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Angelica (Los Angeles, CA) on 12/03/2008: 
Pamela Whitney (Corrales, NM) on 12/01/2008:
This was a perfectly adjusted puppy, happy, playful, not fearful of anything. The new owner reported that he was skiddish, shy and would not walk through doorways. Everyone has been perplexed by this new and strange behavior. A dog trainer was brought in, and stated that this dog had genetic defects. But neither parents demonstrated this behavior, nor did the puppy prior to getting the rabies vaccine.
My internet research has determined that behavior problems are a side effect of a vaccine. It also uncovered that the same amount of vaccine is given to all dogs regardless of their weight and size! All 27 Vet schools are re-examining their vaccine protocols.
I sold a beautiful, happy, well-adjusted puppy who is now coming back to me three weeks later a different dog.
One size fits all vaccines can ruin perfectly healthy puppies. Airlines who require these shots prior to six months of age, which more vets are recommending as the proper age for the first set of shots, should be brought up to date.
Puppy owners, beware of giving shots prior to six months of age!
Wong (NT, Hong Kong) on 11/30/2008:
In 2006, when she was 17 years old, she took the annual vaccination as well as the anti-rabies shot at the same time ( as it was due for the 3-year time frame for the latter).
Within a week, she was sick - turned lethargic, intermittent vomiting. Went to the same vet who gave her the vaccinations. She gave my bitch bagfuls of pills, including some in halves, some in quarters. Had to do it 3 times a day.
My dear Belle was a super darling. The first few days she endured all these pills shoving down her throats, 5 or 6 of them in 5 or 6 shovings, repeated for 3 times a day = imagine, that means a total of close to 20 shovings each day down the throat of a patient who's already not feeling so well.
By about the 5th or 6th day, she started struggling with me during pill shovings, and even when successful, would throw up after 5 minutes with some of the pills seen. As I was not sure if some of the those unseen had been truly ingested by her or dissolved in her vomit, I dared not refeed, in case I would overdose the medicine. But when I didn't, that meant she did not get medicine coverage.
On the 7th day during return visit with the vet, I voiced my concern that all those bags of pills did not seem to make her any better, and each pill-feeding operation had become excruciatingly upsetting and distressing for me and for my dear Belle, as she struggled while I tried to made sure the pills went down her throat, also be careful that it didn't go down too far to choke her.
The vet just said matter-of-factly that "It's difficult. But it had to be done. Those are medicine to treat her." And she packed us off with exactly the same bagfuls of medicine again, to come back in another week.
My Belle had never skipped a meal in her entire 17 years of life. This time she was skipping some meals here and there. I knew in my heart of hearts that something was not right.
What the vet had said about her condition was only some stomach/intestinal disorder, and some of the medicine was for soothing her windpipe = sounded not very alarming, and no specific illness terminology was articulated.
The very night we came back from this return visit, Belle was pacing and yelping at times, obviously distressed. We stayed up with her the whole night. The next morning, I called the vet. She suggested for us to bring her in for something we all sensed at the back of our minds but didn't verbalize on the phone.
Once there, she examined her, and advised me to euthanize her.
There went my sweet Belle.
Within a week of getting her annual vaccination plus anit-rabies shot, she developed illnesses which the vet did not put a specific name to (just general discomfort and the like), and she departed 8 days after seeing the vet.
Meaning she departed after 2 weeks of getting the vaccinations.
I have still to come across a vet who would agree with me that it's the vaccines which took Belle's life.
But how can the connection not be made that my Belle, albeit 17 years old, was healthily eating, walking, pooping, sleeping (the 4 most important indicators of health), suddenly turned down slope in just 1 week after the injections, and departed in 2 ?
Needless to say, I did not go back to the same vet again with my other dogs. Not so much for her inability to save my Belle, but for her uncaring attitude that I should feed those bagfuls of pills to Belle while some dogs revolted even against 1 shoving, so how could the vet think my Belle could take 20 shovings each day, for an entire week, and then another more ?
But the new vet I'm seeing is also a vaccine supporter, and a forceful one at that.
Actually, is there any vet who is not supporting vaccinations, as it is their easy income source ?
I had been agonizing over the issue of "to bring or not to bring" my dogs in for vaccinations each year, especially during the last 4 or 5 years of Belle's life after she turned 'teenager'. Each year, my heart palpitated as I had known the "evil" effects of vaccinations from reading from articles similar to websites as this one ? But the vet made me fearful by saying that all the more I should vaccinate Belle in her senior years as she's in a weakened state of protecting herself against the illnesses.
Finally, after years of my heart-rending and dreaded decision of bringing my dogs in for vaccination, my sweet Belle succumbed in her 17th year.
Bless her. She has had 17 years of good life. And she had given me 17 years of her blessed sweetness.
Now my Was-chu is getting on to 10 years. In 3 or 4 years, I would start to face the dreaded decision each year again of bringing him in for vaccination. Moreso the anti-rabies shot is demanded by law = meaning I'd be a "criminal" if I don't..... how ridiculous our life has become !
If it's said the 21st-century is a high-tech world, why is it that we still have to agonize over the issue of seemingly innocent vaccinations, which may turn out not to be so innocent ?
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jacquie (Eagle River, Alaska) on 11/28/2008:
Liz (Hancock, MI) on 11/25/2008:
Molly (Raleigh, NC) on 11/21/2008:
Julie (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) on 11/15/2008:
Amber (Malden, Missouri) on 11/12/2008:
l.andersen (sun city, az usa) on 11/08/2008:
my 6 year old auss.shepherd male dog. received his rabies shot on aug.18.2008 around mid sept. he started getting sick on and off. i thought it was his food. so i changed it. soon he didnt want to eat much of the food either.then he kept getting sick. i took him to the emergency,his blood work came back he has anemia.he was 52 lbs. now he is 45 lbs. he has never been sick. i am very upset. i am sorry i took him to the vet. i truly believe its from the shot. please if this has happened to others i need to know if there is a connection. thank you. in az.l.andersen
Lara (Springfield, MO) on 10/22/2008:
I found out from my vet that any kind of pork product can induce seizures, even in dogs that aren't epileptic. I stopped giving my dog ham bones (he used to get a lot) and pork and he has not had near as many seizures. Also, I only give him spring water because tap water has chlorine, which is another seizure trigger.
Another trigger that some people may not think of is exposure to fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Even if you do not use these products in your own yard, your neighbors could be spraying them.
As far as the vaccination issue goes, my dog also had his first seizure about one week after his rabies booster.
Leigh Irvin (Farmington, NM) on 10/07/2008:
Barbara (Lighthouse Point, FL USA) on 10/05/2008:
Lynn Frye (Carthage, North Carolina) on 10/03/2008:
I took him back to the vet the next morning. She gave him a muscle relaxer that seemed to work some as he was now lifting his leg up to go to the bathroom and would allow me to hold him.
The following morning he is exhibiting the same effects as of the past night. He is not the spunky run around dog and he cries when I try to lift him up. I am on my way back to the vet as she (who is a Banfield Vet) in Petsmart states she will give Austin medications to reduce the inflammation.
