By:  Catrherine O’Driscoll Running Canine Health Concern for the past sixteen years, I have been contacted by hundreds of dog owners  who tell me that their dogs became ill within a few hours, days or weeks of a vaccine event.   Indeed, I formed Canine Health Concern after three of my own young dogs died of [...]

by Jan Rasmusen  Whombo combos, mumbo jumbos: that’s what veterinarians who understand immunology call combination shots. Unlike a vaccine such as rabies, which contains a single virus, combination vaccines contain multiple “modified live” viruses mixed with various bacteria. Think of them as toxic soups, biochemical wolves in sheep’s clothing. When your vet sends out reminders [...]

Ronald D. Schultz, Professor and Chair Department of Patho-biological Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison It has been common practice since the development of canine vaccines in the late 1950′s to administer them annually. The recommendation to vaccinate annually was based on the assumption that immunity would wane in some dogs, thus to [...]

Pet owners are becoming increasingly aware of the long period of duration for vaccines and are vaccinating every three years, or not vaccinating their adult or senior dogs at all. Although it is becoming increasingly obvious that yearly boosters – or any boosters – are at best unnecessary and at worst harmful, the risks and [...]

Do you really regularly see puppies dying of distemper? That’s a first for me, the vets I speak to in the UK tell me they haven’t seen a case of distemper in ten years. As for parvo, there are examples in my book of vaccinated pups dying of it, with expert opinion stating it was [...]