Our goal is the long term health and well being of our dogs. We take all necessary precautions to make sure we are doing the very best we can to provide them everything they need to thrive and maintain a healthy immune system. Our vaccine protocol begins after 18 weeks. We feel the safest option is to have the titers checked on our dogs to check their immunity levels and will re-vaccinate only as needed.Please read through all of the links listed on this page. These are very informative and will give you a better understanding of why over vaccination does more harm than good and why yearly vaccinations are causing our pets to become more and more ill.
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Puppies receive antibodies from their mother through the placenta and after they are born, through the colostrum (the first milk). The age at which puppies can effectively be immunized is proportional to the amount of antibody protection the young animals received from their mother. Antibodies are small disease-fighting proteins produced by certain types of cells called ‘B cells.’ The proteins are made in response to ‘foreign’ particles such as bacteria or viruses. These antibodies bind with certain proteins (antigens) on foreign particles like bacteria, to help inactivate them.
High levels of maternal antibodies present in a puppy’s bloodstream will BLOCK the effectiveness of a vaccine. When the maternal antibodies drop to a low enough level in the puppy, immunization by a commercial vaccine will work.
The antibodies from the mother generally circulate in the newborn’s bloodstream for a number of weeks. The complicating factor is that there is a period of time from several days to a couple of weeks in which the the maternal antibodies are too low to provide protection against disease, but too high to allow the vaccine to work and produce immunity. This period is called the window of susceptibility. This is the the time when despite being vaccinated, a puppy can STILL contract the disease.
This window of susceptibility. This is the the time when despite being vaccinated, a puppy can STILL contract the disease. This window of susceptibility can vary widely. The length and timing of the window of susceptibility is different in every litter and between animals in the same litter. Let us take the canine parvovirus as an example:
A study of a cross section of different puppies showed that the age at which they were able to respond to a vaccine and develop protection (become immunized) covered a wide period of time. At six weeks of age, only 25% of the puppies could be immunized. At 9 weeks, 40% of the puppies were able to respond to the vaccine and were protected. The number increased to 60% by 16 weeks, and by 18 weeks, 95% of the puppies could be immunized.
Since the length and timing of the window of susceptibility varies so widely, it is impossible for us to determine when is the best time to vaccinate each individual puppy. There are just too many variables. For this reason, young animals are given a series of vaccinations IN HOPES that we can vaccinate the animal as soon as it leaves the window of susceptibility.
While we are overloading our puppy’s immune system with vaccines IN HOPES of the vaccine working we are also opening them up to many vaccinosis afflictions!
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Lethargy, hair loss/thinning at injection site, hair color change at the injection site, fever, soreness, stiffness, refusal to eat, conjunctivitis, sneezing, oral ulcers.
Immunosuppression, behavioral changes, vitiligo, weight loss, reduced milk production, lameness, granulomas/abscesses, hives, facial edema, atopy, respiratory disease, allergic uveitis (blue eye).
Vaccine injection site sarcomas, anaphylaxis, arthritis, polyarthritis, HOD (hypertrophy osteodystrophy), autoimmune hemolytic anemia, immune mediated thrombocytopenia (IMTP), hemolytic disease of the newborn (neonatal isoerythrolysis), thyroiditis, glomerulonephritis, disease or enhanced disease which with the vaccine was designed to prevent, myocarditis, post vaccinal encephalitis or polyneuritis, seizures, abortion, congenital anomalies, embryonic/fetal death, failure to conceive.
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Your dog’s vaccines in MOST cases are good for 5-7 years in a healthy animal. Yearly vaccines are not necessary and there is absolutely NO scientific evidence or literature behind the need for yearly vaccines. Do your research!
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