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Originally Posted by Britster  Your vet was still recommending yearly vaccines? 
The only vaccines that are "needed" yearly are the 'optional/non-core' ones such as Flu vaccine, bordatella, etc. depending on your lifestyle.
But the Core vaccines such as Distemper etc has been recommended every 3 years for a long time now. Some vet clinics are moving to every 5 years. In the US, rabies is required by law every 3 years. |
Rabies is every 3 years here too. The optional bordatella one I’ve always said no to. But the core one is yearly. Every single clinic in town, and the vets that work at those clinics, recommends that one done yearly. I’m happy my new vet told me it’s not needed yearly despite the clinic itself having a different viewpoint. And my new vet also has different thoughts about and interpretation of the research about doing titers than my old vet did. So she has no problem with doing titers and knows how to interpret a titer test and what range the results should fall in to to suggest immunity. Like a number of my posts that I’ve made in the past, I’ve often expressed a strong doubt about how trustworthy vets are and these experts are supposed to have very similar training but I can get very different viewpoints from different vets on things. The idea of yearly vaccinations is one example. And the usefulness and merit of a titer test is another example. So it makes it hard for me to have much trust in vets, but I’m sticking with my new vet who told me “off the record” that I can do every 3 years instead of yearly. I wish there was similarity in the advice and recommendations I get from vets. Perhaps the research on vaccines is controversial. I don’t know. Maybe a vaccination schedule is best to be determined on an individual basis. But again I’m not an expert myself so I don’t know. But I do wish that more vets were similar in their recommendations, or could at least articulate in a way that makes sense why they may have a different viewpoint than what a different vet may have told me.