Dog Lovers
Like you, Elizabeth, all our previous rescue dogs suffered health problems, including miasms from the vaccines they received. Some of the dogs were 3-4 years older than what the rescue told us, too. They won't run titers; we asked and were told it was too expensive. Really? It's about $120 at Hemopet in CA. That's nothing in comparison to what it costs the new owner in $$$ and heartache, and the animal suffers lifelong diseases. It's sad there are so many shelter and rescue animals, but with all the over-vaccination and who knows what the animals have had, we've decided our new dogs will only come from a natural rearing breeder who feeds raw meat and never vaccinates. "Conventional" breeders over-vaccinate, too and many of them vaccinate too young also. We've owned two of those dogs and they were no better than the rescue dogs.
Our neighbor adopted a 2 year old small Shih Tzu from a rescue. He came from a shelter and was given something like 7 vaccines in 4 days; 1 was rabies. About 4 weeks after they got him, he became very agitated and aggressive to other dogs and people. He tried to attack every dog he saw and bit 5 people. All of this was completely unprovoked. They contacted the rescue but they didn't offer any help or even a partial refund. One of the people who was bitten reported it to the shelter. Animal control confiscated the dog and had him euthanized. They wouldn't allow the family to try anything to help the poor dog. Chances are the dog had been vaccinated before it ever got to the shelter. It's a tragedy that left a wonderful family devastated and an innocent dog killed.