Well, one reason is that a dead patient doesn't bring in money anymore. :-)
You may want to look it up, but I've read that the number of polio cases actually went up after they started vaxing for it. Holisticat had some innovative ways to deal with mandatory rabies vaxes. You may want to Google their archives. On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yes, I know that but the dim wits who make the Animal Control laws in > Texas refuse to recognize it. A titer costs a whole lot of $$$ for that > reason and I'm not sure the authorities would even recognize it as > sufficient. The vets make money on the vaccinations every year. Why > should they stop a good cash cow (or cat)? > > > > Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty > neighbors too! > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Kathryn Hargreaves <khargrea...@gmail.com> > *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > *Sent:* Sunday, October 7, 2012 12:58 AM > *Subject:* Re: [Felvtalk] Vaccinations > > Can you get a titer instead of vaxing for rabies each (three) year(s) or > does your law not allow that? > > Also, I'm sure you know that 1-year and 3-year rabies vax are the same > contents with different labels. And that experiments have shown the > rabies vax lasts at least 7 years, if not for life. > > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > This is just an opinion stemming from a human experience with > vaccinations. I almost died from the whooping cough vaccination when I was > 9 years old. Again, when the Salk vaccine came out, my father, a physician > gave me the anti-polio vaccination. Now, I do approve of polio > vaccinations since it's such a dread disease and the vaccination did almost > completely wipe it out in the USA. However, the vaccine contained an error > and some of the virus was not killed. I got a mild case of polio and have > had some minor nerve damage on my right side ever since. It doesn't > improve with age, either. So I do NOT vaccinate my cats. Not with FeLv or > FIV or anything but rabies (it's the law). I do have to vaccinate with the > FVRCP vaccine when I know that one of my rescues will be going for adoption > though. But I never vaccinate for leukemia. If you have kittens who need > the FVRCP for adoption, then you do it. But if you are keeping them, I > would advise not to do it. And try not to get them vaccinated at the time > that you are getting the spay/neuter operation for a cat or dog. No > medical doctor ever gives a human patient a vaccination before surgery. > It's terribly dangerous and I really resent vets who do that to people's > pets. However, sometimes you need to get the rabies shot at the time of > s/n surgery because you are using a low cost clinic and you have a feral > cat who can't be trapped twice. So you have to do both at the same time. > But ferals who are outside don't really need any other vaccination once > they are neutered/spayed.I also really resent the new FIV vaccination that > turns negative cats positive on tests and jeopardizes their lives should > they get lost and then tested by the person who finds them. > > > Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty > neighbors too! > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > -- ---------------------------- Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster "bottle baby" shelter animal, to save their life. Contact your local pound for information. <http://www.laanimalservices.com/volunteer_fostercare.htm> If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and to free up cage space. Ask your local animal pound to start saving over 90% of their intake by implementing the No Kill Equation: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/no-kill-equation/<http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/> Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities: http://www.nokillhouston.org/no-kill-shelters-in-north-america/ Legislate better animal pound conditions: http://www.rescue50.org More fun reading: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/guides/ More fun watching: http://vimeo.com/nokill/videos especially http://vimeo.com/48445902 Local feral cat crisis? See Alley Cat Allies' for how to respond: http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=537
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