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Originally Posted by Britster  Kids, and babies, are usually vaccinated, yes, but not EVERY YEAR. At least nobody I know. You get the usual shots as a baby, up until 2-3 yrs old and then get a shot before starting grade school, and then maybe before starting middle school. My last shot was probably when I was like 9 or 10 and I'm now almost 20. No human that I know gets vaccines every year, unless people do the flu shot, but most I know don't even do that. Titers prove that there is still vaccine in a dogs system years after their 1 year boosters... so I don't know what 'fad' that is, it's more like fact.
The *only* vaccine required my LAW is rabies. Bordatella is optional; I chose to give it to Jackson a few months ago because he had kennel cough last year and I'd prefer to prevent it, since we frequent the dog park and are always around other dogs. He got DHLPP at 12 weeks old and had a terrible reaction to Lepto (he's also bigger, was 6lbs at 12 weeks old). So he got DHPP for his third and final puppy shot. Then we went back at 1 year old, and got the DHPP booster. My vet told me it's good for 3 years, sooo... I don't know about this every year stuff. Even when we had dogs growing up, they never got them every year, it was always every 3 years, as is Rabies. But the others are not required by law. |
true about kids only getting it as children...but i have never heard that the DHPP or the other ones could last 3 years and im not sure i would believe it unless a vet told me that...and i do all my own vacs
on the fact/fad i have never ever heard this until YT..and YT just like i had never heard the holistic, and raw until yt and all of this has been pretty recent...id say 2 years or so...i have been vaccinating my own pets for years, working in a rescue for years (off n on) i worked at a vets for a while and never came across this "talk"
as for vaccinating in the leg..never seen that..i have seen them take blood that way but not vaccinate..you vaccinate behind the neck or on the rump.
yes i know rabies is the only lawful vaccinated required as i stated
BUT if you are going to board your pet and groom the bordatella IS required and if your pet needs surgeries he/she is required to be current on all vacs..and my understanding of current is yearly..id rather be prepared
JMO