Replies on How To Avoid All Vaccines, even rabies vaccination.

Just ignore them

In my county after you receive a third notice of your pets rabies/county license expiring an animal control officer knocks on your door, if you answer they will explain why they are showing up and hand you a citation that must be paid in a certain time frame. Plus you must get your pets current on rabies/license or they will show up again with a court summons and yes you can be arrested on the misdemeanor county ordinance violation. The only way to get around it in my county is to lie and say your pet is deceased, check the box on the reminder notice and mail it back. Once they receive it your info will be removed out their computer system. Can't really check deceased if its a young animal you adopted from.the county shelter because surely that wouldn't look right and may prevent you from being able to adopt again. You could say you gave your pet away and fill out the change of ownership form and mail it in but you would need to name a new owner and address on the form. I know someone who did that and used a friends name who lived in another county and the other county never came out to her friends residence about not transferring the animals license. My county is big and only has 8 animal control officers and believe me they do find a way to make time to pay you a visit if you're not in compliance. Our county pet fees went from $15 a year to $40. Many cannot afford that increase so good luck.

You can avoid all rabies vaccines and still obtain a dog license renewal by having an animal hospital perform a titer exam. It takes 2 weeks for the results to come back, whereupon the doctor of veterinary medicine fills out a government form indicating that your dog has the rabies antibodies and does not require any further inoculations for the rabies. Not complicated. The rabies titer exam is the most expensive at $310, but it's a one-time fee. There are also titer exams for all of the other inoculations like distemper, which cost about $65 or less. Either the dog has the antibodies or it doesn't. Not vaccinating at all is just as insane as over-vaccinating. At one year of age, a dog can receive all of the exams in lieu of vaccinating. If the dog does not have the antibodies for the rabies viral infection, the dog must be vaccinated to protect the general public. As for the distemper and parvo viruses, dogs can survive these infections with extensive inpatient hospitalizations. Most dogs are fully immunized at the dog shows, but if everyone stopped vaccinating altogether, then there would be outbreaks of disease. Common sense. Not vaccinating at all without conducting scientific titer exams to determine the dog's immunity is nonsensical and unscientific. If the dog has the antibodies, then the dog should not be vaccinated. The only vaccine and titer exam required by law is the immunization for rabies. The other vaccines are not required by law. After one year of age, the dog should have the lifetime antibodies for the parvo and distemper viruses, if correctly inoculated.

If I understand correctly the immunity for the puppy comes from the vaccinated dam - if this puppy goes on to eventually produce litters will those puppies have immunity? Thank you for your inspiring information
I was recently at the Auburn University's small tanimal hospital (they are a teaching hospital as well as clinic)
I spoke to the head of the hospital about vaccines and was told that my information was incorrect!!(from the head of the department). Of course I didn't have that attitude YET.