Julie (Nanaimo, British Columbia) on 10/02/2008:
He is also on Purina Hypoallergenic food - hideous stuff; the first ingredient is starch. STARCH! But the damn dog LOVES it. Not that I blame him - Corn Pops are a nutritionists nightmare, but I'd be happy to eat them every day. However that Purina food makes me gag everytime I feed him.
I just wish there was something else that could help him. I've been looking at thuja, but I am not planning on mixing medications - any natural cures I give him could possibly react with the medication he is on and there isn't enough research done for me to know if its reasonably safe to combine.
Alina (Monroe , NC) on 09/30/2008:
Rose (Nashville, TN) on 09/27/2008:
Paul (Spring Hill, FL.) on 09/27/2008:
Carol (Oakdale, Pa) on 09/26/2008:
Dianne (Windsor, On Canada) on 09/22/2008:
Barbara (Los Angeles, CA) on 09/07/2008:
Joyce (Williamstown, New Jersey) on 09/02/2008:
Lisa (mesa, AZ) on 09/01/2008:
Kelly (Atlanta, GA) on 08/26/2008:
Lisa (Wichita falls, US) on 08/25/2008:
Cynthia (Mandeville, Louisiana) on 08/16/2008:
Jackie (San Antonio, TX) on 08/14/2008:
I want to report that my 6-year old feline, Boo, has developed a fibrosarcoma at the shoulder where she was injected with rabies vaccine (Fort Dodge) in March of this year. I know there is no remedy or cure. I just pray that the manufacturers make improvements in the preparation of this vaccine and that vets educate themselves and their pet owners on the risks/preventive measures associated with its administeration. So much is at stake for our beloved pets subject to this required vaccination.
Nicole (Richards Bay, South Africa) on 08/10/2008:
Lynda (Merrimack, NH, USA) on 06/30/2008:
She was due this year for her Rabies Vaccine again, my husband took her a little over a month ago, she began throwing up yellow bile, and a huge amount of blood, her eyes are red again, she is very lethargic, eating only small amounts and has to be carried downstairs to go out to do her business. We took her to a different vet and again her platelet count is down, she now has some doxycycline and some steroids. I have give her the medication an hour ago and hopefully she will make another miraculous recovery.
I will never ever give her another vaccine, this stuff is dangerous.
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Angelica (Los Angeles, CA) on 12/03/2008:
Pamela Whitney (Corrales, NM) on 12/01/2008:
This was a perfectly adjusted puppy, happy, playful, not fearful of anything. The new owner reported that he was skiddish, shy and would not walk through doorways. Everyone has been perplexed by this new and strange behavior. A dog trainer was brought in, and stated that this dog had genetic defects. But neither parents demonstrated this behavior, nor did the puppy prior to getting the rabies vaccine.
My internet research has determined that behavior problems are a side effect of a vaccine. It also uncovered that the same amount of vaccine is given to all dogs regardless of their weight and size! All 27 Vet schools are re-examining their vaccine protocols.
I sold a beautiful, happy, well-adjusted puppy who is now coming back to me three weeks later a different dog.
One size fits all vaccines can ruin perfectly healthy puppies. Airlines who require these shots prior to six months of age, which more vets are recommending as the proper age for the first set of shots, should be brought up to date.
Puppy owners, beware of giving shots prior to six months of age!
Wong (NT, Hong Kong) on 11/30/2008:
In 2006, when she was 17 years old, she took the annual vaccination as well as the anti-rabies shot at the same time ( as it was due for the 3-year time frame for the latter).
Within a week, she was sick - turned lethargic, intermittent vomiting. Went to the same vet who gave her the vaccinations. She gave my bitch bagfuls of pills, including some in halves, some in quarters. Had to do it 3 times a day.
My dear Belle was a super darling. The first few days she endured all these pills shoving down her throats, 5 or 6 of them in 5 or 6 shovings, repeated for 3 times a day = imagine, that means a total of close to 20 shovings each day down the throat of a patient who's already not feeling so well.
By about the 5th or 6th day, she started struggling with me during pill shovings, and even when successful, would throw up after 5 minutes with some of the pills seen. As I was not sure if some of the those unseen had been truly ingested by her or dissolved in her vomit, I dared not refeed, in case I would overdose the medicine. But when I didn't, that meant she did not get medicine coverage.
On the 7th day during return visit with the vet, I voiced my concern that all those bags of pills did not seem to make her any better, and each pill-feeding operation had become excruciatingly upsetting and distressing for me and for my dear Belle, as she struggled while I tried to made sure the pills went down her throat, also be careful that it didn't go down too far to choke her.
The vet just said matter-of-factly that "It's difficult. But it had to be done. Those are medicine to treat her." And she packed us off with exactly the same bagfuls of medicine again, to come back in another week.
My Belle had never skipped a meal in her entire 17 years of life. This time she was skipping some meals here and there. I knew in my heart of hearts that something was not right.
What the vet had said about her condition was only some stomach/intestinal disorder, and some of the medicine was for soothing her windpipe = sounded not very alarming, and no specific illness terminology was articulated.
The very night we came back from this return visit, Belle was pacing and yelping at times, obviously distressed. We stayed up with her the whole night. The next morning, I called the vet. She suggested for us to bring her in for something we all sensed at the back of our minds but didn't verbalize on the phone.
Once there, she examined her, and advised me to euthanize her.
There went my sweet Belle.
Within a week of getting her annual vaccination plus anit-rabies shot, she developed illnesses which the vet did not put a specific name to (just general discomfort and the like), and she departed 8 days after seeing the vet.
Meaning she departed after 2 weeks of getting the vaccinations.
I have still to come across a vet who would agree with me that it's the vaccines which took Belle's life.
But how can the connection not be made that my Belle, albeit 17 years old, was healthily eating, walking, pooping, sleeping (the 4 most important indicators of health), suddenly turned down slope in just 1 week after the injections, and departed in 2 ?
Needless to say, I did not go back to the same vet again with my other dogs. Not so much for her inability to save my Belle, but for her uncaring attitude that I should feed those bagfuls of pills to Belle while some dogs revolted even against 1 shoving, so how could the vet think my Belle could take 20 shovings each day, for an entire week, and then another more ?
But the new vet I'm seeing is also a vaccine supporter, and a forceful one at that.
Actually, is there any vet who is not supporting vaccinations, as it is their easy income source ?
I had been agonizing over the issue of "to bring or not to bring" my dogs in for vaccinations each year, especially during the last 4 or 5 years of Belle's life after she turned 'teenager'. Each year, my heart palpitated as I had known the "evil" effects of vaccinations from reading from articles similar to websites as this one ? But the vet made me fearful by saying that all the more I should vaccinate Belle in her senior years as she's in a weakened state of protecting herself against the illnesses.
Finally, after years of my heart-rending and dreaded decision of bringing my dogs in for vaccination, my sweet Belle succumbed in her 17th year.
Bless her. She has had 17 years of good life. And she had given me 17 years of her blessed sweetness.
