blabsforbullies wrote:I will say that although I do many titers for many clients, some veterinarians are not convinced that the numbers given actually represent protection. It gives a ratio of what should be protective, but every individual is different. I'm not trying to start a debate here , as I am a fan of titers, but just making the point that the titers are not infallible.
hugapitbull wrote:We travel a lot with Trouble and most hotels require the dog be up to date on vaccinations (although the majority of them never look at the paperwork). If you choose titering, is there some 'official' documentation that would satisfy the hotel requirements?
BullyLady wrote:There's no age, but you wouldn't want to titer unless the vaccination has been given in the first place, and there would be no reason to do it earlier than a year after the vaccine was given.
mnp13 wrote:I would disagree with this. One of the women in my dog club does not vaccinate her dogs for anything, however, she brings them around freshly vaccinated dogs. She said that vaccinated dogs "shed" the disease for a certain amount of time after the vaccination is given. I have no idea if there is medical proof for this, but she has titered her dogs and all of them show immunity to diseases they have never gotten a vaccination for.
I am not saying I agree with this protocol, I think it is very risky, but I'm just sharing what someone I know does.
blabsforbullies wrote:I know of no medical or scientific data/proof that any disease is shed in the feces such that someone else could gain protection from it. My guess, although it is only a guess, is that the dog may have some protection from maternal antibodies for some period of time, or there is another explanation that we aren't privy to (maybe the dog was actually exposed to a dog that had a mild form of the disease, or it had a mild form of a disease...there has to be some reasonable explanation ). Seriously, dogs do not shed anything that is going to provide immunity or else we would all be doing it. It doesn't aerosolize, so it cannot be transmitted that way (most don't survive being outside the body anyway). And if ingested, it would be degraded by the stomach contents. I'm not doubting what she told you, but the science just isn't there, and you are right, it is a very risky, to say the least, protocol.
mnp13 wrote:It's certainly not something I would do, but she hasn't lost any puppies to Parvo, Distemper or any other nastiness.
I only brought it up because her dogs do titer for the diseases and they have never had shots.
hugapitbull wrote:We travel a lot with Trouble and most hotels require the dog be up to date on vaccinations (although the majority of them never look at the paperwork). If you choose titering, is there some 'official' documentation that would satisfy the hotel requirements?
mnp13 wrote:New York state does not recognize titers for rabies, but supposedly a letter from the vet will get you out of that as well, we haven't tried that though. He's good for rabies for another year, so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users