rabbies vaccination

[mastiffmedic]

I understand everyones reaction and or opinion, I'm used to it. He got his rabies along with the other first round at 8 weeks. I'd much rather take my chance with the law than watch another dog die slowly.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Yes and no even if we do the "correct" things soceity still find a way.......sigh.

Pretty much, having worked customer service for more half my life my only "faith" in society is that it will react in as negetive and biased a way as possible....

 

[angelbears]

Damn if you do, damn if you don't. Very much a personal decision. Mastiffmedic, I would venture to say, without pulling up the research that more dogs die a year from the vax, then those dogs taken from a home and put down because they didn't have their rabies shot.

 

[tchvt]

If a dog bites and thier rabies wasnt current they are quarantined for 10 days to see if they show signs of Rabies if they are viscous anyways they will be put down and necropsied. The rabies virus is harbored in the hypothalmus which is a small gland in the brain so in order to test for rabies you have to euthanize and take the hypothalmus out of the brain and test it. After years of being in the vet field I am torn about vaccines. Puppies DHLPP there 1st 3 series the bordetella and the rabies then they are good for the 3 yr protocol for me unless you are boarding or showing and at high exporsure then maybe a bordetella or parvo yearly but thats it

 

[Smart_Family]

Here you'll be lucky if they let you quarantine an unvaccinated dog and even then chances are good the dogs going to get put to sleep even after the quarantine.

 

[Duetsche_Doggen]

Pretty much, having worked customer service for more half my life my only "faith" in society is that it will react in as negetive and biased a way as possible....

Ugh been there done that with CS brings out one of the worse in people, I don't care what they say the customer is NOT always right.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Here you'll be lucky if they let you quarantine an unvaccinated dog and even then chances are good the dogs going to get put to sleep even after the quarantine.

much the same here, dog's not vaccinated you're out of luck.

I don't LIKE giving regular shots, I'd really rather titer before automatically boostering, but with the 3yr schedule instead of single year, and rotating the shot location, and spacing out shots so that nothing goes in at the same time as anything else, its a risk I'll take because rabies is fatal. They come up with a reliable treatment for canines that WORKS and you bet your butt I'll be pushing for changes in laws and policies.....

 

[ruthcatrin]

Damn if you do, damn if you don't. Very much a personal decision. Mastiffmedic, I would venture to say, without pulling up the research that more dogs die a year from the vax, then those dogs taken from a home and put down because they didn't have their rabies shot.

The problem is quantifying whats a vaccination reaction and whats not (if dog comes from a breed prone to cancer anyways, was it the vaccine or was it the genes? And even if it WAS the vaccine, how much did the genes play a part?), though I imagine that dogs put down due to rabies ought to be easy enough to find if you do some digging.

Which doesn't mean I don't agree with you, just pointing out the problems of quantifying the issue *sigh*

 

[mastiffmedic]

In my area there is very little critter wildlife, other than birds, squirrels, chipmunks during the day and the occasional raccoon or possum at night, there isn't much for me to worry about. Until I see a rabid squirrel foaming at the mouth then maybe I'll rethink my judgment. IMO the chances of my urban dogs getting rabies is about the same as my kids getting tetanus.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Considering the last several cases of human rabies I recall hearing about were almost all urban based (with the big exception being an idiot soldier who didn't bother to tell anyone 'his' stray dog bit him till it was to late) I don't consider being urban to be anywhere near protection enough.

 

[Smart_Family]

We definitely aren't out in the boonies here and there is rabies on the Cape. The last couple cases have been human here as well. The issue with saying I'm in an urban area, rabies can't get me is that people come and go out of that urban area from suburban areas and rural areas and so do their animals. So a dog who now lives in an urban area could've lived on a farm and gotten bitten by a rabid fox and now that dog is walking down the same road you're walking down and for whatever reason snaps and bites your dog. That's pretty much a death sentence for both dogs. The last couple quarantines that we've done at work don't even make it to 10 days before they are euthanized regardless of their vaccination history.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Chapel hill NC isn't exactly rural, but just a couple weeks ago someone found a dead racoon in their yard: http://www.aconews.com/news/local/article_4ba87742-c162-11e1-bc93-001a4bcf887a.html turns out it was rabid.

Look, you feel its healthier for your animals not to get the vaccine thats your decision, but 'living urban' is NOT going to protect them from rabies.

 

[mastiffmedic]

I never said he's protected from rabies since we live in an urban area, what I said or meant was where I LIVE there's hasn't been a public case of rabies that I've heard of. AGAIN I'll say yes I'm gambling, more with the law and less with a chance of him getting rabies. And if that chance allows my EM to live a healthier and happier life, well I'll choose a healthier life versus giving him a shot full of toxins and cancer causing ingredients and hoping for the best.