>From:    "Robyn B. Stephens" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Missing initial distemper shots
>I replied to my vet that I had heard and read that a kit needs 3 shots
>initially, about 2 weeks apart, and then one annually.  My vet said that
>wasn't really necessary, but was interested in any info I could acquire on
>the subject.
 
You might point your vet at the Fox book on ferret medicine.  It has a
longish section on CDV.  The recommendations from United Vaccines (Fervac-D)
is three shots three weeks apart.  I would hesitate to recommend the two
week interval based on the FOX book's comments on how easily over dosing the
vaccine gives a variation of distemper itself.  I don't have the Hilyer book
in front of me so I can't look up what it says.  Does your vet have these
two books?  They would certainly be a good start.  We can provide full
titles and publishers if needed.
 
bill and diane killian
zen and the art of ferrets
http://www.zenferret.com/
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[Posted in FML issue 1862]