Because dog vaccines can create very real health problems.
Not exact matches
Dr Dodds didn't include rabies
vaccines because the law requires the whole vial must be given for the
dog to be considered vaccinated, so she can't condone giving smaller doses.
Distemper and parvovirus are also core
vaccines for
dogs,
because these diseases are usually deadly for puppies.
Again, canine influenza can be prevented by regular
vaccines, so check your
dogs records and bring them in for any updates,
because as they say, «An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!».
Your
dogs likely lived longer
BECAUSE they weren't «up - to - date» on
vaccines.
At first, it seemed like a «waste» of money
because Healthy Paws doesn't cover things like
vaccines and flea - prevention, which can be a large percentage of your monthly costs for your
dog.
The North Carolina State University (2) published a vaccination protocol in 2001 that «highly recommended» vaccination against distemper with a modified live
vaccine but noted that,
because some studies indicate that
dogs are still protected for five years or more when challenged by the disease, «a booster vaccination of every three years among adult
dogs is reasonable.»
The
dog owners seem happy enough to pay for this
vaccine but in many cases, the
dog is simply not protected
because he is vaccinated at the time of boarding.
In the early days, it was the imported Siberian sled -
dogs, sometimes referred to as Siberian rats
because of their lighter body structure and smaller size than the Malamutes and mixed breeds traditionally used in Alaska, that soon won fame and success - not only as very fast competitors in the grand sled -
dog races of the gold - rush era, but also as couriers of mail, and even of
vaccines which saved human lives (one very famous instance of which, is remembered through the classic Iditarod race).
So a feline retrovirus in their
vaccines could cause serious problems for our
dogs — but don't worry,
because it means we get «cheap»
vaccines!
No
vaccine is 100 % protective so it just isn't worth the risk - especially
because cats that have never met, unlike
dogs, usually don't hit it off real famously.
The reactivity associated with Lepto
vaccine can make a patient very itchy for three to four years and most agree, the
vaccine is incapable of protecting a
dog against Leptospira and worse yet, if the
dog were to develop a Leptospira infection to one of the serovars transmissible to man, the owner would be at greater risk of suffering a Leptospira infection
because his / her
dog was vaccinated!
That's
because the
vaccine debate crystallized in 2009 - 2010 when media hype created a pandemic leading to mass inoculation against H1N1 (swine flu) that passed as weirdly as it arrived... By 2010, savvy
dog breeders were rethinking
vaccine protocol and the public said «no way» to that year's drugstore signs «get your flu shots here» See display links.
Our animal hospital provides basic wellness services, including
dog vaccines, cat
vaccines, routine lab work and examinations for healthy pets -
because pets need regular check - ups too!
In addition, some senior
dogs may have an autoimmune disease and should not have vaccinations
because the
vaccines will challenge the immune system to work harder.
Because this flu is a new pathogen in
dogs, pets have no natural immunity and a
vaccine is not yet available.
You can start by grabbing our Free
Vaccine Guide to see if your
dog is at risk for health issues
because he's getting too many
vaccines.
The core
vaccines are those that should be given to all
dogs,
because they protect against serious and potentially fatal diseases that affect animals all around the world.
p. 12 «
Because dogs older than 14 - 16 wk of age are not likely to have interfering levels of MDA [maternally derived antibodies], administration of a single initial dose of an infectious
vaccine to an adult
dog can be expected to induce a protective immune response.
If she brings her
dogs to a groomer,
dog day care,
dog park or boarding facility, they should have this
vaccine, especially if they are older
because they would be more at risk.»
Even young
dogs benefit from a cleanse
because they get exposed to
vaccines, anesthetics and medication.
I agree to pay the owner surrender fee
because my
dog is not up to date on
vaccines, and / or on heartworm preventative and / or neutered or spayed.
You will receive a significant discount on medical costs for your new pet
because everything is included in the adoption fee: exam, spay or neuter surgery,
vaccines, heartworm test for
dogs, FIV / FeLV test for cats.
Take heed but for the
dogs you love, take careful aim with the needle
because most
vaccines are a shot in the dark!
Besides, he might be safer this way
because vaccines suppress the immune system for at least 10 days afterward, making your puppy potentially MORE likely to pick up disease from puppy class or the
dog park.
