Please, please, please, please, please vaccinated your dog. Please. I beg you. If you love them. If you care about them. For your dog’s own sake, please vaccinate them.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Fair enough. There are special cases. But they are very rare. The vast, vast majority of dogs can tolerate vaccines.

    This is also true in humans, by the way. There are very rare cases of humans, generally with allergy issues, who can’t take common vaccines. But in general, you should vaccinate yourself and you should vaccinate your pets.

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      1 year ago

      yes this is what I was trying to get at. I think a lot of the vaccine denial crap use examples of edge cases. folks that have medical issues that do not apply to the vast majority. Most people live their lives without ever owning a dog like this. And we still get the rabies if her titer shows down (as long as she has not had diarrhea in awhile we and her can handle a few days of it.). We just go through the additional expense of the titer and oh man ticks are the worst. She never gets to go to brushy or forested areas and gets regular tick checks and when we have found them we remove them and get them sent off for testing which is more expense. If I could snap my fingers and have her healthy like all the rest of our dogs I certainly would.

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        Antivaxxers also use a ton of correlation, like the timing of autism becoming noticeable for most kids and certain scheduled shots. Combined with edge cases and absolutely no sense of scale and people not remembering most of the diseases that vaccines have made extremely rare, it is easy for people to ignore the safety and successes.