Now my Was-chu is getting on to 10 years. In 3 or 4 years, I would start to face the dreaded decision each year again of bringing him in for vaccination. Moreso the anti-rabies shot is demanded by law = meaning I'd be a "criminal" if I don't..... how ridiculous our life has become !
If it's said the 21st-century is a high-tech world, why is it that we still have to agonize over the issue of seemingly innocent vaccinations, which may turn out not to be so innocent ?
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jacquie (Eagle River, Alaska) on 11/28/2008:
Liz (Hancock, MI) on 11/25/2008:
Molly (Raleigh, NC) on 11/21/2008:
Julie (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) on 11/15/2008:
Amber (Malden, Missouri) on 11/12/2008:
l.andersen (sun city, az usa) on 11/08/2008:
my 6 year old auss.shepherd male dog. received his rabies shot on aug.18.2008 around mid sept. he started getting sick on and off. i thought it was his food. so i changed it. soon he didnt want to eat much of the food either.then he kept getting sick. i took him to the emergency,his blood work came back he has anemia.he was 52 lbs. now he is 45 lbs. he has never been sick. i am very upset. i am sorry i took him to the vet. i truly believe its from the shot. please if this has happened to others i need to know if there is a connection. thank you. in az.l.andersen
Lara (Springfield, MO) on 10/22/2008:
I found out from my vet that any kind of pork product can induce seizures, even in dogs that aren't epileptic. I stopped giving my dog ham bones (he used to get a lot) and pork and he has not had near as many seizures. Also, I only give him spring water because tap water has chlorine, which is another seizure trigger.
Another trigger that some people may not think of is exposure to fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Even if you do not use these products in your own yard, your neighbors could be spraying them.
As far as the vaccination issue goes, my dog also had his first seizure about one week after his rabies booster.
Leigh Irvin (Farmington, NM) on 10/07/2008:
Barbara (Lighthouse Point, FL USA) on 10/05/2008:
Lynn Frye (Carthage, North Carolina) on 10/03/2008:
I took him back to the vet the next morning. She gave him a muscle relaxer that seemed to work some as he was now lifting his leg up to go to the bathroom and would allow me to hold him.
The following morning he is exhibiting the same effects as of the past night. He is not the spunky run around dog and he cries when I try to lift him up. I am on my way back to the vet as she (who is a Banfield Vet) in Petsmart states she will give Austin medications to reduce the inflammation.
Julie (Nanaimo, British Columbia) on 10/02/2008:
He is also on Purina Hypoallergenic food - hideous stuff; the first ingredient is starch. STARCH! But the damn dog LOVES it. Not that I blame him - Corn Pops are a nutritionists nightmare, but I'd be happy to eat them every day. However that Purina food makes me gag everytime I feed him.
I just wish there was something else that could help him. I've been looking at thuja, but I am not planning on mixing medications - any natural cures I give him could possibly react with the medication he is on and there isn't enough research done for me to know if its reasonably safe to combine.
Alina (Monroe , NC) on 09/30/2008:
Rose (Nashville, TN) on 09/27/2008:
Paul (Spring Hill, FL.) on 09/27/2008:
Carol (Oakdale, Pa) on 09/26/2008:
Dianne (Windsor, On Canada) on 09/22/2008:
Barbara (Los Angeles, CA) on 09/07/2008:
Joyce (Williamstown, New Jersey) on 09/02/2008:
Lisa (mesa, AZ) on 09/01/2008:
Kelly (Atlanta, GA) on 08/26/2008:
Lisa (Wichita falls, US) on 08/25/2008:
Cynthia (Mandeville, Louisiana) on 08/16/2008:
Jackie (San Antonio, TX) on 08/14/2008:
I want to report that my 6-year old feline, Boo, has developed a fibrosarcoma at the shoulder where she was injected with rabies vaccine (Fort Dodge) in March of this year. I know there is no remedy or cure. I just pray that the manufacturers make improvements in the preparation of this vaccine and that vets educate themselves and their pet owners on the risks/preventive measures associated with its administeration. So much is at stake for our beloved pets subject to this required vaccination.
Nicole (Richards Bay, South Africa) on 08/10/2008:
Lynda (Merrimack, NH, USA) on 06/30/2008:
She was due this year for her Rabies Vaccine again, my husband took her a little over a month ago, she began throwing up yellow bile, and a huge amount of blood, her eyes are red again, she is very lethargic, eating only small amounts and has to be carried downstairs to go out to do her business. We took her to a different vet and again her platelet count is down, she now has some doxycycline and some steroids. I have give her the medication an hour ago and hopefully she will make another miraculous recovery.
I will never ever give her another vaccine, this stuff is dangerous.
Angelica (Los Angeles, CA) on 12/03/2008:
Pamela Whitney (Corrales, NM) on 12/01/2008:
This was a perfectly adjusted puppy, happy, playful, not fearful of anything. The new owner reported that he was skiddish, shy and would not walk through doorways. Everyone has been perplexed by this new and strange behavior. A dog trainer was brought in, and stated that this dog had genetic defects. But neither parents demonstrated this behavior, nor did the puppy prior to getting the rabies vaccine.
My internet research has determined that behavior problems are a side effect of a vaccine. It also uncovered that the same amount of vaccine is given to all dogs regardless of their weight and size! All 27 Vet schools are re-examining their vaccine protocols.
I sold a beautiful, happy, well-adjusted puppy who is now coming back to me three weeks later a different dog.
One size fits all vaccines can ruin perfectly healthy puppies. Airlines who require these shots prior to six months of age, which more vets are recommending as the proper age for the first set of shots, should be brought up to date.
Puppy owners, beware of giving shots prior to six months of age!
Wong (NT, Hong Kong) on 11/30/2008:
In 2006, when she was 17 years old, she took the annual vaccination as well as the anti-rabies shot at the same time ( as it was due for the 3-year time frame for the latter).
Within a week, she was sick - turned lethargic, intermittent vomiting. Went to the same vet who gave her the vaccinations. She gave my bitch bagfuls of pills, including some in halves, some in quarters. Had to do it 3 times a day.
My dear Belle was a super darling. The first few days she endured all these pills shoving down her throats, 5 or 6 of them in 5 or 6 shovings, repeated for 3 times a day = imagine, that means a total of close to 20 shovings each day down the throat of a patient who's already not feeling so well.
By about the 5th or 6th day, she started struggling with me during pill shovings, and even when successful, would throw up after 5 minutes with some of the pills seen. As I was not sure if some of the those unseen had been truly ingested by her or dissolved in her vomit, I dared not refeed, in case I would overdose the medicine. But when I didn't, that meant she did not get medicine coverage.
On the 7th day during return visit with the vet, I voiced my concern that all those bags of pills did not seem to make her any better, and each pill-feeding operation had become excruciatingly upsetting and distressing for me and for my dear Belle, as she struggled while I tried to made sure the pills went down her throat, also be careful that it didn't go down too far to choke her.
