ClantyreSheltie
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What gets me is that there isn't anything out there, in humans or dogs, on the long-term side effects. If the dog doesn't show an immediate severe reaction, or doesn't drop dead in the first 48 hours, it doesn't count.
We stopped giving the Lyme vaccine when a sheltie we knew had a reaction that looked like DM (Sheltie-skin syndrome, not mange). I have two dogs with Lyme, and I would rather manage real lyme than create vaccine-induced lyme.
I have decided the immune system is a seriously powerful thing, and we don't know a lot about it. So the less I mess with it, the better.
We stopped giving the Lyme vaccine when a sheltie we knew had a reaction that looked like DM (Sheltie-skin syndrome, not mange). I have two dogs with Lyme, and I would rather manage real lyme than create vaccine-induced lyme.
I have decided the immune system is a seriously powerful thing, and we don't know a lot about it. So the less I mess with it, the better.
). It was almost 7 weeks by the time he made it to the vet, because he came home on a Saturday, and there's no weekend vet. So he got two rounds of puppy shots. One at about 7 weeks, and one at about 9 weeks. Then at 12 weeks he got a parvo shot and nothing else. Then at 16 weeks he got a rabies shot and started on heartworm medicine. Fluffy started on heartworm medicine when she was 10 weeks at her first vet visit. Smudge's first vet was more than a little loopy. That's what happens when you have teenagers highlighting as vet techs who would rather stay on their cell phones than actually work.
They listed Fluffy's bordatella and distemper seperate. At the new vet they have each individual item listed on your invoice. Like checkup, the name and quanity of each shot, and every little thing they did. At the old vet (the one Smudge went to) you just a piece of paper saying the amount and that you had paid it. 