It's not so much the individual vaccine as that they give them all at one time.
Imagine getting zapped with 3 or 4 different illnesses at one time - flu,
measles, mumps and chicken pox!! Your immune system goes into overdrive and
then crashes because no one can fight all those infections at once. That's
what is done to our cats when they get the FeLV, rabies and FVRCP vaccinations
at one time on top of which they are undergoing surgery to remove their
reproductive system. Whew!
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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From: Kathryn Hargreaves <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Vaccinations
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 <[email protected]> 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)?
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>Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty
>neighbors too!
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>From: Kathryn Hargreaves <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 12:58 AM
>Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Vaccinations
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>Can you get a titer instead of vaxing for rabies each (three) year(s) or does
>your law not allow that?
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>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.
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>On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
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>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.
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If you can't adopt, then foster "bottle baby" shelter animal, to save their
life. Contact your local pound for information.
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/
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
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