lissapell":7fcjbe3x said:
The projection cost of the vaccine is under 10.00 and expected to be administered around 10-12 wks after the maternal antibodies wear off and then again 4-6 wks later. After that it would be administered as a booster.
Years ago I had a dog and a cat get cancer within a year of each other. I took my dog to a holistic vet (chemo would have cost my vet $400 or $600 per dose
his cost, had to be administered monthly, and even with that he gave her 6 months), and he asked about my vaccine protocol. At the time, being a "good pet owner" and employee of a veterinarian, I vaccinated at 8, 12, and 16 weeks, and yearly thereafter.
He told me that was probably why they both had cancer. His protocol was to vaccinate once between 12-16 weeks for each disease found in our region, preferably with non-combined vaccines given a week apart. Some of his clients liked to vaccinate their animals once again in their geriatric years. He followed the law for rabies (canine) administered at six months, one year later, and every three years thereafter.
The incidence of cancer in his patients was very low.
lissapell":7fcjbe3x said:
There are so many different strains the vaccine (she believed was a dead vaccine)would only be cover the ones most commonly found.
That is also the case with bordetella in dogs. Did you happen to read the link I posted about that?
lissapell":7fcjbe3x said:
I am not a vaccination advocate so i am very leery about the idea.
Get ready for a
fftopic: (kind of) :soap:
I have a healthy distrust of vaccines, to say the least.
I believe that the incidence of immune response disorders such as allergies and asthma are directly correlated to vaccine use, as is the recent rise of Alzheimers in the elderly population... flu vaccine, anyone? :roll:
I also believe that the rise in behavioral disorders such as ADD, ADHD, and the skyrocketing rise of children on the autism spectrum are a result... the number of vaccines given to this generation of children is staggering compared to what I was given as a child 40 some years ago.
My kids have never been vaccinated. They are the healthiest kids around. They never suffered from ear infections as infants, which seems almost epidemic, and they rarely ever get sick. They have only had antibiotics a handful of times in their lives, and are now 16, 14, and almost 11.
My only worry is chicken pox- if not contracted as a youngster, the pox virus can be very dangerous for adults. Unfortunately, since most people vaccinate for it, I was never able to find a child with it to expose my kids to.
Another problem with the fact that children are vaccinated against chicken pox is that in order to have immunity to the shingles virus, adults need to be exposed to children with chicken pox, so we will see a rise in the cases of shingles in the adult population.
I haven't vaccinated our last few dogs at all except for rabies as required by law. My JRT did get the Rattlesnake vaccine which is of course venom based, but a lot of good it did him, since he was killed by a rattler.