vaccinations

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher

The issue of whether to vaccinate your dog, how often to vaccinate, and what to vaccinate your dog for is often a controversal one in the animal medical community. Here's the scenario:

You bring your dog into the vet's office for a physical and the vet says that your dog needs its shots or needs to update its shots. The vet wants to give two or three shots, rabies and other shots which are single or combinations shots that cover several diseases. Your dog could end up having rabies, distemper, parvo, kennel cough, lyme, lepto, hepatitis, carona virus, giardia and more shot directly into their sytem at one time. Do you have any idea what you have just done to your dog's immune system? STOP AND LEARN. YOU HAVE CHOICES OVER WHAT VACCINATIONS TO GIVE TO YOUR DOG. DO YOUR RESEARCH AND MAKE INFORMED CHOICES BEFORE YOU WALK INTO THE VET'S OFFICE AND ACCEPT THIS POTENTIAL COCKTAIL OF DEATH AND DISEASE.

As your dog's guardian, you should know the laws concerning what vaccines are legally required and what vaccines are optional. You should also know what each vaccine can potentially do for your dog; the dangers and benefits of each and every vaccine that you consider to inject into your dog's body.

Here are several books that discuss vaccines and your choices about how to vaccinate. Please find a vet, either conventional or holistic, that will work with you and respect the way you choose to vaccinate.

• What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccines
• Shock to the System: The Facts About Animal Vaccination, Pet Food And How to Keep Your Pets Healthy
• Holistic Guide for a Healthy Dog (Howell Reference Books)
• Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs: Small Doses for Small Animals
• The Nature of Animal Healing : The Definitive Holistic Medicine Guide to Caring for Your Dog and Cat
• Dr. Pitcairn's New Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats

Some of the topics these books will cover are principles of vaccination, adverse reactions to vaccinations, why we give annual vaccinations if they are not necessary, how vaccines do not immunize, how vaccines are poisons and can cause the disease they are created to prevent, how vaccinations can replace acute illnesses with chronic diseases, vaccination and brain damage, how overvaccination, stress and poor nutrition are making our dogs sick, autoimmune disorders, cancer and more. They will also cover alternatives to conventional vaccination, homeopathic remedies and good nutrition.

Vaccine Reactions Here are three websites devoted to keeping the public up to date about vaccine reactions, issues and recalls for animals as well as people. Bookmark these and check them to keep current about vaccine problems:

• DogsAdverseReactions.com dedicated organization for our pets general safety
• VaccinationNews.com provides a wide range of news and views on vaccinations and vaccination policies, including recalls
• Critter Advocacy provides vaccine protocols and vaccine warnings about dangerous and/or unnecessary vaccines
• Shorti-Online.Org learn the risks of Feline Vaccine Related Sarcoma

Diseases/Conditions Caused by Vaccinations In Catherine O'Driscoll's book What Vets Don't Tell You About Vaccinations, Chapter Eleven, you will find the results of a Canine Health Census Vaccine Survey. This CHC vaccine survey was first launced in 1996. Dr. Christopher Day, Dr. Jeane Dodds and Dr. Viera Scheibner devised a questionaire, results of which show the percentages of dogs that became sick within seven days to three months of vaccination with

• arthritis
• diarrhea
• allergies
• autoimmune disease
• dry/eye/conjunctivits
• colitis
• epilepsy
• loss of appetite
• nasal discharges
• nervous/worrying disposition
• skin problems
• vomiting
• weight loss
• behavioral problems
• tumors at or growths at the vaccination site

Diseases dogs actually contracted after vaccination which shows that the vaccines did not provide any protection:

• hepatitis
• parainfluenza
• parvovirus
• distemper
• leptospirosis

Catherine O'Driscoll's book Shock to the System reports on a report by the Vaccine Research Group at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in Chapter Two which was published in 1997. The Purdue Study indicates the following immune-mediated diseases (where the animal's body is attacking itself) that vaccines might trigger:

• Hashimoto's thyroiditis
• Addison's disease
• rheumatoid arthritis
• systemic Lupus Erythamotosus (SLE)
• idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
• haemolytic anaemia
• chronic active hepatitis
• diabetes mellitus
• hypogonadism
• yasthenia gravis
• pemphigus, vitiligo
• glomerulonephritis
• alopecia
• Grave's disease
• hypoparathyroidism
• seizures and other neurological manifestations
• uveitis