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What do you do when your Vet says that Rabies vaccine is the law and if I don’t vax every 3 yrs he can’t continue to see my dogs? Why aren’t titers acceptable proof of immunity??

I know it has been a few days, but I finally have a chance to comment back to you.
My TCM vet is a woman (Kansas City metro area) & I absolutely recommend her to every one I can. (At the same time, I also point them to you! What a 'dynamic duo'!)
She has many patients that travel from out-of-state to see her. Years ago, she helped my Yorkie to reverse the bone spurs he had developed in his neck from running up & down the stairs, jumping on & off the furniture & from a poor diet. Once she began treating him & I changed his diet, the bone spurs eventually dissolved! We LOVE the 'Natural Path'!

I was recently at my vets office for a rare visit with a dog who had badly broken a toenail to an extent beyond my skills to treat. They began to badger me about her vaccines, she's 9 and hasn't had a vaccine since she was 4-1/2. She's over vaccinated in my opinion and won't ever get any more. But in the heat of the moment I admit to feeling very bullied and almost giving in to a rabies vaccine. But in that very moment I paused and looked down at my dog and she turned and looked directly into my eyes and held the stare. That was all I needed. She couldn't advocate or speak for herself. She only has ME to do that for her. It was all I needed to regain my strength on her behalf. It hurts my heart when I remember the dogs of my past and how I blindly followed my vets advice on everything. I trusted them and it just hurts me because I can look back now and point to so many things that were just wrong and how it negatively impacted my dogs health. It makes me furious. But I've learned so much in the last several years, thanks in large part to you Dr. Will, and now, going forward, my dogs live a different life and we stay out of the vets office except for the rare oddball emergency. I have learned to say no and mean it. I'll just never forget that look from my dog at just the right moment.

Dearest Dr Will --- Love the way you expressed your experience! And thank you sooooo much for all the info you share, as well as providing a place for like-minded pet parents to learn & to share.

I believe my male Great Dane lived as long as he did (10.5 yrs) due to chiropractic care, acupuncture, better food, natural supplements, intact and no vaccines (other than some puppy shots, as he was not mine yet). I was privileged to have a wonderful vet who practiced TCM and had been caring for my other pups for several years before I ever adopted my Dane.

He was born with a cervical deformity (aka 'wobblers') that worsens with age and many Danes with it are 'put down' as early as 3-4 yrs of age. I believe that the care I gave him, starting at about 4 months of age when I adopted him, allowed him to live far longer than most do with the condition. He out-lived many of his litter mates (there were 12!)

I was on a 'natural path' before ever I was privileged to 'meet' you, so the minute I 'met' you, I knew you were of 'my tribe'! Stay true to your path / carry on in love!

PS: Love all your pics!

I have been following Dr Will for about 2 years now. My dogs are fed totally raw with Organic veges and fruit, plus more. Since they both came from shelters, they received the required puppy shots including rabies. I intend to never vaccinate my dogs again. I took Dr. Will's courses on Rabies and Heartworm and now felt very well educated and ready to face the vet. I called 6 vet clinics and they all refused to do a heartworm test without doing a wellness check which included making sure that the rabies was up to date. I was very angry and had no choice but to submit to the rabies. I did use Adored Beast Anti Vaccinosis and Fido's Flora (probiotics) to help counteract any damages.

Dr. Will said to have the dogs tested for heartworm. Now the trouble is that the test also screens for lyme and other tick borne diseases. Great...now my dogs tested positive for lyme exposure. The vet recommended a $160 blood test to check the level of antibody present...or just treat with Doxicycline for 30 days. Dr Will has given me the confidence I need to say NO to all of it. My dogs are healthy VITAL pack dogs and their immune system will keep them that way. Oh... vet also suggested the Lyme vaccine. Yeah right...if they have antibody present, why would I want to give them vaccine !?!

Can the Rabies nosodes be used in place of the vaccine and be legal? How do I test for heartworm and get around having to get the Rabies vaccine ?....Besides moving to Canada.

I hope that somehow this can all be changed. It just makes me want to cry.

Thank you so much...Dr Will. !!!!

I fit the description in your blog post. I trusted my vet to know what was best for my dogs just like I trusted my UCLA endocrinologist. That is until I had to look at the ugly truth that it was all about the money. I asked myself how did my Maltese dog Misty live to be 13 with a heart condition, exposure to fleas from stray cats in our old neighborhood and Velvie didn't make it to her 10th birthday? Velvie had fleas one time in her whole life and was treated once for fleas. She became sick beginning at 4 with rashes and ear infections. What she had that Misty didn't have was vaccines for everything. I was traveling a lot with my job and I boarded her with the vet. Misty on the other hand was taken care of by our friend who owned a pet shop.

I realized that I hurt my dog and hurt myself by trusting the so called "Professionals". Destiny and Freddie had their puppy shots and were titer tested there after, trying to comply with the law they have had rabies vax every three years. I mostly made organic meats and veggies for them with a small amount of organic kibble. They were never sick. No rashes and no ear infections.

Quite suddenly or at least it seemed that way to me Desy became very sick and in less than 30 days we lost our baby. I realized even though I tried I failed her . Too bad I only stood up to the vet on steroids and I didn't say no on the rabies shots.

