Hi pet owners, have you been taking your dog/cat to the vet annually for check up and vaccines? Time is up for my 1 year old cat for his annual vaccines but I am not sure if he really need it every year. According to the reminder card from the vet, he needs:
- Palnleukopenia
- Rhinotracheitis
- Calicivirus
- Rabies
- Leukemia
When I did some googling, it seems a new idea is pets don't need to be vaccinated yearly. Think humans: We are immuned almost for life from the shots we got as babies. So why our pets need the shots so frequently?
The reason why I start to question the need for annual vaccinations is last year, my 9 year old cat devloped a lump at where she received her vaccine. It scared the heck out of me because the lump was hard and big. Luckily the thing disappeared by itself and not a Vaccine-associated sarcoma (common in cats.. please see http://www.itsfortheanimals.com/VAS.HTM)
By reading more, it become apparent to me over vaccinating can make our pets sick. So I think I am going to skip giving my pets shots every year but just annual check ups. I would like to see what are some pet-owner LYKs' thoughts on this?
my vet said for old indoor cats like mine, they don't really need vaccination. I should save up the money and do once every two years blood test instead.
its_visa, so your baby (a Shih Tzu rite?) gets its distemper, bordetella, parvo... etc yearly? That's my concern... do they need those shots that regularly? (like yearly or every 3 years). I
Fabric Little Bear, can you pm me your vet's name? Seems like a vet I'd like to switch my cats to. Thanks!!
I don't go to that vet any more. I stop taking my cats to that clinic because the original vet who ran it was retiring. Before I stopped going, so many vets were working there. So every time, I see a different vet. Some were good (like the one who told me about not need vaccines for older cats) but some not so. (like the one who charged me phone consultation without asking if it's ok or not)
I am wondering the same thing. I had my dog vaccinated last year because she was going to a dog hotel and they required all dogs be vaccinated on everything. I am thinking if I should skip this year..... for dogs I would want to at least keep rabies updated, but rabies is only once every 3 years.
嘉嘉 , is skipping Revolution okay? I thought that is one of the things I can't skip along with the rabies booster since it's getting warm and fleas are active. So all my cats and dogs have started their flea programs already (Dogs eat Program; cats get Revolution). My younger cat hatesss Revolution though. I am not sure if it was the smell or the liquid burns his skin or what... he'd dart around the house for 30 mins every time I applied it on him. Poor thing.
It is hard to find a good vet We had one really good vet for the past 10 years but she passed away. Since then, my pets have been floating away with different vets and I don't like that. Terra Nova Village vet in Richmond is expensive and Lansodowne hospital has at least three different vets (but their website only has info on one).
Sigh, it seems I am bringing my cat back to Lansdowne for annual exam and tell the vet no shots please.
嘉嘉 , is skipping Revolution okay? I thought that is one of the things I can't skip along with the rabies booster since it's getting warm and fleas are active. So all my cats and dogs have started t ...
kisstherain 發表於 2009-5-11 17:48
the answer really depends on the vet
some vets say yes some vets say no
some thinks eating raw meat is crazy, some thinks eating raw meat is healthy
so there are all kinds of answers.
I was used to do revolution for my dog, until I was reading about dog/cat death from revolution on the net
if I remember correctly from that website I read, there are about an average of 3000 dog/cat that dies from this "so-called medicine" every year
I then started to question about this thing
and my friend told me, her vet doesn't really suggest revolution (and they don't even sell it in the clinic), the vet would only recommend using advantage (he said it's less hard for the dog) for the dog during the 3 months of summer since that's when the little bugs are active. Now when I think about it more, I would rather take the risk of my dogs being bit instead of slowly poisoning them with the chemical every month. You just can't tell if it is the revolution that is harming our dog's body or not, but when you find out it's just all too late for the body to recover from long term exposure to chemical. I would rather let my dogs live a natural lives instead of relying on those chemicals.
發表於 2009-5-5 16:41
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Thanks!!
