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[chlema]

@Foxxee I do think we over-vaccinate our dogs.  I will titer before I allow Spencer to get another shot.  However, in my state dogs have to be vaccinated for rabies in order to get a license.  If you do not get a license then you will be fined, although they will not know that unless your dog bites someone.  

[SeaMaiden]

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@Sooner wrote:

Maybe it is the same reason that people are warned about:  lack of exercise, too much time indoors, and diet. Dogs have not been eating a basically human diet for that long back.  

Dogs lived a VERY different lifestyle even 60 years ago for the most part.  Maybe that is worth thinking about. . . Were they healthier then or now?  Maybe they are indoors and couch potatoes too much?  Like me!  

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@Sooner     and in nature, wild dogs did not live to be 10, 12 14 years of age  very often,... most lived 5-7 years...  I think technology and medicine has been both good and bad,,,inbreeding.... chemicals... toxins,,,, vacinations... unnatural food.... takes away from the good things about our pets lifestyles today.

[tends2dogs]

Overvaccination.

RoundUp.  It is in everything, it is everywhere.  

Flea, tick, and heartworm meds.

[MalteseMomma]

After my Cozi got all his first shots,i never got anymore shots.i did not use heartworm meds. but  I did use Frontline.

Cozi was just 5 yrs old .........

[SeaMaiden]

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@MalteseMomma wrote:

After my Cozi got all his first shots,i never got anymore shots.i did not use heartworm meds. but  I did use Frontline.

Cozi was just 5 yrs old .........

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@MalteseMomma That is just too young

[Lipstickdiva]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

@Lipstickdiva  So sorry, 3 is just too young for a dog to get cancer.

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@goldensrbest , she was a victim of very bad breeding.  She had a lot of medical issues that were passed down from her mom, who never should have been bread.  We thought we were going to lose her a year prior when she was diagnosed with a neuropathy that was definitely passed down to her.  She recovered from them and then got cancer.    It was heartbreaking.      

[Lipstickdiva]

I don't believe not vaccinating is the answer.  Ever see a dog stricken with parvo?  Or heartworm?

[tends2dogs]

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@Lipstickdiva wrote:

I don't believe not vaccinating is the answer.  Ever see a dog stricken with parvo?  Or heartworm?

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Yes, I had two dogs that had parvo in the 80's.  One was an 8 week old puppy and the other was our 7 month old puppy.  The older one had been vaccinated, but still contracted it from the 8 week old.  It was a terrible thing to watch them go through, but they both made it.

[goldensrbest]

My thoughts on vacations is this,yes get puppy vaccines, and a few others ,but once a dog is say 5, or 6 ,stop them, that is what i think, spirit only had rabie shot, cambridge turned 9 last year, she got the rabie shot,was sick for 3 days, that is what i know made her sick.

[Josmad]

The University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin have teamed up to study bladder cancer in certain breeds. They are finding that in a some breeds they think lawn chemicals are causing bladder cancer. I know they were studying Beagles and Scottish Terriers, but, I remember the other breeds,