Charlie wrote in message ...
You're worrying unnecessarily! It's ssssoooo hard for humans to get
rabies,
but you can get vaccinated at the docs for it. House pets have to be
vaccinated for it anyway when they get their pedigree.

Charlie.
Certainly not here in the UK, unless you are taking them abroad.
Vaccination against rabies is not recommended, it, for humans, consists
of a number of painful injections, AFAIK about 20, and is normally only
done to people at great risk.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk

Charlie wrote in message ...
Well, we had to have all ours done (two dogs and a cat) before they
were 12
weeks old. Maybe things have changed recently.

Charlie.

Having bred and shown pedigree dogs I can say, for certain, that neither
of these breeds are vaccinated against rabies, pedigree or not, Dogs are
vaccinated against distemper, hard pad and parvovirus. Cats against
feline flu and feline leukaemia, Dogs and cats being taken abroad for
shows have to have a rabies vaccination certificate before they are
allowed back into this country, and that must show that they were
vaccinated before they left the UK. Animals can be brought over here to
be shown, and they must also have been vaccinated before they enter the
country, but that does NOT have to be done before 12 weeks, just a
certain number of weeks before they travel, in fact it would be stupid
to do it unless they were going to travel as it is an expensive job, and
is only done for people moving to the UK, or bringing high quality
animals across for shows.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk

In article , Michael Berridge
writes

Charlie wrote in message ...
You're worrying unnecessarily! It's ssssoooo hard for humans to get
rabies,
but you can get vaccinated at the docs for it. House pets have to be
vaccinated for it anyway when they get their pedigree.

Charlie.
Certainly not here in the UK, unless you are taking them abroad.
Vaccination against rabies is not recommended, it, for humans, consists
of a number of painful injections, AFAIK about 20, and is normally only
done to people at great risk.

You are considerably out of date. Vaccination if you are going to an
area where rabies is common and think you might be at risk consists of
three injections over a one month period. Post-bite treatment, if you
haven't been vaccinated, consists of an injection around the site of the
bite followed by five injections over a one month period.

--
Malcolm

That's odd. My friends are going to a Catholic Mission in Kenya this summer
and they're having their rabies jabs now. It only consists of three, not
twenty.

Charlie.

"Michael Berridge" wrote in message
...

Charlie wrote in message ...
You're worrying unnecessarily! It's ssssoooo hard for humans to get
rabies,
but you can get vaccinated at the docs for it. House pets have to be
vaccinated for it anyway when they get their pedigree.

Charlie.
Certainly not here in the UK, unless you are taking them abroad.
Vaccination against rabies is not recommended, it, for humans, consists
of a number of painful injections, AFAIK about 20, and is normally only
done to people at great risk.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk






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Charlie scribbled:

That's odd. My friends are going to a Catholic Mission in Kenya this
summer and they're having their rabies jabs now. It only consists of
three, not twenty.

Charlie.

Yes now it is, but it used to be a very painful process.
The wonders of modern tecnology.