The vet just said matter-of-factly that "It's difficult. But it had to be done. Those are medicine to treat her." And she packed us off with exactly the same bagfuls of medicine again, to come back in another week.
My Belle had never skipped a meal in her entire 17 years of life. This time she was skipping some meals here and there. I knew in my heart of hearts that something was not right.
What the vet had said about her condition was only some stomach/intestinal disorder, and some of the medicine was for soothing her windpipe = sounded not very alarming, and no specific illness terminology was articulated.
The very night we came back from this return visit, Belle was pacing and yelping at times, obviously distressed. We stayed up with her the whole night. The next morning, I called the vet. She suggested for us to bring her in for something we all sensed at the back of our minds but didn't verbalize on the phone.
Once there, she examined her, and advised me to euthanize her.
There went my sweet Belle.
Within a week of getting her annual vaccination plus anit-rabies shot, she developed illnesses which the vet did not put a specific name to (just general discomfort and the like), and she departed 8 days after seeing the vet.
Meaning she departed after 2 weeks of getting the vaccinations.
I have still to come across a vet who would agree with me that it's the vaccines which took Belle's life.
But how can the connection not be made that my Belle, albeit 17 years old, was healthily eating, walking, pooping, sleeping (the 4 most important indicators of health), suddenly turned down slope in just 1 week after the injections, and departed in 2 ?
Needless to say, I did not go back to the same vet again with my other dogs. Not so much for her inability to save my Belle, but for her uncaring attitude that I should feed those bagfuls of pills to Belle while some dogs revolted even against 1 shoving, so how could the vet think my Belle could take 20 shovings each day, for an entire week, and then another more ?
But the new vet I'm seeing is also a vaccine supporter, and a forceful one at that.
Actually, is there any vet who is not supporting vaccinations, as it is their easy income source ?
I had been agonizing over the issue of "to bring or not to bring" my dogs in for vaccinations each year, especially during the last 4 or 5 years of Belle's life after she turned 'teenager'. Each year, my heart palpitated as I had known the "evil" effects of vaccinations from reading from articles similar to websites as this one ? But the vet made me fearful by saying that all the more I should vaccinate Belle in her senior years as she's in a weakened state of protecting herself against the illnesses.
Finally, after years of my heart-rending and dreaded decision of bringing my dogs in for vaccination, my sweet Belle succumbed in her 17th year.
Bless her. She has had 17 years of good life. And she had given me 17 years of her blessed sweetness.
Now my Was-chu is getting on to 10 years. In 3 or 4 years, I would start to face the dreaded decision each year again of bringing him in for vaccination. Moreso the anti-rabies shot is demanded by law = meaning I'd be a "criminal" if I don't..... how ridiculous our life has become !
If it's said the 21st-century is a high-tech world, why is it that we still have to agonize over the issue of seemingly innocent vaccinations, which may turn out not to be so innocent ?
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jacquie (Eagle River, Alaska) on 11/28/2008:
Liz (Hancock, MI) on 11/25/2008:
Molly (Raleigh, NC) on 11/21/2008:
Julie (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) on 11/15/2008:
Amber (Malden, Missouri) on 11/12/2008:
l.andersen (sun city, az usa) on 11/08/2008:
my 6 year old auss.shepherd male dog. received his rabies shot on aug.18.2008 around mid sept. he started getting sick on and off. i thought it was his food. so i changed it. soon he didnt want to eat much of the food either.then he kept getting sick. i took him to the emergency,his blood work came back he has anemia.he was 52 lbs. now he is 45 lbs. he has never been sick. i am very upset. i am sorry i took him to the vet. i truly believe its from the shot. please if this has happened to others i need to know if there is a connection. thank you. in az.l.andersen
Lara (Springfield, MO) on 10/22/2008:
I found out from my vet that any kind of pork product can induce seizures, even in dogs that aren't epileptic. I stopped giving my dog ham bones (he used to get a lot) and pork and he has not had near as many seizures. Also, I only give him spring water because tap water has chlorine, which is another seizure trigger.
Another trigger that some people may not think of is exposure to fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Even if you do not use these products in your own yard, your neighbors could be spraying them.
As far as the vaccination issue goes, my dog also had his first seizure about one week after his rabies booster.
Leigh Irvin (Farmington, NM) on 10/07/2008:
Barbara (Lighthouse Point, FL USA) on 10/05/2008:
Lynn Frye (Carthage, North Carolina) on 10/03/2008:
I took him back to the vet the next morning. She gave him a muscle relaxer that seemed to work some as he was now lifting his leg up to go to the bathroom and would allow me to hold him.
The following morning he is exhibiting the same effects as of the past night. He is not the spunky run around dog and he cries when I try to lift him up. I am on my way back to the vet as she (who is a Banfield Vet) in Petsmart states she will give Austin medications to reduce the inflammation.
Julie (Nanaimo, British Columbia) on 10/02/2008:
He is also on Purina Hypoallergenic food - hideous stuff; the first ingredient is starch. STARCH! But the damn dog LOVES it. Not that I blame him - Corn Pops are a nutritionists nightmare, but I'd be happy to eat them every day. However that Purina food makes me gag everytime I feed him.
I just wish there was something else that could help him. I've been looking at thuja, but I am not planning on mixing medications - any natural cures I give him could possibly react with the medication he is on and there isn't enough research done for me to know if its reasonably safe to combine.
Alina (Monroe , NC) on 09/30/2008:
Rose (Nashville, TN) on 09/27/2008:
Paul (Spring Hill, FL.) on 09/27/2008:
Carol (Oakdale, Pa) on 09/26/2008:
Dianne (Windsor, On Canada) on 09/22/2008:
Barbara (Los Angeles, CA) on 09/07/2008:
Joyce (Williamstown, New Jersey) on 09/02/2008:
Lisa (mesa, AZ) on 09/01/2008:
Kelly (Atlanta, GA) on 08/26/2008:
Lisa (Wichita falls, US) on 08/25/2008:
Cynthia (Mandeville, Louisiana) on 08/16/2008:
Jackie (San Antonio, TX) on 08/14/2008:
I want to report that my 6-year old feline, Boo, has developed a fibrosarcoma at the shoulder where she was injected with rabies vaccine (Fort Dodge) in March of this year. I know there is no remedy or cure. I just pray that the manufacturers make improvements in the preparation of this vaccine and that vets educate themselves and their pet owners on the risks/preventive measures associated with its administeration. So much is at stake for our beloved pets subject to this required vaccination.
Nicole (Richards Bay, South Africa) on 08/10/2008:
Lynda (Merrimack, NH, USA) on 06/30/2008:
She was due this year for her Rabies Vaccine again, my husband took her a little over a month ago, she began throwing up yellow bile, and a huge amount of blood, her eyes are red again, she is very lethargic, eating only small amounts and has to be carried downstairs to go out to do her business. We took her to a different vet and again her platelet count is down, she now has some doxycycline and some steroids. I have give her the medication an hour ago and hopefully she will make another miraculous recovery.
I will never ever give her another vaccine, this stuff is dangerous.
