Are annual shots overkill!!!

[wolfsoul]

Rabies vaccines are NOT live virus.

You can get both killed and modified live rabies vaccines --- most people prefer live.

[Lady's Human]

The vet school links I looked at all listed the killed vaccine, nothing about a live vaccine.

[Suki Wingy]

still making up my mind. Untill then, he will continue to get his full set of shots. One thing I have to ask is:
He has a mild case of epilepsy, the vet never said if he'd always had it or whatever, but it only showed up after a few years of annual vaccines. My question is, could this have ANYTHING to do with his rabbies vaccine?

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I just found this thread...I've never heard of vaccinations causing behavioural problems. None of the articles mentioned are from scientifc journals...just my opinion, but I'm not going to take pet health advice from the Wall Street Journal or any other place then from a licensed veteranarian or a sound, peer reviewed scientific journal.

A while back there was a big fuss of the first MMR shot (I think it was this one anyway) supposedly causing autism. This was found to be erroneous, in fact autism is first displayed at around 15 months of age, around the time when the shot is administered.

My point is, you cannot create fact from a few examples of pets getting sick after being given shots. That is called anecdotal evidence.

[frawri]

I just found this thread...I've never heard of vaccinations causing behavioural problems. None of the articles mentioned are from scientifc journals...just my opinion, but I'm not going to take pet health advice from the Wall Street Journal or any other place then from a licensed veteranarian or a sound, peer reviewed scientific journal.

A while back there was a big fuss of the first MMR shot (I think it was this one anyway) supposedly causing autism. This was found to be erroneous, in fact autism is first displayed at around 15 months of age, around the time when the shot is administered.

My point is, you cannot create fact from a few examples of pets getting sick after being given shots. That is called anecdotal evidence.

First off I had to comment on the picture of your dog. That made me laugh. LOL As for fact or fiction, there are a lot of vets out there supporting not getting so many shots. They feel that too many of them all the time can cause the pet to get sick from them. They have done a lot of studies on this, and found them to be harmful in such high doses. Were not saying these things to get everyone riled up. Just to point out some facts.

[molucass]

Do you guys not even believe in giving the puppies their first shots, 6 weeks and up? Or is it strictly just the yearly shots that ya'll don't give?

Morgan turned 6 weeks old today, and is due for her first shot, but I'm not sure if I should take her to have it or not.

[wolfsoul]

I didn't used to believe in giving the shots at 6 weeks -- however, Visa's breeder has turned me over. They say that a pup keeps it's mother's immunity until 15-16 weeks -- then why did Visa and her littermates develop parvo at 5 weeks? Something that Marla was told could never happen. Spirit (the mother) was not sick a day in her life, she had been innoculated for parvo the year before and was titred two weeks before conception, showing that she was immune. So how is it that her puppies got parvo at 5 weeks? After that, Marla now gives the puppies parvo and distemper shots at 6 weeks. The vet thought that the puppies that died (not Visa and her siblings that lived) also had distemper (something else Spirit was immune to), as none of them died of parvo -- they died of heart failure and had distemper-like symptoms.

It just makes you think...

[.sarah]

Do you guys not even believe in giving the puppies their first shots, 6 weeks and up? Or is it strictly just the yearly shots that ya'll don't give?

Morgan turned 6 weeks old today, and is due for her first shot, but I'm not sure if I should take her to have it or not.

I would assume you know why vaccines are pushed to be given, so I can PM you some links against them if you'd like. Just let me know, I'm not on my computer right now so can't send them until later.