Wow....I am surprised at people's repsonses. Is it any wonder we have such poorly socialized puppies/dogs.
I don't vaccinate my pups/dogs and I take them EVERYWHERE with me. NOw, I am still smart about it. I don't take them to public dog parks...but then I don't take my dogs to those at ANY time.
Now..if your puppy is just arriving by air etc...then likely it's immune system will be a bit stressed. This is natural. Thus, I would want to make sure that I now provided some experiences that are less stressful. When the immune system is taxed then they can be more succeptable to things. HOWEVER, I highly DOUBT your girlfreinds dog is going to be a problem. Is the dog healthy? Had any health issues? If not, then there should be no problems!! DOesn't matter if they have had vaccines in the past few years. In fact, your puppy might be a bit more at risk if the dog did as they would be shedding the recent vaccine into the environment and thus could come in contact with that.
EVEN Then....that is one of the BEST ways for a puppy/dog to gain natural immunity provided they are healthy and not overly stressed to begin with.
If you guys truely beleived that an unvaccinated dog is at risk of 'giving' something to a vaccinated dog, then you need to do some homework. The unvaccinated dog is likley healthier, provided they have been taken care of, are not "on the street" scaveging for food etc.
My pups are around unvaccinated dogs all the time. They live with them.
HOw old is the puppy?
An owner that neglects to take her dog to the vet, also probably doesn't worry about flea/tick prevention and certainly doesn't have her dog on heartworm prevention medicine
That is a huge assumption and a wrong one in my opinion. Sounsd like it actually could be a smart owner.
I understand that so much of what 'we believe' has been drilled into us for a long time by the veternarian community for years. However, they are not always correct assumptions.
and all it takes is one mosquito to cause the deadly heartworm disease.
This is not true either. Here is some information.
Heartworm:
Dr. Ray Dillon, a well known heartworm researcher at Auburn University
School of Veterinary Medicine, several years ago attempted to parasitize stray dogs taken from animal control facilities in Mississippi (according to pound seizure laws).
To give a meaningful comparison, when dogs that are bred for research are given 100 HW microfilaria, 97-99 typically become adult worms in the dog's heart and pulmonary arteries. These 4-5 year-old strays, who had been thoroughly tested and found hw free and free of antibody or antigen, averaged 3-5 adult worms from a 100 microfilaria dose.
Thus, Dr. Dillon realized the dogs had to be immune to survive into
adulthood in such a HW endemic area. I'd guess this supports the contention that stressors, especially vaccination, render dogs more susceptible to HW infestation (as well as to parvovirus, etc.).
The "preventative" is the treatment and given at a high dose IF
the dog is loaded with heartworm it can be dangerous but you do need the heart worm "preventative" (same drug as the treatment by regular vets).
Best to have heart worm test done in the spring. the heartworms
would not be advanced enough to show up in the test if done in the fall. So a test in May would be the best time to test. natural treatments available that are inexpensive as well.
But remember that a raw fed dog in good condition has a defence
Immune system that will protect the dog naturally.
"In a study entitled "Seasonal Timing of Heartworm Chemoprophylaxis
(Heartworm Meds) in the United States", Dr. David Knight and James
Lok of the American Heartworm Society have taken the guesswork out of
When to start and stop heartworm prevention. It was found that specific
conditions must exist in order for the larvae in the mosquito to
move on to stage L3, allowing the mosquito to pass on heartworm through
its mouthparts. The larvae require approximately 30 consecutive days of
60-degree weather where the temperature does not dip below 57F
(14C) in order to reach this condition.
Simply put, it must stay above 60 degrees for 30 consecutive days
AND nights for the larvae to progress to stage L3 and be passed through
the mouthparts of a mosquito to a host animal. If the temperature
dips below 57F the maturation is retarded and cannot continue. This
process would become accelerated if there were two weeks of temperature at or above 80F (27C), days AND nights. As a result, heartworm disease is not only geographically limited, but also seasonally limited."
Shelley
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