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vaccinating your pets
Just come across this website, while Googling over vaccinating pets. I feel we as pets owners are made to feel by not allowing our pets each year to get vaccinated, that we are in the wrong.
Looking and reading on this website, I know I am not wrong. Please read
www.canine-health-concern.org.uk/
Looking and reading on this website, I know I am not wrong. Please read
www.canine-health-concern.org.uk/
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Sorry, just came back on here, after important calls.
If you go to the part Campaigns. Lots of info regarding vaccinations.
I do this for my dogs and don't suggest anyone else do it everyone must decide for them selves.
My vet sent out a reminder - then a reminder of the reminder - then gave up.
I am similar to you. Never have used kennels, and she doesn't mix much with other dogs. When I took Maisie, (she is 7 years old), to the vet 6 months ago, for check up, as she had not had a booster for 3 years, the vet said as she had not had a booster for that long she did give her a booster, then said, come back in 2 weeks for another. I felt torn about her having another one, but got it done. A week or so later she developed real itchy skin on her belly, she had to have some steroid cream, this made it worse. When the directions state you need to wear gloves to put the cream on, I got worried.
I stopped this and went back on line. That is when I found this site and ordered some natural cooling tablets. And from another natural place got some sulfer cream which did help clear it up eventually. Also I spoke to a chap at this website and he was very anti vaccinating a dog, except for their first puppy and just one more jab. I told him it had made her gums really pale. He said that could have been very dangerous. She is back to her normal self, and I try and keep as natural as possible.
Vets used to say do you want Frontline for your dog. I say no thanks, she does not mix much with dogs, and I give her a little garlic in her liver treats , which I make for her, She has never had fleas.. Also did I want her to have a jab for the flu. I said no thank you.
You are being scammed. Do not trust any site on any topic that says the professionals have got it wrong and then tries to sell you stuff. Particularly "natural" remedies. Natural means nothing. You are wasting your money.
I agree with that and there's very often little scientific evidence for these hoodoo remedies so I'd suggest sticking with the advice of a veterinary practitioner.
BIB. I too was worried when applying Max's steroid cream last week. The gloves are to ensure you don't dose yourself while applying the steroid cream - I asked.
Like Molliepops. I vaccinate my dogs up until around 8 and then stop. Although I do feel somewhat coerced into vaccinating and I am too scared not to until that age.
What on earth are natural cooling tablets. All that buying from random sites does is ensure you have absolutely no idea what you're giving your dog. I wouldn't source alleged "medication" for me online; I wouldn't do it for my cats, dog or rabbits either. Be careful that your wariness of vets doesn't lead you to source online crap that has no value whatsoever and may even cause your animal problems.
She won't necessarily pick up fleas from other dogs - just as likely she'll pick them up from the environment by rolling in the grass - ticks too. And, of course, ticks carry diseases which transmit to any host and that includes you.
It's easy to dismiss the massive industry that supplies vets with treatments for pets as just in it for the money but once you've had an animal that became seriously ill or die from the results of diseases that can be vaccinated against, you've learned a hard lesson. And so, of course, has the animal.
With annual vaccinations, if our dogs have had regular vaccinations for 7 or 8 years, because we live in the country and there are few other dogs around and they never go into kennels, we stop the annual vaccinations when they are about 9. But remember that vets cannot advise owners stop because it may be contrary to the manufacturers' recommendations and the vet may be liable if an animal subsequently gets sick. But you can always ask what they would do if their 9 year old dog (for eg) was up for booster shots.
Vaccinations for cats
Reminder that more and more vets are not doing annual vaccinations in the scruff of the neck any more but injecting in the haunch and, ideally, varying the side year on year. This is because the scruff of the neck is regularly assaulted with vaccinations, microchips, spot-on flea and worming treatments and with the identification of vaccine-related (or associated) fibrosarcomas which are aggressive and difficult to treat, the leg offers a better site for these regular injections.
These cancers are very rare but difficult to treat effectively when they occur. They occur mostly in cats, not dogs.
The only thing you really need to worry about is pet insurance as some wont pay out if the animal is not up to date with vaccs but then others they just wont pay out if the illness is a direct result of not being up to date.
Before continuing, my best understanding is that no matter what our views are on long term vaccinations, puppy jabs and 1st annual booster are beyond question.
After that, I wanted to read up enough to judge what the vet wants to do when we go in for her annual MOT. I checked the vaccine manufacturer name off her paperwork and googling up the manufacturer revealed the recommended schedule.
For our particular brand, Canigen, I found that only Lepto-2 is needed annually and the combined DHP (distemper, hepatitis and parvovirus) booster is every 3 years.
So if we are to follow manufacturer specifications I expect only Lepto-2 to be due which, just one this time, I think I can go happily go along with.
Then again there is research like this that says actually after year 1 a dog is immunized for 7 years and anything in between is unnecessary.
http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/lifelong-immunity-vets/
There is one other factor to bear in mind. Check every piece of small print in your pet insurance policy, because failing to have up to date vaccinations may void any cover for related conditions.
Personally I haven't entirely made my mind up for the future, I think I'll just take each year as it comes and hold out for more research on the subject. I also intend to find out what the vet has to say about titre testing, where the level of immunity a dog has to a virus can be tested from a blood sample. Or even if they offer it. If it wasn't for the insurance (or kennel/daycare) problem titre testing seems like the way forward for me, allowing an informed decision as to whether the dog would actually benefit from further vaccination at that time.