Vaccine Controversy

The vaccine controversy argues over the effectiveness of vaccines, method of administration, repetition, and long range side effects.

These include:

• Skin diseases
• Allergies
• Seizures and Epilepsy
• Autoimmune diseases, including organ disease, allergies and skin problems
• Chronic digestive problems
• Muscle weakness, especially lack of hind end coordination
• Chronic digestive disorders
• Fibrosarcoma (cancer) at the injection site
• Behavior problems: aggression, destructive behaviors, separation anxiety and odd obsessive behaviors

How Vaccines Work (Or do they)

The idea is by injecting a small amount of the actual disease (either a live or killed form) into a dog, the immune system will go to work and create an immunity to the particular disease.

Although this practice has been assumed correct and dogs have been vaccinated this way for a long time, the voice of controversy had gotten louder. Here are some considerations.

First of all injecting a dog with a concentrated foreign substance is not only unnatural, it is a shock to the system. This is not the way the dog would be exposed to a disease. In the natural world, most of these canine illnesses are taken in through the mouth or nose where they hit these defensive lines.

• Saliva - Dog saliva kills many forms of bacteria.
• Mucus membranes - Mucus is another way to rid the body of invaders.
• Acids, enzymes and more - Powerful stomach acids, enzymes and good bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract also attack invaders.

If a disease breaks through these defenses, at least the immune system has been warned that a viral threat is coming so it can rally white blood cells and antibodies.

Now let's go back to shocking the dog's system by injecting a disease to prevent disease. Nowadays, dogs are given combination vaccines. Not only does the vet inject a form of a disease, but several diseases at the same time.

An odd analogy just came to mind. What if someone trying to protect their car from running out of fuel pumped gasoline into the back seat. Not only would it fail to help the engine run, it would destroy the car wouldn't it?

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