Weird looking smeller poop after rabies shot?

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So not long ago (2 days) I took my boys to the vet and they both got rabies shots!

Herman's poops are normal again ( he had one weird one but that was it) 

But Lafayette seems to have smellier, odder looking poops. They arnt much different then normal other then the smell and looking a bit off ( fluffier and a weird slime was on 1 of them) He also didnt poop much today.
Should I call my vet? Or wait a little longer? The smell isnt to strong but his poop never smelled before so thats weird to me.


On a side note Herman looks like he back washes in his water ( I clean out his bowl of water once or twice a day) Is that normal? its like if he still had some chewed up food and when washed out his mouth in the water haha

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When Piper had an allergic reaction to the rabies shot, she got it within 20 minutes. She vomited several times that hour and got diarrhea. I feel like if it's been over 24 hours, the weird poops might be related to something else.

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Ok I just wanted to make sure it wasnt the rabies shot because that has been the only thing to change. Just didnt want it to be something from the shot , now i need to figure out what it is, maybe his newer food...

[Sherry]

It is likely related to the vaccine, but not a reaction. In the same way antibiotics can give funky stools a vaccine can as well

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always make sure to stay at vet for 30 min after shot, and watch out for second rabies shot----- as this is when they r likely to have a reaction if not with the first one.  My vet seemed to stress the second one as crucial in showing an allergic reaction.

I guess it is like people with bee stings. They can build up something from first sting and allergic reaction show up in the second.

I have not given my kit rabies  although vet  keeps asking when i am there. I wonder if it is law that they ask?

We have a coyote around here after our neighbors chickens, but my babies r in house and dogs have had rabies so no worry on that  


However, if coyote gets distemper???

[Deleted]

Yeah, please vaccinate your kit against distemper. That's an agonizing incurable death.

[miamiferret2]

Sounds like a post vet visit stress poop.

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Abbytheferret6 that is exactly what happened with me and bees I kept getting stung and now I need an epipen.

[miamiferret2]

Give him some slippery elm for a few days. There should be a recipe for that here on the forum somewhere. Maybe under IBD in the health /medical section.

[miamiferret2]

You should vaccinate for distemper. Your vet can pre-treat with benadryl prior to administering the vaccine so as to minimize any allergic reaction.
You should not have to re-vaccinate each year. Actually, it seems more and more vets are recommending titering to check vaccine levels in the blood rather than re-vaccinating each year and needlessly triggering an immune response.

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Fender, does that include wasp, yellow jackets, and bumble bees?

Glad vets r changing their views.


I read Marshall farm ferrets get distemper shots before leaving their facility. 

[raynebc]

It's suspected that the vaccines Marshall gives are when the ferrets are too young and the mother's antibodies deflect some of it, which is why they want shots to be followed up later. I haven't given my ferrets a follow up distemper vaccine because there is no ferret specific vaccine on the market and I would rather keep my ferrets indoors than give them a vaccine not designed for them and risk a bad reaction. I don't know why they couldn't just manufacture the canine distemper vaccine by itself instead of mixing in with another vaccine.

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I dont know about herman ( though we think he is a marshall ferret) but i do know Lafayette is a marshall ferret who got a distemper before. I know this because his old owner gave me some papers with him and it said it on them

His poos still smell more then normal ( they look slightly puffier then normal to but not that abnormal looking) Hes still got his high energy levels though and doesnt seem sick at all

I dont think he ever got a rabies shot before as his old owner never took him to the vet ( She told me I didnt need to take them to the vet, that i should just feed them Marshall brand stuff, but clearly that isnt good haha)

They are both suppose to go back to the vet for distemper next month, should I not do this? I want to let my babies outside and im a little paranoid about sickness but I would really hate to put them though something horrible.

I also live slightly in the woods (still in a neighborhood area though!) and we have deer, coyotes, turkeys and a fox or two. For some reason this year we even have a pole cat killing all the squirrels... Being slightly in the woods they walk around in our yard and I worry that if I let my buddies waddle around in the grass they might catch something >^<

how bad are the reactions to distemper? Could they kill a ferret or leave them permanently damaged?

Side note. Both my boys are coughing a little (Not to often! mostly after chewing on themselves haha) and I noticed people talking about giving them eggs? Can you give them the entire egg ( Without the shell) raw? or just the yoke? Also should I take away there food 3-4 hours in advance? ( if there is a post about this can someone link me?)

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I agree that straightforward ferret vaccines can be hard to find, but ferrets can catch CD indoors: canine distemper in ferrets


You may want to check that link out too, @lafayettedoordigger. If that link is correct (among others), CD can be brought in on us/our clothing, and wooded areas are more problematic than some areas. Definitely do your own research though; that link hasn't been revised since 2006, so there might be gaps in info.