Just because her illness didn't seem apparent didn't mean it hadn't been lurking hidden in her body from the naked eye. Her life mattered to me. I decided to table the novel I've been writing and to tell her story "The vaccine time bomb lurking in my pet" or something like that.

I was once blindly following the "norm" because I misplaced my trust into an untrustworthy system. I understand now that we are being fed a lot of garbage as truth and am questioning these "norms". It's difficult to see friends follow the norm for their pets despite trying to steer them to a different path by providing factual information that they themselves could go look up as easily as they get on FB, but won't. It's difficult to see their pets suffer and suggest alternatives to them and watch them continue with the "norm".

I have been trying to do the best for my puppy. Nosodes instead of vaccinations, we were not going to neuter but he was having behavioral issues so we neutered at almost 2 years. He eats whole food, we tried raw food, but slightly cooked is best for him. He started doing this crazy sniffing the air, and then hiding behavior at close to a year. We've tried accupuncture, chiropractic, empaths. It might be called stargazing. We cannot find the trigger. Please point me in a direction to find help for this poor baby.

I don't normally reply to things like this, but I feel so strongly about these subjects. I want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU DR FALCONER. What would we do without pioneers like you to blaze the trail? I hope we can all be a grass roots effort to change the culture for the good of our pets and everyone's pets---I'm told it only takes about 15% to change the market-since everything is driven by money in our country--- maybe we can do something together.

I was there and remember your experience on the table and afterwards as you shared those moments with the rest of us. Your blog is a great reminder for me and I'm sure others who are consciously on this path but sometimes feel a bit uncertain and overwhelmed because it gets a little wobbly with rocks and stickers. Thanks for sharing.

Yes both my first dog and cats had all the chronic diseases listed on your list at the bottom of your article. I obeyed Dr Whitecoat and did it all, annual vaccines, toxic prescription meds, toxic flea tick pesticides, toxic heartworm pesticides and it was a failure on all counts. I thought I didn't know anything about pet health. So I obeyed and the vets loved all the money they made off of my ignorance.
But with all the suffering, worry, and many vet visits and many thousands in vet bills, I knew something was wrong. How can perfectly healthy pets become sicker and sicker from going to the vet?
This peeked my awareness level even before the internet. It was time to learn, and ask questions everywhere. I gathered info from others, at dog walk events, anyone with pets, dog and cat magazines, etc. Most info was not good back then, and most pet owners were uninformed like me. I started using my common sense making health decisions that seemed would be right. I made some good decisions that did help health wise. I dealt with vet surgeons trying to sell me $6000 tplo surgery for socalled cruciate disease, but was dead set against surgery, it was just so wrong. I ended up getting a custom acl ccl posh dog knee brace to support the knee. The knee healed and no surgery ever. The vet was so angry when I brought my dog in wearing the posh knee brace. Said I disobeyed her orders to buy surgery from the orthopedic surgeon I was referred to. This was the only time my vet ever called me, to try to get me to schedule the tplo surgery. I was clear on the phone, if I want to buy surgery, I am capable of making a phone call myself and hung up. It was all down hill with my vets after I brought my dog in wearing a dog knee brace. I was hated. I showed them how well my dog healed after no longer needing the brace, the vets had no interest in my dogs success of healing without painful unnecessary surgery.

Next dog, no more vaccines. No puppy vaccines. I used parvo nosodes and distemper nosodes and rabies nosodes as the safe natural alternatives. I read articles in dogsnaturallymagazine, and online I joined VitalAnimal.com and any other real holistic homeopathic or naturopathic enewsletter. My dog eats a natural diet now with natural supplements. No chronic illness at all. No vet bills. I take a few online courses occasionally to learn more. I read online and read books about natural, homeopathic and holistic health for people too, and a lot of that translates to dogs.
I have learned a wealth of information. I am informed, still lots to learn, my pleasure reading, is usually information reading, always learning more about pet and people health and true history. One does need to learn the true history of health to understand why our health system for people and pets is completely broken. All allopathic care is for great profits, not for health. I have learned why the powerful elite and wealthy investors invest in the vaccine industry for massive profits but never vaccinate themselves, never vaccinate their kids and never vaccinate their pets. The wealthy elite upper classes are informed about true health. While the commoners are brainwashed by tv and mainstream media. Most masses and commoners seem incapable of questioning what they are told by the media, gov, big pharma, big food, medical industry, cancer industry and the education industry. The masses are taught in schools to bow and obey. Obedience means to beat into submission. Never question authority. Be submissive. Never ask questions. Do as you are told. Buy what we tell you to buy. Read what we tell you to read, watch what we tell you to watch. Let the upperclass walk all over the middle and low class commoners, as the upperclass laughs all the way to the bank. And everyone else is struggling to survive, getting sicker and sicker from vaccines, toxic medicines, toxic chemicals in all parts of our lives to cause chronic illness, disease, cancer and an early death.
I try to spread the info to pet parents when I can and if they are open minded to learning. Some are closed minded and want to continue down the hell path and spend a fortune for chronically ill pets, those I cannot help. I tell all pet lovers to join VitalAnimal.com as the best starting point to start learning about pet health. When you learn better, you do better. I have had great results with natural, homeopathic and holistic, and there is no turning back. Thanks again Dr Falconer for the wealth of info I have learned from you over the years. My pets would not be so healthy without you guiding us to pet health.