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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I'm confused about all this talk about telling your vet what to do? As a pet owner, I told my vet I did not want yearly booster shots, I preferred to get titers. I also told him I didn't want the lepo shot on the advice of my breeder. Since when are giving shots some medical procedure? Diabetics give shots and little training is needed. Certainly an RN is qualified to give a shot and understand the dosage recommendations and need for quality control. All these things are legal as well. The only reason the rabies shot can’t be given by anyone other than a vet is because any time some disease effects the human population, special precautions have to be made to insure it’s done properly. Again, not saying that most breeders should give shots, but this wouldn’t affect my judgment on the breeder’s qualification as a good breeder one way or the other. |
I totally agree with this post. I am also a nurse but I took my dog to the vet to have his vaccinations done. If I ever decided to breed, which I'm not, I would totally feel qualified to give my puppies their vaccinations. I told my vet that I didn't want lepto and when I bring my new puppies home, I will do the same. I do the same with my personal care and the care of my family. I'm in the medical field and if I feel that something is wrong with what the MD has ordered, I speak up. I speak up with my patients if I feel the MD has ordered something in error because my license is on the line. Just because the doctor ordered something does not mean that I have to administer it. There would be many dead patients if this were the case. I'm not saying either way is right in regards to a breeder doing their own vaccinations, I'm just saying that a nurse is qualified to administer them. I'm sure she spoke with her vet about which vaccines to administer in the beginning. She's not diagnosing, she's just administering vaccinations.