How many vaccinate your own puppies? - Page 2

So what's the bitch?  You knew she'd be wormed again on that visit.  She had an exam and two vaccinations, rabies tag and certificate.  There's an office visit charge.  $108.00 isn't as bad as some for that many proceedures and services.  Keep the vet if you're sure the vet is knowledgeable and attentive and the establishment is clean and well maintained. 

It was her final puppy shot and her Rabies was administered at the same time.  She won't need another shot for a while yet.  By that time she should have another checkup anyway.

 ME DO>>>for 28 years Ive given my own shots, wormed and take the litter to my vet week before the are 8 weeks old..He listens to heart, checks them from head to toe, charges me $25,00 ., gives me a hug and back home I go..New owners get a copy of the vet bill showing 7 pups of such and such examined. A certificate from me showing the label off the bottle of shot( 2 part) is attached on cert. and I have never , ever lost a pup to parvo, distemper or sold a dog sick of had any issues with any person in all these years..New owner is then to the vet in three weeks  .I educate them in a period to reworm ,where to buy the wormer and when the vets see my pups they are well impressed., So there is not a reason in the world why to pay a vet for a 6.95 shot and a 14.cent wormer the price you were charged.

I administer the clean out shot for my females, birth my pups and spend 1000 hours raising the pups and tending to them and the dam. I also administer my heartworm prevention and buy it in a bottle with a syrynge to administer., it....Education is priceless. SAVED ME TONS SO i CAN BUY DOG FOOD AND RAW MEATS

Yeah, I'm a breeder and I give my own shots.  Not only that, but I give booster shots to my pups if the buyers are local and they bring them back at the appropriate time.  A shot costs me about $5.  My buyers take the dog to the vet and the vet charges them $50 or more.  Or talk them into that stupid puppy package....$250 for shots and an occassional checkup!  One very nice lady told me that she bought the puppy package, and after her vet gave the pup's shot, the vet checked her 10 week old Great Dane puppy over and declared it free of hip dysplasia WITHOUT taking xrays.  How unethical is that?!!

Veronica

We vaccinate our own pups and adults, 5 ways and boosters, that I buy directly from my vet in 10 dose vials, for about $3.85 a vaccine.  Our puppies get a vet visit at 8 weeks, for the cost of $20 a pup, but this is what it includes: A health cert stating their present health, a fecal exam, worming if needed, a complete check over, heart, ears, etc. Any pup we keep or have for ourselves, we are charged $12 for the Rabies vaccine if for 1-2 dogs, $10 for anything over 2.  My vet is a country vet and doesn't beleive in charging outrageous charges, however I have to drive 45 miles to him and I never pay an office call, we have a local vet, they charge $50 for an office call, $35 for rabies, and $40 for annual 7 ways. I only used them once in an emergency and it was a bill i quivered to see.  This vet here charges $160 for a spay/neuter and my country vet 45 miles away charges $50, for the exact same procedure.  they charge $80 here for a health cert and my country vet charges $11, big difference!!  So some charge outrageous prices for nothing, just to live in a big house and eat tbones everynight.  My vet has a farm, eats what he wants and still charges us very minimally.

$108 for a visit and rabies a worming pill with no fecal to see if she even needed it, and some chese whiz, you were cheated!

I have always vaccinated my pups and the price was around $5.00 each.  Had a friend show me the first time and nothing to it and much cheaper.

I don't do the first set of shots myself. I feel better that the vet checks them all and immunizes them all before they go to their new home. If I have them beyond the initial puppy shot and check up, I then finish them myself.

I also immunize my adults. I was doing every 2 years but now I think I am going to get the titre and skip unnecessary boosters. I guess by law I have to do Rabies at the vet so I will continue this.

And after switching to the raw diet, I haven't had any worms in a litter. I bring a stool sample at age 2,4, and 6 weeks to check.

I use to go to my vet for the initial visit with pups(shot's etc), but I am now going to be doing their shot's myself. I will still take the pups for a complete health check, but for shot's I will be doing it from now on. I just gave 3 of my dog's their rabies shot's yesterday. I'm not one with needle's, but I am happy that I did get over my fear of needles and did it  :-)

One of my driving factors in giving shots was that i hated bringing very healthy pups to the vet's where hundreds of other sick dogs have been. May be over protective but just being careful..

The only times my pups see a vet is if there's something wrong with them, for rabies vaccinations, and health certificates for shipping. I give the rest of the vaccinations and treatments myself. The last place I want to take a perfectly healthy puppy is to a vet's office, where they are liable to pick up something from a SICK animal.

Additionally, when we DO go, the pups' feet never touch the ground from the van to the exam table, and certainly not the grass where they could stick their noses in something infectious.

SS

If you have to take a pup to the vets>>>>>>>>>>

One  thing you can do is leave the pups in your vehicle(having someone with them) and when the vet is ready carry them direct to the exam room and then reurn direct back to your vehicle. Even if you carry them in a basket or whatever; people in the vets office always want to touch or pet them and they could have something on their hands. That way no one thinks you are mean if you don't want  a kid petting your pup.