RE: OT-Rabies Vaccine

[Roxane Baldwin]

Unless it changed (last checked was 2005), the state of Iowa doesn't have a law dealing with feline vaccines, canine yes(rabies only).

My FIV & Felv will not have another vaccine ever.  I'm just so upset because this vets office and others make it sound like it is the law to have every vaccine out there and that is so not true.  I've been trying to find some set standard but your right, with all the different state laws, you cannot find any information on standards.

I just have my blood boiling.

Thanks for your reply : )

 

Roxane

Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

3 year and 1 year are very similar in their dosage according to my vet.. but 3 year has a bit more--- so she did not mind using it for dogs and was still not comfortable for using cats .. if you think about it.. a 70 lb dog gets the same dosage of rabies vaccine as a 6 lb of cats which is very scary..

 

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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:24 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: OT-Rabies Vaccine

 

every state's regs are different--but many DO require an annual shot; around here (mid-Michigan), they're only giving the one-year shot.... (i don't have the citation, but i've heard that, in reality, the 3-year and the 1-year are actually the same dosage--anyone know anything about that?)

 

my vets never used to check whether my cats were vaccinated for rabies, but now they are requiring proof if i bring in one they haven't seen the paperwork on before....

 

 

On 7/10/06, Roxane Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I just had an upsetting phone call with my vets office.  They are going from a 2 years rabies vaccine to a annual rabies vaccine for cats, it is now 3 years for dogs.  I thought that there was only one type of rabies vaccine and it was a 3 year shot.

With the study that Jean Dodds is trying to put together, I would think that vet offices would wake-up to the dangers of over vaccinating.

Does anyone  know if this annual vaccination is a new standard for felines or is this just my vet?

I'm sorry this is OT but with a canine with an auto-immune disorder because a vet over vaccinated her, I get very upset when they tell me I need to vaccinate more. 

Roxane,
Horton, Iowa

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