Vaccinosis? - Page 1

I have been reading alot about how bad all these vaccines are for pups and dogs, but my question is what about deworming young pups at 2, 4 & 6 weeks? Does this fall under the same category? I am really interested in keeping my dogs chemical free . I would really appreciate your insight to this for I am new to trying to keep my dogs chemical free.

I have never understood the need to push toxix substances down 2 week old puppies.  We would never do this to our own children at 2 weeks of age!!  I never worm until 6 weeks and then again at 8 weeks just a couple of days before they go to their new homes.  We never see any worms and the puppies at that age are not knocked back at all by the wormer and are always nice and plump and never wormy looking.  Just my way of doing it but it has work well for 30 years!  Nikki

I agree too much deworming/vaccinating going on right now. Personally, though I don't breed so rarely have pups unless rescue etc, we just run a stool sample check every 6 months rarely have a problem.  Pups get checked much more often the problem of course is the expense rescue dogs get dewormed as recommended by our vet, our personal dogs get fecal checks etc.

Amy

This subject has been discussed a number of times and will always come up... I would recommend researching the studies and advice from Dr Jean Dodds... she is the pioneer in the field of immune system study

She totally recommends vaccinating puppies as does her colleague Dr Schultz who is fronting a study now regarding the Rabies vaccination

What is different is the combinations (or lack thereof) that she recommends and the timing which is way later than people are accustomed to and her protocol is also an AAHA recommendation

Everyone needs to research this subject and make informed decisions.. puppies need their vaccinations just like children do, what is not necessary is to continually assault their immune systems thru their lives ... the research and info is all there and it is lengthy and often very technical but it is worth the time and effort itt akes to go thru it!! 

I am myself very confuse on how to vac my dog without going over board. So far two of my dogs were vac up to 15 weeks, after that I stop, and they don't get any more vac till they are one year old, this is when I will get the 3 year vac for rabies, after that I just go to a vet where there is a problem, or when they need new rabies vac. So far no problems. I grew up in a village in Poland all are dogs got only rabies vac all their life nothing more, theye were the healthiest dog I ever owned. When I cam to the states we vac are dogs based on the vet recomendation I have to say that these dogs never matched the health level of my dogs in Poland. As well the dogs in Poland got only table scraps and whatever they could kill. One of my favorites dogs since we lived on a farm was hunting rat's and that was his main source of meat protein + any loose chicken or fox he could get his teeth in :) once again that dog lived to 18 and never had any issues. This dog was the best dog I ever owned, inteligent and healthy not the best dog too look at but even today I think that dog was something else. But like the previous poster stated do you own research and come out with your own conclusion. That way you will have no one to blame on any mistakes that you might make. If you ask vac are not they way to go and you should keep it to a minimum, even we human don't get vac as much as our pets even though dogs immune system is I think at least 10 times stronger.

Thank you guys for the insight. I will try to learn more on this subject by doing more research. I appreciate your time.

I didn't worm the first time until 6-weeks.  Had never heard of earlier.