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Originally Posted by roseylovestosho  I think she read that. I think she means that she doesn't understand why a vet would vaccinate even if the dog appears only slightly sick. The first vet I went to also said to me that it was only a couple days before the distemper shot so we will go ahead and do it, along with the bordatella and lepto shot. The vet even said to me that lepto was prevalent in our area so I believed her. She was about to ALSO give him the rabies vaccine when I stopped her and told her my dog was not old enough for the vaccine. She then corrected herself and said that it was a clerical error and that the front office staff probably just wrote Teddy's age wrong. I believed her and I let her give my dog all those vaccines at once. I knew that the lepto vaccine was iffy but I read that if its prevalent in your area then the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the costs. Yeah well, the joke was on me because when I went to another vet they told me that they do not vaccinate for lepto because it is extremely uncommon even in our area and that he believes that the vaccine does more harm than good...so who knows what the right answer is? All I know is that ever since I went to the first vet my dog has been coughing and it hasn't stopped. |
I asked him about two shots at once too, because my other vet will not give multiple shots at once to a small dog because he said it's better to wait and have a two week period in between. However, this vet told me that the rabies had no side effects, that only the distemper did. I do not have a lot of vaccinations done with my dogs because I'm afraid of reactions etc. I only do what is required by law. I do not believe in all those vaccinations. I think they cause more harm then good and mine do not go outside much, just in our fenced yard and only with me. And, they are not around other animals. I'm sorry I let the vet give her the shots. I agree they should not have been done. I do not think they contributed to her being sick though and I spoke to the other vets about this as well. I will not take her back to the vet that gave them to her. I will continue to ONLY use these two as I have always done. It still does not negate the fact that Mia was sold sick though.