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Angelica (Los Angeles, CA) on 12/03/2008:
Pamela Whitney (Corrales, NM) on 12/01/2008:
This was a perfectly adjusted puppy, happy, playful, not fearful of anything. The new owner reported that he was skiddish, shy and would not walk through doorways. Everyone has been perplexed by this new and strange behavior. A dog trainer was brought in, and stated that this dog had genetic defects. But neither parents demonstrated this behavior, nor did the puppy prior to getting the rabies vaccine.
My internet research has determined that behavior problems are a side effect of a vaccine. It also uncovered that the same amount of vaccine is given to all dogs regardless of their weight and size! All 27 Vet schools are re-examining their vaccine protocols.
I sold a beautiful, happy, well-adjusted puppy who is now coming back to me three weeks later a different dog.
One size fits all vaccines can ruin perfectly healthy puppies. Airlines who require these shots prior to six months of age, which more vets are recommending as the proper age for the first set of shots, should be brought up to date.
Puppy owners, beware of giving shots prior to six months of age!
Wong (NT, Hong Kong) on 11/30/2008:
In 2006, when she was 17 years old, she took the annual vaccination as well as the anti-rabies shot at the same time ( as it was due for the 3-year time frame for the latter).
Within a week, she was sick - turned lethargic, intermittent vomiting. Went to the same vet who gave her the vaccinations. She gave my bitch bagfuls of pills, including some in halves, some in quarters. Had to do it 3 times a day.
My dear Belle was a super darling. The first few days she endured all these pills shoving down her throats, 5 or 6 of them in 5 or 6 shovings, repeated for 3 times a day = imagine, that means a total of close to 20 shovings each day down the throat of a patient who's already not feeling so well.
By about the 5th or 6th day, she started struggling with me during pill shovings, and even when successful, would throw up after 5 minutes with some of the pills seen. As I was not sure if some of the those unseen had been truly ingested by her or dissolved in her vomit, I dared not refeed, in case I would overdose the medicine. But when I didn't, that meant she did not get medicine coverage.
On the 7th day during return visit with the vet, I voiced my concern that all those bags of pills did not seem to make her any better, and each pill-feeding operation had become excruciatingly upsetting and distressing for me and for my dear Belle, as she struggled while I tried to made sure the pills went down her throat, also be careful that it didn't go down too far to choke her.
The vet just said matter-of-factly that "It's difficult. But it had to be done. Those are medicine to treat her." And she packed us off with exactly the same bagfuls of medicine again, to come back in another week.
My Belle had never skipped a meal in her entire 17 years of life. This time she was skipping some meals here and there. I knew in my heart of hearts that something was not right.
What the vet had said about her condition was only some stomach/intestinal disorder, and some of the medicine was for soothing her windpipe = sounded not very alarming, and no specific illness terminology was articulated.
The very night we came back from this return visit, Belle was pacing and yelping at times, obviously distressed. We stayed up with her the whole night. The next morning, I called the vet. She suggested for us to bring her in for something we all sensed at the back of our minds but didn't verbalize on the phone.
Once there, she examined her, and advised me to euthanize her.
There went my sweet Belle.
Within a week of getting her annual vaccination plus anit-rabies shot, she developed illnesses which the vet did not put a specific name to (just general discomfort and the like), and she departed 8 days after seeing the vet.
Meaning she departed after 2 weeks of getting the vaccinations.
I have still to come across a vet who would agree with me that it's the vaccines which took Belle's life.
But how can the connection not be made that my Belle, albeit 17 years old, was healthily eating, walking, pooping, sleeping (the 4 most important indicators of health), suddenly turned down slope in just 1 week after the injections, and departed in 2 ?
Needless to say, I did not go back to the same vet again with my other dogs. Not so much for her inability to save my Belle, but for her uncaring attitude that I should feed those bagfuls of pills to Belle while some dogs revolted even against 1 shoving, so how could the vet think my Belle could take 20 shovings each day, for an entire week, and then another more ?
But the new vet I'm seeing is also a vaccine supporter, and a forceful one at that.
Actually, is there any vet who is not supporting vaccinations, as it is their easy income source ?
I had been agonizing over the issue of "to bring or not to bring" my dogs in for vaccinations each year, especially during the last 4 or 5 years of Belle's life after she turned 'teenager'. Each year, my heart palpitated as I had known the "evil" effects of vaccinations from reading from articles similar to websites as this one ? But the vet made me fearful by saying that all the more I should vaccinate Belle in her senior years as she's in a weakened state of protecting herself against the illnesses.
Finally, after years of my heart-rending and dreaded decision of bringing my dogs in for vaccination, my sweet Belle succumbed in her 17th year.
Bless her. She has had 17 years of good life. And she had given me 17 years of her blessed sweetness.
Now my Was-chu is getting on to 10 years. In 3 or 4 years, I would start to face the dreaded decision each year again of bringing him in for vaccination. Moreso the anti-rabies shot is demanded by law = meaning I'd be a "criminal" if I don't..... how ridiculous our life has become !
If it's said the 21st-century is a high-tech world, why is it that we still have to agonize over the issue of seemingly innocent vaccinations, which may turn out not to be so innocent ?
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jacquie (Eagle River, Alaska) on 11/28/2008:
Liz (Hancock, MI) on 11/25/2008:
Molly (Raleigh, NC) on 11/21/2008:
Julie (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) on 11/15/2008:
Amber (Malden, Missouri) on 11/12/2008:
l.andersen (sun city, az usa) on 11/08/2008:
my 6 year old auss.shepherd male dog. received his rabies shot on aug.18.2008 around mid sept. he started getting sick on and off. i thought it was his food. so i changed it. soon he didnt want to eat much of the food either.then he kept getting sick. i took him to the emergency,his blood work came back he has anemia.he was 52 lbs. now he is 45 lbs. he has never been sick. i am very upset. i am sorry i took him to the vet. i truly believe its from the shot. please if this has happened to others i need to know if there is a connection. thank you. in az.l.andersen
Lara (Springfield, MO) on 10/22/2008:
I found out from my vet that any kind of pork product can induce seizures, even in dogs that aren't epileptic. I stopped giving my dog ham bones (he used to get a lot) and pork and he has not had near as many seizures. Also, I only give him spring water because tap water has chlorine, which is another seizure trigger.
Another trigger that some people may not think of is exposure to fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Even if you do not use these products in your own yard, your neighbors could be spraying them.
As far as the vaccination issue goes, my dog also had his first seizure about one week after his rabies booster.
Leigh Irvin (Farmington, NM) on 10/07/2008:
Barbara (Lighthouse Point, FL USA) on 10/05/2008:
Lynn Frye (Carthage, North Carolina) on 10/03/2008:
I took him back to the vet the next morning. She gave him a muscle relaxer that seemed to work some as he was now lifting his leg up to go to the bathroom and would allow me to hold him.
The following morning he is exhibiting the same effects as of the past night. He is not the spunky run around dog and he cries when I try to lift him up. I am on my way back to the vet as she (who is a Banfield Vet) in Petsmart states she will give Austin medications to reduce the inflammation.
