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Goose87
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On the subject of vaccines and wormers, I used to be stringent about worming once a month and seems like I was always dealing with a dog with worms, I started worming and would worm again in two weeks and would wait several months, biggest thing I found to help tremendously was to keep the area around the dogs clean at all times, I keep insect granules around that I spread about once a month or so, and keeping the dogs flea and mosquito free worked wonders, I'll start giving them ivermectin injected in the hip usually once a month during the summer season when Mosquitos are rampant, as far the vaccines I used to NEVER give vaccines and never really had a problem either because I always maintained a healthy clean yard, after losing a good promising young dog and almost another because I went to somebody's baypen who allowed any Tom dick and Harry to use and wasn't but a week later i was hit for around 1200 trying to save them two dogs and lost one, I feel that a parvo specific vaccine and two broad spectrum vaccines aren't that big of an investment and that all I'll give them, yes vaccines can have ill effects as well, it's my personal opinion that there's no sense in vaccinating something past puppy hood, think about it how many of you adults go get vaccines every year for the same stuff you did as a kid, another example, an old man I used to go to church with got the flu shot every year and stayed sick all winter the past two years he didn't get it and never even as much had a sniffle, yes a vaccination program is important for young dogs but that giving a puppy 6 rounds of shots or what not is doing nothing but continually suppressing the immune system and creating more customers, it's a vet or pharmaceutical company's job to sell you all those shots, their creating more and more profit. Not saying my way is the only way but, it's what has worked for me thus far, maybe I'll encounter some ill effects on down the road but since the last 4 or 5 years I've been doing this it it has worked, another thing is watching who you allow in your yard or where you go and then come back, I just recently lost two entire litters, my bud raised one and I did, I went to his house to pick my half up, mine and the ones he kept were all dead within a week, the litter I lost never came in contact with his pups but i had the same boots on as when I went over there and him and his family came picked out some of my pups and within a week a whole other litter who physically seemed healthy as could be was lost, the only connection the two litters ever had was us walking in and around their pens, both litters of pups were fat slick and healthy as can be, but they had not had any shots yet so now im going to be getting a high titer vaccine to them at 4 weeks old while their still on the gyp. Just my ramblings and what has worked for me.
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