How to protect my cat from diseases carried by rodents?

My outdoor cat is well fed on Science Diet both wet and dry food, however his natural instict to catch and EAT his prey cannot be curbed (mostly rodents, mice, rabbits, chipmonks). What medicine or treatments to I need to provide him ongoing in order to protect him from disease and parasites?How to protect my cat from diseases carried by rodents?
Just regular visits to the Pet Vet for his/her normal shots. Just make sure he/she is on regular-updated-on time with the shots. My kitty is like that also. He was an inside cat all throughout his young years...he was probably 2 before he ever even got outside and because of that he'd never had shots. One day, he darted outside after a cat that was in the yard and he beat the crap outta that cat (my cat was raised by a Chow who happens to be his best friend and like his mama) so, I went and grabbed him and ran him to the vet and got his shots...he's fine...just gotta keep them shots updatedHow to protect my cat from diseases carried by rodents?
Please take your cat to the vet-get vaccines for rabies, distemper, upper respiratory illnesses, etc. You will also need to get some advantage or frontline at the vet for your cat-to help fight off fleas, etc. It is cheaper and better to get that stuff at the vet's. They need the weight of your animal for the proper ';dose'; of advantage/frontline.


Is there any way you could make your cat an indoor mostly cat? It would be healthier for the cat.


Take care.
The shots he gets at the Vet are really the only thing that can protect him. Even then there is always a chance of him getting sick because some people use poison on rodents. Cats tend to kill and then eat the stomach of its pray first, so if a rodent has been poisoned the cat can get it in their system. Ask your Vet if there is anything he could recommend since your cat goes outside.
Take your cat to the vets and get all of her vaccinations and also get her flea treatments. Most flea treatments also cover parasites such as worms and other parasites. The vet can also recommend other treatments for what other problems that the cat can pick up, Always check your cats for ear mites. Ear mites can cause a cat to go deaf. The cheapest and easiest way to remove mites from its ears is to squirt warmed (soak the bottle in hot water) baby oil in the ears and gently rub the ear back and forth. Use a cotton ball to remove the oil and the mites. To get the more delicate areas within the year use a q-tip.
if your cat is on Science Diet - it is not well fed...


this food is CRAP over priced, well marketed, crap!!


I dont know what formula your cat is on but as a rule Science Diet foods are all pretty crappy...


they PAID for vet endorsement - vets actually receive little or no training on food quality and ingredients so they are not taught what is bad etc... so when a pet food rep approachs them to sell a food they usually do - after all they get PAID to do so...





lngredients :Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Corn Gluten Meal, Pork Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Chicken Liver Flavor... etc





ok By-products are BEAKS FEET and FEATHERS and are preserved with a nasty chemical Pesticide known as Ethoxyquin which is so bad its banned from use in some countries like Japan. (by-products are cheap filler)


Corn%26gt;??? cats are true carnivours corn is crap - they have seperated it here showing it twice, which leads me to beleive that combined its fairly high up on the indredient list... meaning corn is a large percentage of the ingredients - RICE is more digestable and is ok.


Chicken Liver Flavor?? what kind of ingredient is FLAVOR??





you are paying WAY too much when you buy this food.





ok cats who eat rodents are at risk for many things - including worms - any over the counter meds only kill some kinds of worms - the vet carries more broad dewormer...





best thing is to keep him indoors - give him a bell on his collar...





but mainly get off that crappy food.. you are being ripped off by a very clever company
Go to the vet once or twice a year and let them examine and keep him vaccinated. Include your regualar vaccines and talk to your vet about Feline Leukemia Vaccine too. Have your vet deworm him once a year. I definitely don't recommend buying Hartz or that other over the counter stuff. Your vet can use products to kill several types of worms, inlcuding tape worms. Since tape worms are transmissible by fleas, from your cat licking his fur and ingesting them. I would also recommend keeping your cat on a topical flea control. Be careful not to give him anything made for a dog as this will kill him. I highly recommend getting a good product from you vet. Then once you learn a little more and know what products to use you can try 1-800 Pet Meds.


Toxoplasmosis is a rare disease that is carried by rodents. Try to keep her areas clean where she uses the toilet and don't personally clean up her litter box if you are pregnant. In other words do not touch her feces. Toxo should not affect your cat even if he gets it. You will probably never know if he does. Don't worry about it unless you are pregnant and then just take precautions and let somebody else clean up the litter box. Always leave your cat plenty of free choice food and fresh water. His killing instincts will never change, with or without food. But if he is less hungry he will have less of a desire to eat his kill and less opportunity to come down with anything. Really, don't worry about any of it. I have over 15 feral cats and all are well. In all of my years as a vet tech I have only known of one person that got Toxoplasmosis from a cat. The cats had other issues and where sickly and not fed properly.


Tthe person was treated and was fine. Toxo is also transimissible to humans through open wounds and contact with raw meat. Actually much more opportunity to get it through raw meat than eating a rodent. So, don't worry about the cat, she is very unlikely to develop anything like that. Let her be a cat and take her to the vet once a year and maybe now to start, you will both be fine.