Julie (Nanaimo, British Columbia) on 10/02/2008:
He is also on Purina Hypoallergenic food - hideous stuff; the first ingredient is starch. STARCH! But the damn dog LOVES it. Not that I blame him - Corn Pops are a nutritionists nightmare, but I'd be happy to eat them every day. However that Purina food makes me gag everytime I feed him.
I just wish there was something else that could help him. I've been looking at thuja, but I am not planning on mixing medications - any natural cures I give him could possibly react with the medication he is on and there isn't enough research done for me to know if its reasonably safe to combine.
Alina (Monroe , NC) on 09/30/2008:
Rose (Nashville, TN) on 09/27/2008:
Paul (Spring Hill, FL.) on 09/27/2008:
Carol (Oakdale, Pa) on 09/26/2008:
Dianne (Windsor, On Canada) on 09/22/2008:
Barbara (Los Angeles, CA) on 09/07/2008:
Joyce (Williamstown, New Jersey) on 09/02/2008:
Lisa (mesa, AZ) on 09/01/2008:
Kelly (Atlanta, GA) on 08/26/2008:
Lisa (Wichita falls, US) on 08/25/2008:
Cynthia (Mandeville, Louisiana) on 08/16/2008:
Jackie (San Antonio, TX) on 08/14/2008:
I want to report that my 6-year old feline, Boo, has developed a fibrosarcoma at the shoulder where she was injected with rabies vaccine (Fort Dodge) in March of this year. I know there is no remedy or cure. I just pray that the manufacturers make improvements in the preparation of this vaccine and that vets educate themselves and their pet owners on the risks/preventive measures associated with its administeration. So much is at stake for our beloved pets subject to this required vaccination.
Nicole (Richards Bay, South Africa) on 08/10/2008:
Lynda (Merrimack, NH, USA) on 06/30/2008:
She was due this year for her Rabies Vaccine again, my husband took her a little over a month ago, she began throwing up yellow bile, and a huge amount of blood, her eyes are red again, she is very lethargic, eating only small amounts and has to be carried downstairs to go out to do her business. We took her to a different vet and again her platelet count is down, she now has some doxycycline and some steroids. I have give her the medication an hour ago and hopefully she will make another miraculous recovery.
I will never ever give her another vaccine, this stuff is dangerous.
Angelica (Los Angeles, CA) on 12/03/2008:
Pamela Whitney (Corrales, NM) on 12/01/2008:
This was a perfectly adjusted puppy, happy, playful, not fearful of anything. The new owner reported that he was skiddish, shy and would not walk through doorways. Everyone has been perplexed by this new and strange behavior. A dog trainer was brought in, and stated that this dog had genetic defects. But neither parents demonstrated this behavior, nor did the puppy prior to getting the rabies vaccine.
My internet research has determined that behavior problems are a side effect of a vaccine. It also uncovered that the same amount of vaccine is given to all dogs regardless of their weight and size! All 27 Vet schools are re-examining their vaccine protocols.
I sold a beautiful, happy, well-adjusted puppy who is now coming back to me three weeks later a different dog.
One size fits all vaccines can ruin perfectly healthy puppies. Airlines who require these shots prior to six months of age, which more vets are recommending as the proper age for the first set of shots, should be brought up to date.
Puppy owners, beware of giving shots prior to six months of age!
Wong (NT, Hong Kong) on 11/30/2008:
In 2006, when she was 17 years old, she took the annual vaccination as well as the anti-rabies shot at the same time ( as it was due for the 3-year time frame for the latter).
Within a week, she was sick - turned lethargic, intermittent vomiting. Went to the same vet who gave her the vaccinations. She gave my bitch bagfuls of pills, including some in halves, some in quarters. Had to do it 3 times a day.
My dear Belle was a super darling. The first few days she endured all these pills shoving down her throats, 5 or 6 of them in 5 or 6 shovings, repeated for 3 times a day = imagine, that means a total of close to 20 shovings each day down the throat of a patient who's already not feeling so well.
By about the 5th or 6th day, she started struggling with me during pill shovings, and even when successful, would throw up after 5 minutes with some of the pills seen. As I was not sure if some of the those unseen had been truly ingested by her or dissolved in her vomit, I dared not refeed, in case I would overdose the medicine. But when I didn't, that meant she did not get medicine coverage.
On the 7th day during return visit with the vet, I voiced my concern that all those bags of pills did not seem to make her any better, and each pill-feeding operation had become excruciatingly upsetting and distressing for me and for my dear Belle, as she struggled while I tried to made sure the pills went down her throat, also be careful that it didn't go down too far to choke her.
The vet just said matter-of-factly that "It's difficult. But it had to be done. Those are medicine to treat her." And she packed us off with exactly the same bagfuls of medicine again, to come back in another week.
My Belle had never skipped a meal in her entire 17 years of life. This time she was skipping some meals here and there. I knew in my heart of hearts that something was not right.
What the vet had said about her condition was only some stomach/intestinal disorder, and some of the medicine was for soothing her windpipe = sounded not very alarming, and no specific illness terminology was articulated.
The very night we came back from this return visit, Belle was pacing and yelping at times, obviously distressed. We stayed up with her the whole night. The next morning, I called the vet. She suggested for us to bring her in for something we all sensed at the back of our minds but didn't verbalize on the phone.
Once there, she examined her, and advised me to euthanize her.
There went my sweet Belle.
Within a week of getting her annual vaccination plus anit-rabies shot, she developed illnesses which the vet did not put a specific name to (just general discomfort and the like), and she departed 8 days after seeing the vet.
Meaning she departed after 2 weeks of getting the vaccinations.
I have still to come across a vet who would agree with me that it's the vaccines which took Belle's life.
But how can the connection not be made that my Belle, albeit 17 years old, was healthily eating, walking, pooping, sleeping (the 4 most important indicators of health), suddenly turned down slope in just 1 week after the injections, and departed in 2 ?
Needless to say, I did not go back to the same vet again with my other dogs. Not so much for her inability to save my Belle, but for her uncaring attitude that I should feed those bagfuls of pills to Belle while some dogs revolted even against 1 shoving, so how could the vet think my Belle could take 20 shovings each day, for an entire week, and then another more ?
But the new vet I'm seeing is also a vaccine supporter, and a forceful one at that.
Actually, is there any vet who is not supporting vaccinations, as it is their easy income source ?
I had been agonizing over the issue of "to bring or not to bring" my dogs in for vaccinations each year, especially during the last 4 or 5 years of Belle's life after she turned 'teenager'. Each year, my heart palpitated as I had known the "evil" effects of vaccinations from reading from articles similar to websites as this one ? But the vet made me fearful by saying that all the more I should vaccinate Belle in her senior years as she's in a weakened state of protecting herself against the illnesses.
Finally, after years of my heart-rending and dreaded decision of bringing my dogs in for vaccination, my sweet Belle succumbed in her 17th year.
Bless her. She has had 17 years of good life. And she had given me 17 years of her blessed sweetness.
