The owner of a cat has to know about how rage is transmitted, than it is dangerous to the person. It is necessary to take preventive measures and to secure itself and the pet.
Instruction
1. The disease is called still forest rage because earlier forest inhabitants were messengers: wolves and foxes. It should be noted that the quantity of vagrant animals reached big indicators. Homeless cats and dogs are potentially dangerous. If the domestic cat or a cat are walked independently, that is risk of infection.
2. The infection contains in saliva. If the cat was bitten by a sick animal, then she is infected now too. It occurs most often during the fights. On arrival home the pet needs to be examined on existence of damages. Fight traces will be noticeable at once. The opinion that the infection contains in milk is wrong. It is possible to be infected only through the saliva which got on mucous membranes or to blood at a sting.
3. Even the domestic cat can catch an infection. The person who is a carrier of a disease is guilty of it. In the stairwell, on the street, in the basement it is possible to step on the infected saliva and to bring it home. Cats like to sniff, lick clothes and footwear of owners. So the infection gets inside. Therefore it is worth being careful of dirty footwear, it is necessary to wash it or to wipe carefully about a rug in the hall.
4. If the animal had suspicious symptoms: bloody allocations, a diarrhea, vomiting, exhaustion, irritation, fearfulness, it is worth showing it to the doctor immediately. During a disease there can be throat paralysis therefore will seem that the cat choked with something. It is just in case better to secure itself, to put on gloves, to catch the pet and to go to clinic. It is impossible to allow a sting from an animal.
5. Precautionary measures are necessary not only for the good of the pet, but also the owner. The person can be infected by a cat with rage. The infection also gets inside at a sting or hit of saliva on wounds. At the person it is possible to refer to symptoms of rage: photophobia, hallucinations, incoherent speech, muscular spasms, aggression, notions of compulsion, sensation of fear, paralysis, tears.
6. Protects performing annual vaccination from a dreadful disease of the pet. The risk of infection comes down to 1%. The procedure costs not much. The most quality vaccine is considered import. It is better to think in advance of health of the pet not to acquire troubles.