Natural Rearing Border Collie Breeder?

[Paganman]

I'm pretty comfortable with my judgement that she is wrong. I'll also point out that what she wants to do is illegal as far as I know. If she decided she doesn't want to take something that's fine, she only hurts herself. But her actions affect another living being that has no choice. There's also the other dogs that will be exposed to any diseases she will spread around.

There are lots of things that society doesn't condone, try going to court and using it's my opinion as a defence, see how far it gets you. Some things are wrong.

[Weasels]

they need to be comfortable in their decision not to do it and be able to accept whatever may entail.

And if someone comes onto a forum of people who love animals proudly stating they are going to put their next pet at high risk of illness and death, they will have accept that the majority are going to be very upset about it.

[Mrs Rusty Bucket]

These are the links she posted on another website. We weren't at all supportive over there either.

http://truthaboutvaccines.org/

articles

http://truthaboutvaccines.org/articles.html

http://www.dogsadversereactions.com/scienceVaccineDamage.html

http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/vaccine-damage-in-dogs-1/

There's a bit of confusion between anecdotes and evidence in at least one of these. Ie study sample sizes way too small to be valid.

There is also a quite common practice (my vet did it) of doing the heart worm injection with the vaccination injection - which both products recommend against. I don't get the heart worm injection any more - prefer the other methods.

Creek also talked about exposing her puppies to build their immune system in a controlled environment - but that's exactly what a vaccine is - a controlled dose of the disease (usually dead) that is enough to get the body to build antibodies (immunity) but not enough to make a body severely ill. I imagine (haven't checked) that a body that got very sick from a tiny inactive dose of the disease - would not handle the full blown wild disease at all well.

And then there are the people (and dogs?) that are allergic to egg - and many vaccines contain egg. I think our other choice is mares' pee (can't be stuffed checking that one either).

I hope she finds some more reliable sources for her information before one of her animals or children gets really ill. I was quite rude about chicken pox parties. A child is more likely to get severely ill from one of those not to mention getting shingles later in life, than from the vaccine.

[Horsegal98]

So there's 3 pieces of 'evidence' about the dangers of vaccinating...and how many scholarly articles about the benefits?

I read once on the Internet that aliens built the pyramids. Therefore I am going to ignore everything that reputable historians have put forward and teach that to my unsuspecting high school students.