[OwnedByJezebel]

Prayers for all of you.

My dogs are walked regularly about the neighborhood, so they get exposed to anything that wonders around the area. We aren't rural, but we aren't far from a river with dense trees and vegetation around it, so we see all types of critters -- hogs, deer, raccoon, skunks, rats, possums ... I even saw a bobcat at dusk about a month ago. All are potential lepto carriers. My vet does see cases of lepto, and my pups do get vaccinated and have never had a reaction.

You are right to worry about the gkids and MIL, too. My cousin is a large animal vet and he came down with lepto. Very nasty, very dangerous. At least they are aware, so if they start to get symptoms they will know to warn the doctor that it could be lepto. If an unsuspecting person came down with it, the symptoms could be so many different things I wonder if it might be easy to pass it off as something else and slow to diagnose.