there have been several important things brought up....... one is the rabies vaccine. It is a law that i have to have a rabies vaccine for toby, HOWEVER, there HAS NOT been a rabies case in my area for some time
seriously, rabies is not common here, it does not run rampant and i dont think that it is because "most poeple vaccinate against it" because even wild animals have not been known to have it in this area. as far as the vaccinations go, how is one to build up immunities unless one is left to deal with it naturally? There has been some controversy about vaccines causing cancer later on down the road too... some vets make the decision that it "is better safe than sorry" and in this case OVER vaccinating . What happens if you were to get a bunch of flue shots when you allready had an immunity to it?
I think that our level of health care has greatly increased, and this is a good thing. Humans live longer now than they did before, but they are also more sickly. New virus strains that are WORSE are coming about by mutating and becoming "immune" to vaccines (this is scary)
I dont think that it is just dogs either...... i think this extends to people. I have seen people go to the doctor for simple COLDS, why? they will get over it and develop and beef up their immune system. and now we have scary things like cancer, and aids, and luekemia, and all these other diseases
It's a scary world we live in