Breeders and show handlers still sometimes give their
dogs both the injectable and the intra-nasal
vaccine because kennel cough is such a problem on the show circuits.
But the sudden and devastating outbreak of parvo was
because the feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) that had long been present in
dog vaccines mutated to a form that could jump species and infect
dogs!
Because of this, many vets recommend revaccinating every six months for
dogs at high risk, although Dr Schultz has said that in order to have antibody protection you'd have to vaccinate with the four - way
vaccine four times a year.
And for
dogs it's even worse,
because they don't update the
vaccines every year so the shots don't keep up with mutations in the viruses.
In some cases,
dogs develop Lyme disease despite the
vaccine, or maybe
because of the
vaccine.
In other words, if your
dog was vaccinated for Lyme disease, this test won't falsely test positive just
because of the
vaccine, unlike the old tests out there.
Because you keep your
dog current on its
vaccines, it doesn't necessarily mean that other pet owners do (though we'd like to think that).
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He doesn't recommend giving lepto or Lyme
vaccines (and doesn't use these shots for his own
dogs, even living in lepto and Lyme endemic areas),
because of the high risk and low efficacy of these
vaccines.
In addition, the leptospirosis
vaccine is now recommended as a core
vaccine for
dogs in California
because the disease has the potential to occur in any
dog (even in urban environments), can be life - threatening, and the
vaccines are considered safe and efficacious, with recent improvements in safety over the last decade.
Although a rattlesnake
vaccine may be potentially useful for
dogs that frequently encounter rattlesnakes, currently we are unable to recommend this
vaccine because of insufficient information regarding the efficacy of the
vaccine in
dogs.
Owners of vaccinated
dogs must still seek veterinary care immediately in the event of a bite,
because 1) the type of snake is often unknown; 2) antibody titers may be overwhelmed in the face of severe envenomation, and 3) an individual
dog may lack sufficient protection depending on its response to the
vaccine and the time elapsed since vaccination.
Well under 1 % of those in rabies - mandatory locations failed to vaccinate their
dogs while 71 % of the
dogs who lived in places where rabies was not mandatory received the
vaccine, though to some extent that may have been
because the
dogs traveled across state or national borders.
If your
dogs are staying healthy without
vaccines it is probably as much
because most the other
dogs they come in contact with are vaccinated; if your
dog is never exposed through contact with an infected
dog or its excretions you can't really know if it has high natural immunity or not.
Because of the effectiveness of this
vaccine, Canine Infectious Hepatitis has become very rare in
dogs in the United States.
What's different about this variant is not that the
vaccine isn't effective against it, and not that adult
dogs can get it, too (they can get older strains of parvo, too, but incidence is much lower than in puppies
because adult
dogs are easier to vaccinate effectively), but that that virus has characteristics that make it harder to diagnose with the currently standard tests.
If your veterinarian is not an expert at reading such tests or doesn't offer the
vaccine as a treatment option, this is a waste of money
because there is no way to remove environmental allergens from your
dog's environment completely.
Because the virus is new (according to PetMD, it was first diagnosed in Florida in 2004), any
dog of any age and
vaccine profile can contract this virus (ASPCA).
But it's also
because of these same advances and the relatively strong «herd health» conferred by these
vaccines that we can, and must, start to take even greater steps towards minimizing and preventing the other side of the equations — the lack of socialization that is leading to the suffering, decreased quality of life, relinquishment, neglect, and euthanasia of far too many
dogs each year.
Abandoning
vaccines because of this low risk is putting your
dogs at the much greater risk for contracting one of the contagious diseases we vaccinate against.
If
vaccines can have the same effect in
dogs and a
dog gets sick
because of
vaccine - induced mutations in cells in its bone marrow, liver or lungs it will not pass those mutations on to its offspring.
That is
because the C6 antibodies are only present due to actual infection, not as a reaction to the
vaccine - very helpful for
dogs who have been vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
Thanks for posting that, CathyD, I saw your post just as I'd finished writing the exact same thing here:) I do stretch the time between
vaccines out
because my
dogs seem so lethargic after they have them done, but... I've got two reputable kennels here in my area, who will not board the
dogs unless all shots are within 1 year old and I've got the papers for proof.
The
vaccine is called the bordetella
vaccine because bordetella is the most common cause of upper respiratory infections in
dogs, according to VPI.
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