Cat Vaccination

Cats require a course of two injections to start their vaccination protection and yearly booster vaccination thereafter. There should be three to four weeks between the first and second injection. The earliest a kitten can start its vaccination programme is at nine weeks of age. Flu and enteritis vaccinations tend to be required for admission to catteries.

Cat flu - this is caused be two different viral infections and can rarely be fatal. It will commonly result in chronic incurable eye and nose problems.

Feline enteritis - basically feline parvo virus. The more famous canine parvo virus evolved from this disease.

Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) - The most common infectious cause of death in cats and the second largest cause of death in young cats after car accidents. FeLV is a retro-virus similar to HIV or feline immunodefiency virus. It can produce virtually any symptom of disease but most commonly causes immunosuppression and cancers. Cats can have this disease for months or years without symptoms but once symptoms begin time is usually short.

Feline bordetellosis - the equivalent of kennel cough in cats. This is not a vaccine we use very often and would tend to only use if a cattery insisted your cat was vaccinated for this disease or there was a known risk. 

Feline chlamydia - in cats chlamydia mostly produces symptoms similar to flu. It is a serious disease but is rarely fatal and can be treated with antibiotics. We tend to only recommend this vaccination for high risk cats such as show and colony cats.