Just to further booster (hahahaahhah....) the importance of the AAHA's guidelines, and a good question for your vet John, would be to ask your vet if she/he is affiliated with the AAHA. Which, IMO, (and many others I know) is the one of the highest quality associations to become accredited with.
Connie, it's not like you (lol )must be the weather all joking aside. years ago i saw a puppy dying of pravo at a vet's office i never wanted a dog to go through that. i would rather be safe than sorry imo.
But you do realize.... that once you've vaccinated for parvo multiple times, he's likely covered for life? Titers are MUCH safer then the revaccinating. Did you read the first link?
I've seen dogs die of Parvo, distemper, and other terrible diseases. It's hard. It sucks, it's not something you'd EVER want to happen to your own pet. If there is an even safer way then just automatically revaccinating, then I don't see why someone would not want to explore this opportunity. JMHO.
"I would rather be safe then sorry" ..... Titers, in some instances, are SAFER then revaccination. It's proven.
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Annual boosters are NOT a matter of "better safe than sorry." That's the whole point.
Annual boosters canNOT make a dog "more immune."
There is a reason (many reasons, actually) for the updated protocols. And not a single one of them endangers a dog who was protected under the old guidelines. The reasons are are all related to making dogs safer and healthier .... they are related to correcting the mistaken belief that "more is better."
Connie, your asking a lot. i just learned to type up to 10 words a minute, now you want to throw reading in the mix. (lol Not trying to be a jerk , why does Dr's recommend a annual flu shot? which i get every year. or vet's push west niles shots for horses yearly one vet i used gave w niles 2 times a year the another vet believed that was over vax i will give my vet a call and ask about the new guide lines thanks john
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(Associations are probably as hard to herd as committees. )
I’ll bet if they brought that 14 week old Border Collie in for a yearly titer he’d have em all rounded up and in a forward thinking consensus in no time.
Yeah, that’s it, we need Border Collies in our board rooms (and let’s not forget the airports).
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why does Dr's recommend a annual flu shot? which i get every year. or vet's push west niles shots for horses yearly one vet i used gave w niles 2 times a year the another vet believed that was over vax i will give my vet a call and ask about the new guide lines thanks john
Again, this is about understanding the nature of how a vaccine works in the body.
Some vaccines--the influenza vaccine for humans, for example--provide antibody protection for about a year. Therefore, an annual flu shot makes medical sense.
In your dog, a vaccine against parvo provides antibody protection for many years. Same with many other infection vaccines.
You don't get a polio vaccine every year, right? Or a tetanus shot every year. Just like some medicines you take once a day, some you take four times a day. This is not that hard.
You don't have to be a scientist to understand this. That's what you pay a good vet for.
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