My vet does them sub-q but in the hind legs. Reason being is that they was some research awhile back that there was a higher incidence of tumors developing at shot locations (or something with tumors and shots it was awhile ago they told me this..dr shelli can you comment on this). as they used to do them in the neck but they found that if the tumors form in the neck its harder to treat than the rear legs and if worse comes to worse they can always amputate a rear leg and the dog can be ok...not so much at the neck level. Both my vets so this approach.
vaccinating my dogs myself ?
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It is a bigger problem in cats almost never see it in cats but the protocol was suggested of both. But yes the protocol is to give the vaccines low in the leg also there are set recommended sites ie rabies -right rear leg, distemper in the right front leg etc. It does a couple things if a problem is occuring such vaccine reaction(local swelling or pain) or tumor formation, you can tell what vaccine is causing it by the site, people were giving all the vaccines in the same site ie the scruff and that causes more site reasons and potential tumors formation and the limbs are more easily surgical managed if something does grow.