My experiences with vaccines for my dogs, for the most part, have been good. Some vaccines are needed to protect our furry families. However, I had an experience with my precious Golden Retriever Grace that ended in tragedy.
This is my opinion but I believe it wholeheartedly. Grace was an amazing and wonderful girl, and my best friend. She was energetic, sweet and smart and very well trained to name a few. Quite suddenly she stopped eating as well as she usually did and after a bit, enough to sound an alarm in my brain. Something is off, a Golden who doesn’t want to eat? I took her to my trusted Veterinarian for her to be checked out but she couldn’t tell me what was wrong, she did however say that she was due for some vaccines. I was hesitant not knowing what was wrong with her, “should I wait to get those?”” No, that won’t affect anything…” That was a moment that I have regretted for the years since. I should never have let her have those vaccines. Later that week, at the third Veterinarian appointment trying to figure out what was wrong with Gracie I found out that that summer on the south shore (Boston) there had been an alarming number of Retrievers, both Golden and Labrador who had died from a tick disease (Lyme nephritis) going straight to their kidneys. Grace was diagnosed with this after three different Doctors. Grace didn’t have the strength to have the vaccines (chemicals) run through her body…it made what she was already weakened by much worse, she was gone in less than a month. She was only 5 years old.
My advice and again this is my opinion, have a blood work panel done along with tick-borne diseases and heartworm tests and wait for the results before you vaccinate. When your test results are back and your pet has a clean report only then should you get the vaccines. I have told many of my clients this and honestly they have been grateful for it because their pets are their family. A little inconvenience is worth it…take it from me I wish that I had known that at the time.
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