When do cats get rabies? Symptoms of cat rabies! Rabies mainly infects dogs, cats and other carnivores. Animals with the disease and animals with virus are the main source of infection. The virus is mainly found in saliva, and the virus is contained in the sleeping fluid 10 to 15 days before the onset of clinical symptoms and 6 to 7 days after the disappearance of clinical symptoms. Healthy cats are infected mainly through bites, scratch wounds and mucosal damage. Through research, rabies virus may also be infected through the digestive tract and respiratory tract. According to research, the salivary glands of bats carry the virus, so it is believed that bats play an important role in the transmission of rabies. Dogs, cats and various other livestock, poultry and bison animals are susceptible to this disease, and humans are also highly susceptible. Among experimental animals, rabbits, guinea pigs (details), small Rats can also be infected. The disease is mostly caused by bites, so the epidemic chain is particularly obvious, and it occurs in the form of one after another. Generally, it occurs more in spring and summer than in autumn and winter.

Symptoms of feline rabies: The incubation period of rabies varies, depending on the site of the bite (distance from the central nervous system) and extent and the amount of virus in the saliva. The shortest is 8 days, and the longest can be several months or more than 1 year. The average incubation period is 20-60 days for cats and 30-60 days for humans. Typical cases in cats can be divided into prodromal, violent and paralytic periods.

Symptoms of cat rabies: Prodromal cats tend to hide, hid in dark corners and whistling constantly, behave abnormally, slightly stimulated, easily agitated, do not listen to calls, mydriasis, and hyperreflexia. The prodromal period is generally 1-2 days.

Feline rabies symptoms: Cats in the violent period are violent and restless, attacking people and animals or chasing other cats or biting themselves. They stare directly, don't listen to their master's orders, and most of the time they go out and don't return. The cry became hoarse as the throat muscles began to paralyze. In addition, drooping jaw, dysphagia, increased salivation, salivation. Usually lasts 1 to 7 days.

Symptoms of feline rabies: In the later stage (ie, paralysis stage), the sick cat loses weight, is depressed, walks swaying, the sick cat opens its mouth, hangs its tongue, looks like a fox, and discharges foamy saliva from the mouth, and the nictitating membrane Prominent, pitch changes. Soon, the hind limbs are paralyzed, and they often lie on the ground. Eventually, they die due to systemic failure and respiratory paralysis. Generally, the paralysis period is 2 to 4 days.

The rabies that is popular now is often dominated by atypical types, with few typical manifestations. There is a type of rabies called depressive rabies. The excitement period (violent period) is very short, or even there is no (or indistinguishable), and it is directly transformed into a paralysis period, often dying after 2 to 4 days.

The above describes the symptoms of cat rabies. For the sake of cats and their own safety, parents must do a good job of vaccination for cats. Once a cat is found to be infected with rabies, isolate the sick cat from other cats in time.