Why do I need to vaccinate my puppy?
In the old days, we let our dogs run around outside in the dirt and threw real sticks rather than sterilized Kongs like people do nowdays. Our dogs developed immunities gradually as they were exposed, not all in one like they do now with vaccinations. My dogs all survived.
I would rather buy her healthy food and stimulate her immune system to act properly if he ever comes across a disease than inject her with those chemicals which "they" say are safe, but we all know "they" lie and want only to make money.
Now they want me to bring my young puppy in to inject multiple diseases into him at the same time every couple months. I am worried about overwhelming her sensitive immune system and don't really see the need for these vaccines anyway. I don't take him around sick dogs and if the vaccines were any good, they'd last forever.
I don't know of any dog who has had rabies, it isn't where I live so why should I risk my sweet fluffy puppy and expose her to all those nasty chemicals?
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Puppies are cute. 
Well done.
diseases that were once eradicated does. Unbelievable! 
And endangering others does feel right?
about pet vaccinations and the changes from the vaccination regime "in the old days."** Not to mention that one of the concerns is related to aluminum salts - a common adjuvant in human vaccinations.
As a result of all this research, there have been changes in the way vaccines are made and administered. Some manufacturers have stopped putting aluminum salts in vaccines, and veterinarians now give injections in cats' upper legs. If a sarcoma does occur, the entire leg can be amputated to prevent and limit the recurrence of the cancer.
Vaccination schedules have also changed. In the past, veterinarians prescribed annual vaccines. Now veterinarians may recommend that they be given every three years to cats at low risk. Researchers have found that vaccines often provide immunity far beyond one year, reducing the need for frequent revaccinations. Rabies vaccinations at certain intervals may be required by law.
http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/cats/tips/feline_vaccine_related_sarcoma.html
The link is not as well established in dogs, but there are similar concerns in that population.
The cause for the sarcoma development is unknown, but it is believed that local inflammation must first occur for the malignant mass to follow. In addition, initial reports focused on vaccine adjuvants (assisting ingredients) containing aluminum as a potential cause of the sarcoma. However, the role of aluminum is unclear because not all adjuvants used in the vaccines that have been associated with sarcoma formation have contained aluminum.
http://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/cancer/c_dg_vaccine_sarcoma
Particularly since the rabies vaccine is implicated, your rabies analogy may not be as convincing as intended, if the point is to poke fun at people who reject vaccinations, or use them selectively.
**in the old days, vaccines were given in infancy without repeats. The move to annual vaccinations for animals is a change, not from no vaccinations - but from infancy only vaccinations.
Yeah, brilliant. 
Response to former9thward (Reply #13)
It was the first day they were available. Just got their first round of immunizations, and being spayed and neutered.
This was on Wed. evening. About 2 weeks later the rescue President called me and asked if he had any symptoms of Parvo. Bloody stools, lethargy, lack of appetite and nausea. I replied that to the contrary, he was the exact opposite. Crazy, energetic, and would eat anything you put in front of his face.
It seemed that two days after we took him home, they took the rest of the litters to an adoption event in St. Pete, and they all contracted Parvo there. Almost all of them died. After being adopted out. Even after they get their shots, it takes a couple of weeks for them to work completely. We got lucky, and so did another person who took home another from the litter at the same time.
He's the black one.
She's with Sparty! 
the post you are replying to is sarcasm. Notice the in it? It is not meant seriously and I do vaccinate.
This jabbery partaken of by DUers across threads gets tiresome. Put the notebooks and the printscreens and bookmarks away, people. He missed the sarcasm tag. I don't care what post you were referring to, it still makes DU suck.
I have no idea what you have or haven't posted in your time here on DU, because I don't reference what you have or haven't posted across threads. 
See? I'm with the anti-note-taking brigade.
For making DU suck.
Edited for missing apostrophe.
I do behoove you to put away the notebook and bookmarks.
A few weeks ago, someone dredged up a 3-year old post to defend themselves against another poster. Who has time to remember what one person says to another this week last week or the week before that... on the Internets??? Life is short...clear your cache, go for a walk...breathe... spend time with your loved ones. You never know what can happen from day to day. I hope this makes you think about things like the Palin commentary about whatever poster upset you.
I had hoped this might be "tongue-in-cheek"... 
The number of rabies-related human deaths in the United States has declined from more than 100 annually at the turn of the century to one or two per year in the 1990's. Modern day prophylaxis has proven nearly 100% successful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_rabies#United_States
Rabies was once rare in the United States outside the Southern states, but raccoons in the mid-Atlantic and northeast United States have been suffering from a rabies epidemic since the 1970s, that is now moving westwards into Ohio.[13]
The particular variant of the virus has been identified in the southeastern United States raccoon population since the 1950s, and is believed to have traveled to the northeast as the result of infected raccoons being among those caught and transported from the southeast to the northeast by human hunters attempting to replenish the declining northeast raccoon population.[14] As a result, urban residents of these areas have become more wary of the large but normally unseen urban raccoon population. It has become the common assumption that any raccoon seen diurnally is infected; certainly the reported behavior of most such animals appears to show some sort of illness, and necropsies can confirm rabies. Whether as a result of increased vigilance or only the common human avoidance reaction to any other animal not normally seen, such as a raccoon, there has only been one documented human rabies case as a result of this variant.[15][16] This does not include, however, the greatly increasing rate of prophylactic rabies treatments in cases of possible exposure, which numbered fewer than one hundred humans annually in the state of New York before 1990, for instance, but rose to approximately ten thousand annually between 1990 and 1995. At approximately $1,500 per course of treatment, this represents a considerable public health expenditure. Raccoons do constitute approximately 50% of the approximately eight thousand documented non-human rabies cases in the United States.[17] Domestic animals constitute only 8% of rabies cases, but are increasing at a rapid rate.[17]
In the midwestern United States, skunks are the primary carriers of rabies, composing 134 of the 237 documented non-human cases in 1996. The most widely distributed reservoir of rabies in the United States, however, and the source of most human cases in the U.S., are bats. Nineteen of the twenty-two human rabies cases documented in the United States between 1980 and 1997 have been identified genetically as bat rabies. In many cases, victims are not even aware of having been bitten by a bat, assuming that a small puncture wound found after the fact was the bite of an insect or spider; in some cases, no wound at all can be found, leading to the hypothesis that in some cases the virus can be contracted via inhaling airborne aerosols from the vicinity of bats. For instance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on May 9, 1997, that a woman who died in October, 1996 in Cumberland County, Kentucky and a man who died in December, 1996 in Missoula County, Montana were both infected with a rabies strain found in silver-haired bats; although bats were found living in the chimney of the woman's home and near the man's workplace, neither victim could remember having had any contact with them.[18] Similar reports among spelunkers led to experimental demonstration in animals.[19] This inability to recognize a potential infection, in contrast to a bite from a dog or raccoon, leads to a lack of proper prophylactic treatment, and is the cause of the high mortality rate for bat bites.
On September 7, 2007, rabies expert Dr. Charles Rupprecht of Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that canine rabies had disappeared from the United States. Rupprecht emphasized that the disappearance of the canine-specific strain of rabies virus in the US does not eliminate the need for dog rabies vaccination as dogs can still become infected from exposure to wildlife.[20]
