to bed and about ten minutes later I start hearing this noise. At first I couldn't tell what it was and just assumed that it was his roommate making some kind of noise in the kitchen, but it didn't let up and it kept getting louder and started to sound like panting. By this point it's so heavy that we thought it was his dog and somehow he was stuck under the house. After looking a bit we couldn't find anything under the house so we looked under the tub. (The tub is a garden tub and there were opened panels because there was a pipe that needed to be fixed and the panels were never put back.) We found her under there and if she wasn't painting I would have thought she was dead. When I picked her up she was stiffed, her breath smelt like death, and her eyes rolled to the back of her head. At first she wasn't responding to our voices or to light, but my boyfriend held held her in front of the fan and had a wet rag. She started to come back and suckled the rag some. We drove her to the nearest 24/7 animal hospital. She had waves of starting to paint and contort her body to recognizing my boyfriend's voice and trying to get closer to him.
It was during the ride there that my boyfriend thought that something was stuck in her throat that he put his fingers in her mouth and she bit him. It wasn't a sudden attack, just a cat that wasn't in her right mind and doing what anybody else would have done if someone put fingers in their mouth.
We didn't have the money to keep her alive and with the fact that my boyfriend was bitten the doctor was 90% sure animal control would order them to put her down anyway (She was three mouths over due for her next rabies shot). We wanted to be with her for her final moments.
Yesterday she was shipped to be tested for rabies. There was a part of me that didn't think she had rabies. Having our pug go missing and few days later our cat had to be put down, I believe that someone in the neighborhood have been doing something to our pets. I didn't think much about it when I starting staying nights there, but two pets gone in such a short time doesn't seem right to me. I know may sound a little bit paranoid about this, I'm not usually that person, but there was already one neighbor who could not stand our dog. His mother thinks that someone poisoned our cat because they didn't want her on their property.
But I also know that there's a chance that she might have rabies. We're still waiting on the test results. I know my boyfriend is doing his best not to panic right now. I just keep telling myself that she didn't have them to keep myself from worrying. He thinks that no cares if he has them or not and I don't know how to show him that I do care without scaring him. I told him that if he wanted to go ahead get the shot for rabies I would be there with him, but other than that I don't know how I can support him. To show him that I care while we wait. I was never that great with dealing with emotions before I was in a relationship. When something bad happened to keep myself from worrying I blocked out emotions relating to it. I know that's what I'm doing now, but I also know it's not helping my boyfriend. Does anyone have any advice for me?
Ps, I am so sorry that this is so long. I just needed to get it out of me.
I don't really know what I'm doing, rather or not if I'm asking a question or just need to get this out of my system. So I'm just going share what happened a few days ago.
My boyfriend had three cats and a pug. A few weeks ago we left our house and the last time that we saw his pug he was chasing a neighbor's dog. He had been favoring his back leg and to see him playing made me think that he was ok. He never came home.
A few days ago me and my boyfriend got up and he had to be a work so he dropped me off at my place. The last time that we saw the youngest cat, she was two years old, she was sleeping on the bed. When we got back to his place we didn't see her. Which was normal, she had a way to get outside and come back inside, but by eight o clock she still wasn't home. We called out for her and she didn't come running back inside, which was a little odd, but she did this a couple of nights ago and when we woke up she was in our bed. So we just assumed that she would come back during the night while we were sleeping. At one we went to bed and about ten minutes later I start hearing this noise. At first I couldn't tell what it was and just assumed that it was his roommate making some kind of noise in the kitchen, but it didn't let up and it kept getting louder and started to sound like panting. By this point it's so heavy that we thought it was his dog and somehow he was stuck under the house. After looking a bit we couldn't find anything under the house so we looked under the tub. (The tub is a garden tub and there were opened panels because there was a pipe that needed to be fixed and the panels were never put back.) We found her under there and if she wasn't painting I would have thought she was dead. When I picked her up she was stiffed, her breath smelt like death, and her eyes rolled to the back of her head. At first she wasn't responding to our voices or to light, but my boyfriend held held her in front of the fan and had a wet rag. She started to come back and suckled the rag some. We drove her to the nearest 24/7 animal hospital. She had waves of starting to paint and contort her body to recognizing my boyfriend's voice and trying to get closer to him.
It was during the ride there that my boyfriend thought that something was stuck in her throat that he put his fingers in her mouth and she bit him. It wasn't a sudden attack, just a cat that wasn't in her right mind and doing what anybody else would have done if someone put fingers in their mouth.
We didn't have the money to keep her alive and with the fact that my boyfriend was bitten the doctor was 90% sure animal control would order them to put her down anyway (She was three mouths over due for her next rabies shot). We wanted to be with her for her final moments.
Yesterday she was shipped to be tested for rabies. There was a part of me that didn't think she had rabies. Having our pug go missing and few days later our cat had to be put down, I believe that someone in the neighborhood have been doing something to our pets. I didn't think much about it when I starting staying nights there, but two pets gone in such a short time doesn't seem right to me. I know may sound a little bit paranoid about this, I'm not usually that person, but there was already one neighbor who could not stand our dog. His mother thinks that someone poisoned our cat because they didn't want her on their property.
But I also know that there's a chance that she might have rabies. We're still waiting on the test results. I know my boyfriend is doing his best not to panic right now. I just keep telling myself that she didn't have them to keep myself from worrying. He thinks that no cares if he has them or not and I don't know how to show him that I do care without scaring him. I told him that if he wanted to go ahead get the shot for rabies I would be there with him, but other than that I don't know how I can support him. To show him that I care while we wait. I was never that great with dealing with emotions before I was in a relationship. When something bad happened to keep myself from worrying I blocked out emotions relating to it. I know that's what I'm doing now, but I also know it's not helping my boyfriend. Does anyone have any advice for me?
Ps, I am so sorry that this is so long. I just needed to get it out of me.
Mrs.Bart
Oh my, did you guys ever find out if your cat had rabies? And is your boyfriend ok?
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