Can domestic rural cats avoid vaccination?

Usually, it is recommended to regularly inject vaccines and deworm rural cats, regardless of whether they are breed cats or rural cats. Although most breed or rural cats are kept indoors and do not go outside, owners may bring bacteria and viruses home. Cats lick everywhere, and vaccination can reduce the risk of infection with feline panleukopenia (feline distemper), feline infectious tracheitis (herpesvirus), and feline cup virus. It is still recommended to regularly inject vaccines into rural cats to avoid infectious diseases.

It is advised to vaccinate rural cats as well, as they are the same as breed cats in that their maternal antibodies gradually disappear after weaning and leaving their mothers. Due to various stresses such as changes in environment and food, young cats' immune systems weaken, making them more susceptible to illness or virus infections during this period.

Cat vaccines can be divided into initial vaccination and annual boosters.

Initial Vaccination: For routine vaccines, young cats can receive their first vaccination two months after birth. They need to be injected with three doses of combined vaccines to prevent infectious diseases and one dose of rabies vaccine. Each injection should be administered at an interval of 21 days, and the rabies vaccine can be injected on the 7th day after the third dose of the combined vaccine. Note that young cats should be vaccinated only when they are in good health. They should not be bathed before or after vaccination. Vaccination is considered successful when antibody levels are high, and bathing can be resumed after that.

Booster Vaccination: Adult cats require an annual booster dose of one combined vaccine and one rabies vaccine, which should be injected one month earlier than the previous year. For example, if the vaccination was in May last year, the booster dose should be administered in April this year. It is recommended to also worm both internally and externally when receiving the vaccine.