Now my Was-chu is getting on to 10 years. In 3 or 4 years, I would start to face the dreaded decision each year again of bringing him in for vaccination. Moreso the anti-rabies shot is demanded by law = meaning I'd be a "criminal" if I don't..... how ridiculous our life has become !
If it's said the 21st-century is a high-tech world, why is it that we still have to agonize over the issue of seemingly innocent vaccinations, which may turn out not to be so innocent ?
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jacquie (Eagle River, Alaska) on 11/28/2008:
Liz (Hancock, MI) on 11/25/2008:
Molly (Raleigh, NC) on 11/21/2008:
Julie (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) on 11/15/2008:
Amber (Malden, Missouri) on 11/12/2008:
l.andersen (sun city, az usa) on 11/08/2008:
my 6 year old auss.shepherd male dog. received his rabies shot on aug.18.2008 around mid sept. he started getting sick on and off. i thought it was his food. so i changed it. soon he didnt want to eat much of the food either.then he kept getting sick. i took him to the emergency,his blood work came back he has anemia.he was 52 lbs. now he is 45 lbs. he has never been sick. i am very upset. i am sorry i took him to the vet. i truly believe its from the shot. please if this has happened to others i need to know if there is a connection. thank you. in az.l.andersen
Lara (Springfield, MO) on 10/22/2008:
I found out from my vet that any kind of pork product can induce seizures, even in dogs that aren't epileptic. I stopped giving my dog ham bones (he used to get a lot) and pork and he has not had near as many seizures. Also, I only give him spring water because tap water has chlorine, which is another seizure trigger.
Another trigger that some people may not think of is exposure to fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Even if you do not use these products in your own yard, your neighbors could be spraying them.
As far as the vaccination issue goes, my dog also had his first seizure about one week after his rabies booster.
Leigh Irvin (Farmington, NM) on 10/07/2008:
Barbara (Lighthouse Point, FL USA) on 10/05/2008:
Lynn Frye (Carthage, North Carolina) on 10/03/2008:
I took him back to the vet the next morning. She gave him a muscle relaxer that seemed to work some as he was now lifting his leg up to go to the bathroom and would allow me to hold him.
The following morning he is exhibiting the same effects as of the past night. He is not the spunky run around dog and he cries when I try to lift him up. I am on my way back to the vet as she (who is a Banfield Vet) in Petsmart states she will give Austin medications to reduce the inflammation.
Julie (Nanaimo, British Columbia) on 10/02/2008:
He is also on Purina Hypoallergenic food - hideous stuff; the first ingredient is starch. STARCH! But the damn dog LOVES it. Not that I blame him - Corn Pops are a nutritionists nightmare, but I'd be happy to eat them every day. However that Purina food makes me gag everytime I feed him.
I just wish there was something else that could help him. I've been looking at thuja, but I am not planning on mixing medications - any natural cures I give him could possibly react with the medication he is on and there isn't enough research done for me to know if its reasonably safe to combine.
Alina (Monroe , NC) on 09/30/2008:
Rose (Nashville, TN) on 09/27/2008:
Paul (Spring Hill, FL.) on 09/27/2008:
Carol (Oakdale, Pa) on 09/26/2008:
Dianne (Windsor, On Canada) on 09/22/2008:
Barbara (Los Angeles, CA) on 09/07/2008:
Joyce (Williamstown, New Jersey) on 09/02/2008:
Lisa (mesa, AZ) on 09/01/2008:
Kelly (Atlanta, GA) on 08/26/2008:
Lisa (Wichita falls, US) on 08/25/2008:
Cynthia (Mandeville, Louisiana) on 08/16/2008:
Jackie (San Antonio, TX) on 08/14/2008:
I want to report that my 6-year old feline, Boo, has developed a fibrosarcoma at the shoulder where she was injected with rabies vaccine (Fort Dodge) in March of this year. I know there is no remedy or cure. I just pray that the manufacturers make improvements in the preparation of this vaccine and that vets educate themselves and their pet owners on the risks/preventive measures associated with its administeration. So much is at stake for our beloved pets subject to this required vaccination.
Nicole (Richards Bay, South Africa) on 08/10/2008:
Lynda (Merrimack, NH, USA) on 06/30/2008:
She was due this year for her Rabies Vaccine again, my husband took her a little over a month ago, she began throwing up yellow bile, and a huge amount of blood, her eyes are red again, she is very lethargic, eating only small amounts and has to be carried downstairs to go out to do her business. We took her to a different vet and again her platelet count is down, she now has some doxycycline and some steroids. I have give her the medication an hour ago and hopefully she will make another miraculous recovery.
I will never ever give her another vaccine, this stuff is dangerous.
Angelica (Los Angeles, CA) on 12/03/2008:
Pamela Whitney (Corrales, NM) on 12/01/2008:
This was a perfectly adjusted puppy, happy, playful, not fearful of anything. The new owner reported that he was skiddish, shy and would not walk through doorways. Everyone has been perplexed by this new and strange behavior. A dog trainer was brought in, and stated that this dog had genetic defects. But neither parents demonstrated this behavior, nor did the puppy prior to getting the rabies vaccine.
My internet research has determined that behavior problems are a side effect of a vaccine. It also uncovered that the same amount of vaccine is given to all dogs regardless of their weight and size! All 27 Vet schools are re-examining their vaccine protocols.
I sold a beautiful, happy, well-adjusted puppy who is now coming back to me three weeks later a different dog.
One size fits all vaccines can ruin perfectly healthy puppies. Airlines who require these shots prior to six months of age, which more vets are recommending as the proper age for the first set of shots, should be brought up to date.
Puppy owners, beware of giving shots prior to six months of age!
Wong (NT, Hong Kong) on 11/30/2008:
In 2006, when she was 17 years old, she took the annual vaccination as well as the anti-rabies shot at the same time ( as it was due for the 3-year time frame for the latter).
Within a week, she was sick - turned lethargic, intermittent vomiting. Went to the same vet who gave her the vaccinations. She gave my bitch bagfuls of pills, including some in halves, some in quarters. Had to do it 3 times a day.
My dear Belle was a super darling. The first few days she endured all these pills shoving down her throats, 5 or 6 of them in 5 or 6 shovings, repeated for 3 times a day = imagine, that means a total of close to 20 shovings each day down the throat of a patient who's already not feeling so well.
By about the 5th or 6th day, she started struggling with me during pill shovings, and even when successful, would throw up after 5 minutes with some of the pills seen. As I was not sure if some of the those unseen had been truly ingested by her or dissolved in her vomit, I dared not refeed, in case I would overdose the medicine. But when I didn't, that meant she did not get medicine coverage.
On the 7th day during return visit with the vet, I voiced my concern that all those bags of pills did not seem to make her any better, and each pill-feeding operation had become excruciatingly upsetting and distressing for me and for my dear Belle, as she struggled while I tried to made sure the pills went down her throat, also be careful that it didn't go down too far to choke her.
The vet just said matter-of-factly that "It's difficult. But it had to be done. Those are medicine to treat her." And she packed us off with exactly the same bagfuls of medicine again, to come back in another week.
