[Ellie May]

I think it's great that vets are starting to titer and not vaccinate so often.
Vaccinating every year for everything is not really based in solid science at all.
I really like Dr. Dodds and Dr. Schultz and support the Rabies Challenge Fund, etc. That said, this protocol is not perfect. None are.

The problem with relying on low titers to tell you if your dog needs a booster is that a low titer only means that there is very little humoral immunity. That doesn't mean that there is no cellular immunity. Over time titers naturally fall and it does not mean that the dog is unprotected. So I think it is a good starting place to not vaccinate every year but just remember low titer doesn't always equal no protection...

I can tell you that this protocol does not work with Ellie for distemper. Her titer came back low a couple years ago. She was revaxed and the next year the titer had went up but it was on the line of being low (1:32). It probably dropped more this year, so if it's low and I follow the above protocol she will have to be revaxed again. It is very highly unlikely that she is unprotected though and needs this every other year. So that is the frustrating thing with titers. I know Dr. Schultz looks at titers a bit differently and the number would have to be very low for a revax with him but since the common labs like Idexx have their own idea of what a high and lower titer is, it can get irritating.