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Originally Posted by jackson25

Me too! Has your vet advised you of the immunities in momma's milk and what those antibodies from momma's milk does for the puppy? Not at all saying you have to change your way's, just asking.

Oh yes my Vet did tell me all about that ! As we all know 2 or 3 week old pups don't seem to get parvo because the mom has given them the natural immunity---I'll try to explain how my Vet did--he used a graph I'll used numbers since I can't do a graph on this --- say at birth pups nurse and their immunity is at number 10 but each day as they get older the number drops 9-8-7-6 etc. And say at number 5 this is moms ammunity is gradullly going away--by number 4 the pups are at risk of Parvo--distemper etc. then they are exposed to something---then WHAM ! Sick pups. Ok the hard part is figuring out when the pups are getting to 5 and vaccinating. This is different with every pup---if ya have a litter of yorkies say 3 pups---they will get more of the first milk that has the "good stuff" that prevents Parvo etc. and say you have a litter of Dobermans say 10 pups those 10 pups don't get as much "good stuff" or first milk and they could get below that number 5 real fast. Of course this all depends on if your pups are exposed to Parvo-distemper etc. SOOOO one must gamble so to speak--when to vaccinate ! In Oklahoma we have big outbreaks of Parvo---distemper is almost unheard of (as far as I know here). We live in Very rural Oklahoma--coyotes, fox- and other animals carry and die of Parvo. I'm not much of a Gambler--so I vaccinate, Dr. Robert (BOB) Page developed an wonderful parvo vaccine(he and someone else--I think it was Dr. Black not sure on this ) called Neopar Parvo vaccine. I traveled to Tennesse to visit Dr. Page and he is the one that told me to vaccinate my puppies at 5 weeks old as his vaccine over rides the mothers antibiodies and causes the puppy to develope his own immunity. I'm sure Dr. Page can explain it sooooo much better than I can. So this is my feelings on the matter--we live in a parvo prone area. I vaccinate with neopar vaccine at 5 weeks old and at 7 weeks old. Then when I take pups to the Vet for health papers they are safe if a parvo dog is at the vet that day. Or when I ship a puppy it's safe from being exposed by some other puppy thats being shipped the same day as my pups. If puppies are exposed to parvo--you wont need to worry about allergies, cancer, or anything else as they will be dead withen 3 or 4 days at most. May be sooner. Parvo is DEADLY !! My daughter worked at a Vet, I've assisted my Vet in birthing, some C-sections--other things that's happened over the last 28 years and a lot has happened believe me ! I've used and still use several vets. Some are excellent on cleaning teeth, some excellent on c-sections---But none come close to Dr. Page understanding vaccinations !!! NONE OF THEM . I hope this explains my OPINION !
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