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Vaccine question Hi all, I'm new here. I have an 18-week-old yorkie mix pup and brought her yesterday for her first vet visit. I said when I booked the appointment that I wouldn't be having my dog get the rabies shot at the visit as I wanted just the DA2P vaccine and would have her get the rabies shot separately as that is safer. So when I went into the exam room I saw that they had already drawn both vaccines. I told the vet I'd only be having my dog get the DA2P vaccine at that visit and after a bit of a disagreement over that she agreed and walked out with one of the needles. The thing is, now I'm being paranoid that maybe my dog didn't get the right vaccine. I didn't get a good look at the needles to see if they looked different, but they were sitting right next to each other and so I'm wondering how the vet could tell them apart. Does one have more in it or do they typically have different coloured plungers or something to differentiate them? |
Hmmm...good question, actually. I'm sure there must be some way that they differentiate them...? You may want to just call and ask to speak w/ a vet tech though, and ask this very question bc it's a good one. And GOOD FOR YOU for advocating for your kiddo and insisting on getting rabies separate. What a good Momma. :) And WELCOME to YT! |
I believe rabies often has a red tint. |
Thanks for the replies and the welcome :) I do remember that both needles seemed to have a pinkish colour which also worried me in the first place. I kind of feel really stupid and horrible right now because in the course of trying to do what was right I feel like I might have made things worse ugh. I'm not going back to that vet and I politely let them know that yesterday, so I'm worried about calling back and looking like a crazy person. There was another point we disagreed on and unfortunately she seemed unable to express her opinions in a professional and respectful manner. It all came down to her going to school for 9 years and so she must be right and at one point she even asked me if I knew what such and such word meant and when I said no she said, "I proved my point," or something along those lines. That's when I lost all respect for her is when she purposely tried to belittle me. Plus she gave my dog a very cursory examination, never asked any questions about elimination, eating, etc. She flat out said I was wasting my time and her time and my money by coming in. |
Well, I couldn't live with my twisting stomach anymore about it so I asked a vet tech at the hospital and they said they have two safety procedures they follow for labeling. One is that they leave the sticker for the vaccine on the needle until after it is administered and then they transfer it to the pet's record sheet. I know there were already two stickers on the paper, but I think each vaccine comes with two stickers, so there are four stickers that eventually go on the sheet once both vaccines are administered. The second safety measure they have is to put an R with marker on the end of the Rabies syringe. So now I can sleep better tonight knowing my dog is properly protected for parvo and distemper :) |
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