anti vaccine pet owner fb is going to give me an aneurysm
things I saw in a local group from people who own pets
"I don't think it's necessary to vaccinate my dog for rabies. If he starts foaming at the mouth I'll take him to the vet, if he bites someone he can just get a titer. No need to put him down and cut his head off 🙄"
Rabies is literally one of the most deadly (if not the most deadly) viruses in the world... if it's infection is not prevented before it can take hold you are dead. By the time symptoms manifest you are on a one way road to dead. There is no accurate titer for rabies. The only thing a titer related to rabies can tell you is if the body of a vaccinated animal contains antibodies.
"I don't think my dog needs a rabies booster every year, they should just test for the antibodies and do it based on that"
Well tough shit because a yearly rabies booster is law for pets. Just doing an annual test would leave the door wide open to many animals not having a high enough antiviral load to kill the virus if they sre infected. The risk is too high and any benefits are basically non-existent.
"Why should the vaccine be the same dose for a chihuahua as a great Dane, something something big pharma trying to scam us".
A vaccine is not a medication. You dont dose it based on body mass. The dose of a vaccine is mostly saline, the important part is the virus sample. A vaccine vial is single sized for a reason. If you don't dose your syringe with the entire vial you run the risk of the animal not getting vaccinated bevause you didn't get the pathogen in the syringe. It doesn't matter the size of the animal, the virus isn't bigger in bigger animals. The immune system responds the same regardless of the size of tbe animal. Infective pathogens don't care your size so why would a vaccine?