There are many diseases that our beloved furry can suffer from, and some of them are especially serious and dangerous. To avoid them, it is very important to keep the vaccination schedule up to date. One of the most important that must be administered is the feline trivalent.
Do you want to know when to put it on and what it protects against? Well, do not stop reading that I will tell you below 🙂.
Against what diseases does it protect?
Vaccines are a very effective preventive remedy. It is true that they do not protect 100%, but they do protect between 95 and 99%, which is already a lot. In fact, often getting vaccinated or not can be the difference between whether you can overcome an illness ... or not.
If we talk about the trivalent feline, it protects against:
- Feline herpesvirus 1 (FHV-1): sick cats may have sneezing, persistent runny nose, conjunctivitis, bronchitis, sinusitis.
- Feline calicivirus (FCV): which can cause feline rhinotracheitis, the symptoms of which are sneezing, tearing, loss of appetite, listlessness.
- Feline Parvovirus (FPV): responsible for feline panleukopenia, a highly contagious disease - among cats. The symptoms are: vomiting, anorexia, fever, diarrhea, dehydration.
When should it be administered?
The trivalent feline given first at two months and then the booster at three months. It is very important to offer the kitten this protection because at this age it has a quite vulnerable immune system, and this is when the most dangerous viruses could seriously harm it.
But if we have adopted an adult cat and we do not know if it has been vaccinated previously, it can be given a first dose of trivalent and, after about 14 or 15 days, the booster. Previous diagnostic tests are not usually done because, in these cases, it is very rare that they test positive.
So is it worth putting it on? Certainly yes. Even if it is a house cat, which never goes out into the street, all prevention is little.