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Originally Posted by BJBEVSBABY3  My vet gives the amount of vaccine in accordance with her weight, sometimes making it necessary to split into two shots. I would rather give the shot and be safe than take a chance with her life. I just lost one little yorkie after 10 years of love and devotion. It was from a fast growing cancer, but we did give her shots when needed.
I agree we all are concerned with costs now and some vets do take advantage but I love this little dog and there are too many dogs running around that never get shots and we don't know what they carry. Someone brought up a good point when I told that my baby is a house pet and is not exposed to other dogs. They told me we carry things into the house on our feet from walking where dogs have walked even if our pet doesn't . Like the old saying, Better Safe than Sorry.
PS. Check other vets and ask the price of certain shots and the office call.  |
Although it is of course impossible to say why your pup died of cancer (RIP
) I wouldn't doubt if it was FROM over-vaccination. Lots of studies linking cancer to vaccines.
I will say that in personal experience, the longest living animals I knew were not given yearly shots, and the ones who died young-ish WERE. Of course that's a small % of dogs, but what I've noticed. Uncle had a Siberian Husky that probably didn't get shots except for at 1 year old and never again, and died at almost 16. Dads family dogs all lived to be 15-17, also hardly given any vaccines. My grandma's cat has had no vaccines since a kitten and he's healthy at 17, whereas her dog was loaded up EVERY year with everything under the sun and died of sudden cancer at 9. There's more but I won't list them all out -- just a trend I'VE personally noticed.