My Belle had never skipped a meal in her entire 17 years of life. This time she was skipping some meals here and there. I knew in my heart of hearts that something was not right.
What the vet had said about her condition was only some stomach/intestinal disorder, and some of the medicine was for soothing her windpipe = sounded not very alarming, and no specific illness terminology was articulated.
The very night we came back from this return visit, Belle was pacing and yelping at times, obviously distressed. We stayed up with her the whole night. The next morning, I called the vet. She suggested for us to bring her in for something we all sensed at the back of our minds but didn't verbalize on the phone.
Once there, she examined her, and advised me to euthanize her.
There went my sweet Belle.
Within a week of getting her annual vaccination plus anit-rabies shot, she developed illnesses which the vet did not put a specific name to (just general discomfort and the like), and she departed 8 days after seeing the vet.
Meaning she departed after 2 weeks of getting the vaccinations.
I have still to come across a vet who would agree with me that it's the vaccines which took Belle's life.
But how can the connection not be made that my Belle, albeit 17 years old, was healthily eating, walking, pooping, sleeping (the 4 most important indicators of health), suddenly turned down slope in just 1 week after the injections, and departed in 2 ?
Needless to say, I did not go back to the same vet again with my other dogs. Not so much for her inability to save my Belle, but for her uncaring attitude that I should feed those bagfuls of pills to Belle while some dogs revolted even against 1 shoving, so how could the vet think my Belle could take 20 shovings each day, for an entire week, and then another more ?
But the new vet I'm seeing is also a vaccine supporter, and a forceful one at that.
Actually, is there any vet who is not supporting vaccinations, as it is their easy income source ?
I had been agonizing over the issue of "to bring or not to bring" my dogs in for vaccinations each year, especially during the last 4 or 5 years of Belle's life after she turned 'teenager'. Each year, my heart palpitated as I had known the "evil" effects of vaccinations from reading from articles similar to websites as this one ? But the vet made me fearful by saying that all the more I should vaccinate Belle in her senior years as she's in a weakened state of protecting herself against the illnesses.
Finally, after years of my heart-rending and dreaded decision of bringing my dogs in for vaccination, my sweet Belle succumbed in her 17th year.
Bless her. She has had 17 years of good life. And she had given me 17 years of her blessed sweetness.
Now my Was-chu is getting on to 10 years. In 3 or 4 years, I would start to face the dreaded decision each year again of bringing him in for vaccination. Moreso the anti-rabies shot is demanded by law = meaning I'd be a "criminal" if I don't..... how ridiculous our life has become !
If it's said the 21st-century is a high-tech world, why is it that we still have to agonize over the issue of seemingly innocent vaccinations, which may turn out not to be so innocent ?
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jeri (Fairfield, Iowa) on 11/28/2008:
Jacquie (Eagle River, Alaska) on 11/28/2008:
Liz (Hancock, MI) on 11/25/2008:
Molly (Raleigh, NC) on 11/21/2008:
Julie (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) on 11/15/2008:
Amber (Malden, Missouri) on 11/12/2008:
l.andersen (sun city, az usa) on 11/08/2008:
my 6 year old auss.shepherd male dog. received his rabies shot on aug.18.2008 around mid sept. he started getting sick on and off. i thought it was his food. so i changed it. soon he didnt want to eat much of the food either.then he kept getting sick. i took him to the emergency,his blood work came back he has anemia.he was 52 lbs. now he is 45 lbs. he has never been sick. i am very upset. i am sorry i took him to the vet. i truly believe its from the shot. please if this has happened to others i need to know if there is a connection. thank you. in az.l.andersen
Lara (Springfield, MO) on 10/22/2008:
I found out from my vet that any kind of pork product can induce seizures, even in dogs that aren't epileptic. I stopped giving my dog ham bones (he used to get a lot) and pork and he has not had near as many seizures. Also, I only give him spring water because tap water has chlorine, which is another seizure trigger.
Another trigger that some people may not think of is exposure to fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Even if you do not use these products in your own yard, your neighbors could be spraying them.
As far as the vaccination issue goes, my dog also had his first seizure about one week after his rabies booster.
Leigh Irvin (Farmington, NM) on 10/07/2008:
Barbara (Lighthouse Point, FL USA) on 10/05/2008:
Lynn Frye (Carthage, North Carolina) on 10/03/2008:
I took him back to the vet the next morning. She gave him a muscle relaxer that seemed to work some as he was now lifting his leg up to go to the bathroom and would allow me to hold him.
The following morning he is exhibiting the same effects as of the past night. He is not the spunky run around dog and he cries when I try to lift him up. I am on my way back to the vet as she (who is a Banfield Vet) in Petsmart states she will give Austin medications to reduce the inflammation.
Julie (Nanaimo, British Columbia) on 10/02/2008:
He is also on Purina Hypoallergenic food - hideous stuff; the first ingredient is starch. STARCH! But the damn dog LOVES it. Not that I blame him - Corn Pops are a nutritionists nightmare, but I'd be happy to eat them every day. However that Purina food makes me gag everytime I feed him.
I just wish there was something else that could help him. I've been looking at thuja, but I am not planning on mixing medications - any natural cures I give him could possibly react with the medication he is on and there isn't enough research done for me to know if its reasonably safe to combine.
Alina (Monroe , NC) on 09/30/2008:
Rose (Nashville, TN) on 09/27/2008:
Paul (Spring Hill, FL.) on 09/27/2008:
Carol (Oakdale, Pa) on 09/26/2008:
Dianne (Windsor, On Canada) on 09/22/2008:
Barbara (Los Angeles, CA) on 09/07/2008:
Joyce (Williamstown, New Jersey) on 09/02/2008:
Lisa (mesa, AZ) on 09/01/2008:
Kelly (Atlanta, GA) on 08/26/2008:
Lisa (Wichita falls, US) on 08/25/2008:
Cynthia (Mandeville, Louisiana) on 08/16/2008:
Jackie (San Antonio, TX) on 08/14/2008:
I want to report that my 6-year old feline, Boo, has developed a fibrosarcoma at the shoulder where she was injected with rabies vaccine (Fort Dodge) in March of this year. I know there is no remedy or cure. I just pray that the manufacturers make improvements in the preparation of this vaccine and that vets educate themselves and their pet owners on the risks/preventive measures associated with its administeration. So much is at stake for our beloved pets subject to this required vaccination.
Nicole (Richards Bay, South Africa) on 08/10/2008:
Lynda (Merrimack, NH, USA) on 06/30/2008:
She was due this year for her Rabies Vaccine again, my husband took her a little over a month ago, she began throwing up yellow bile, and a huge amount of blood, her eyes are red again, she is very lethargic, eating only small amounts and has to be carried downstairs to go out to do her business. We took her to a different vet and again her platelet count is down, she now has some doxycycline and some steroids. I have give her the medication an hour ago and hopefully she will make another miraculous recovery.
I will never ever give her another vaccine, this stuff is dangerous.
