from: Stephanie Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chere, Just to let you know what happened. When one of my cavaliers got the combo vaccine (no lepto) plus his first rabies on the same day. He appeared fine for a few hours. He was young, whatever the normal age would be when they get the first rabies shot?
A few hours later he began to walk away from me and just began screaming, it wasn't a yelp, it was a continuous scream like he was hurt. I picked him up it made it worse... I called the E.R. (vet) and emailed a couple friends on the list and the consensus was he had "too much" at one time and to let it run it's course as long as he wasn't vomiting or diarrhea etc. He didnt appear to have any abscess at the inj. site, nothing like that. When he would stop yelping, I couldnt touch him anywhere. It was as if his whole body hurt, his skin, ears tail you name it. He would crawl into my lap and try to get comfortable and i couldnt move. This went on for almost 3 days. I sat with him, and it got a tiny bit better each day. I dont know how much of that was pain, and how much was emotion or drama! I have to go along as if there is something wrong because i cant know for sure what happened. That was the last time he was vaccinated and he wont get annual vaccines, he'll be on a different schedule that my vet has. Every couple yrs. and 3 yrs apart for rabies. (and not near the same time) I still think he had a "pain" reaction and not a reaction like an allergy but i cant say for sure what happened. He also did a similar thing when microchipped.. My 3 yr old Darby has a "physical" reaction to shots. Bloddy diarrhea for days. He only gets rabies every 3 years now. He doesnt complain and never cried not even when chipped. So some of their difference can be their pain tolerance levels! :) I have spoken to Dr. Dodds and she was quite helpful in going over vaccine schedules for them... Steph Hart ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
