I'm sooooo happy! :-)

[Kittybabe (Ruth)]

Well done Lottie! So excited for you!!

[Team Svartalfheims]

Me thinks Miss Boopy will be looking to foreign shores for boyfriend material

Lol she certainly will. Have got my eye on a few as you know 

[Linda (Bengalbabe)]

Good News Lottie    Me thinks Miss Boopy will be looking to foreign shores for boyfriend material being such a sophisticat 

[Team Svartalfheims]

Pmsl!!! Bilbo certainly looks the part, very exotic!!!

He's very excited about having a foreign girlfriend lol 

[Amy]

Pmsl!!! Bilbo certainly looks the part, very exotic!!!
Congrats Lottie Miss Boopy certainly is fantastic (french accent!!) 

[Team Svartalfheims]

I wouldn't have thought it's any more risky than them having any other vaccination at that age. Aww bless his 14 year old paws! Has he learnt to meow in French yet? Bilbo Baggins has started practising ready for Miss Boopy coming home.

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[CarolM (Wendolene)]

Aww how old is she? I'm sure she'll be fine and at least you'll be able to cuddle her while she has her vaccinations. You can get them to do 2 vaccinations before the blood test if you are worried rather than having to pay out twice for blood tests. Just make sure you allow plenty of time to get everything done before you need the passport to be valid (blood tests can take a while to get the results of).
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Korky is 14 years old which is why I am so worried about having it done.  We spend the summers in France and at the moment he stays home with my mum who has lived with us since before we got Korky so I would like that situation to continue.  However, without boring you with too much detail, she is in her nineties and I feel I ought to have a fall back situation.  We wouldn't need his passport to be valid until we were coming back into the UK  but obviously we wouldn't take him out of the country until we knew his blood results were OK

[Team Svartalfheims]

Korky is at the other end of the scale and I've heard that older cats can need 2 vaccinations

Aww how old is she? I'm sure she'll be fine and at least you'll be able to cuddle her while she has her vaccinations. You can get them to do 2 vaccinations before the blood test if you are worried rather than having to pay out twice for blood tests. Just make sure you allow plenty of time to get everything done before you need the passport to be valid (blood tests can take a while to get the results of).

[CarolM (Wendolene)]

Miss Boopy's worked first time and she was only 3 months old when she had it done (apparently young animals are more likely to need 2 rabies vaccinations I've read) As far as I am aware she had no reaction to it. I'm afriad I don't know which vaccine it was she had as she's over in France.

Korky is at the other end of the scale and I've heard that older cats can need 2 vaccinations

[Team Svartalfheims]

 I can understand how you feel.  Korky is probably going to have the vaccination early next year and its a worry that it might have to be repeated if it doesn't work sufficiently first time, especially as you read awful tales about injection site reacions to rabies vaccine (thats one of the reasons I say probably rather than definitely).

Presumably Miss Boopy had no adverse reaction to the vaccine.  Do you know which of the available vaccines it was that she had?

Miss Boopy's worked first time and she was only 3 months old when she had it done (apparently young animals are more likely to need 2 rabies vaccinations I've read) As far as I am aware she had no reaction to it. I'm afriad I don't know which vaccine it was she had as she's over in France.

[CarolM (Wendolene)]

   I can understand how you feel.  Korky is probably going to have the vaccination early next year and its a worry that it might have to be repeated if it doesn't work sufficiently first time, especially as you read awful tales about injection site reacions to rabies vaccine (thats one of the reasons I say probably rather than definitely).

Presumably Miss Boopy had no adverse reaction to the vaccine.  Do you know which of the available vaccines it was that she had?

[Team Svartalfheims]

Yep it's one more step closer to her coming home. Her airline approved carrier is on it's way over to her at the moment lol so she's got plenty of time to get used to it. Just looking forward to when I can go and pick her up (prob end of June after my uni exams) as until then it won't feel like she's *my* cat if you know what I mean. Should be getting new pics of her soon too, yay!

[Team Svartalfheims]

They have to have a blood test after their rabies vaccination to show that it has given them adequate protection against rabies. They have to have a result equal to or more than 0.5 IU/ml and Miss Boopy's was 1.24 IU/ml  Never thought I'd be quite so excited about a blood test result lol.

[Mimi (Mewg)]

That's brilliant news Lottie! 

Hopefully once Christmas is over the time will fly and before you know it you can bring Miss Boopy home!!! 

[Christine (Blip)]

I can see how excited you are and can't help but be swept up in your joy 

But for someone who hasn't been involved in this sort of thing and isn't medical - what does it mean? Please tell!

[Team Svartalfheims]

I know it's not exciting to anyone except me but I got the fantastic news a few minutes ago that Miss Boopy's rabies neutralising titre blood test results are back and they are above the level they needed to be!   
I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy. Best Christmas pressie I could have asked for  She can now enter the UK from May 8th 2007