Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
Dogs used in all kinds of service are often required to get way more vaccinations than immmunology would dictate they need. Conscious owners, knowing the damaging effects of further vaccination, often pull their dogs from the programs, rather than subject them to further health challenges.
It's an area that's likely going to be very slow to change. Why? The CYA in large organizations rules.
A real shame that great dogs are lost to service careers due to fears ruling over sound information to the contrary. I recently had a very sad case of a brilliant drug detector dog, a big Lab with a huge love for his work, falling apart with epilepsy and crippling arthritis after years of medical, and especially vaccination, abuse. Everyone who knows him is sad, but no one sees that his illness was not happenstance: it was caused by too much "prevention."