Thanks for the excellent info Penel. I am so confused about what to do with my dog he reacted very very badly with the second injection and was not very well at all - which frightened me. My fears are made worst by the fact that his aunt had a regular booser injection and it destroyed her immune system and the owner nearly lost her. Finley is due his booster - already had note from vet - I currently have him on Nosodes from Ainsworths which is hopefully protecting him from hard Pad and Distemper, parvo Virus, leptospirosis, Hepatitis and Kennel Cough.
Last week at training a couple told me that their baby cocker had also reacted very badly from the second injection she was sick, could not walk and was very unwell. I was wondering if I should talk to the vet and just have the Lepto vac done or investigate the possibility of having a titres test done.
Wendy
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Hi Wendy,
as most of you on here know, I lost a dog from a multisystemic auto immune disease SLE, this was triggered by her booster vaccine at 3 yrs old. Hence my interest in the subject.
Any dog that has reacted to a vaccination -
in my opinion - should not be vaccinated again - as the likelihood is that the next time they will react more strongly.
You can't titre for Lepto by the way.
If I was concerned about my dogs protection levels I would titre.
However, you can get a low titre and the dog still be protected - as titre testing only measures circulating antibodies -
it cannot measure memory cells - its all very complicated - but if you do titre , and get good results - then you're ok - its just if you titre and you get low results that you have to make a decision to re-vaccinate or not.
My neighbour just had her flatcoat titred - she hasn't been vaccinated for 4 years - the results were all sky high.
Unfortunately nosodes are not proven to work although personally I have had extremely good impressive results with the kennel cough nosode in particular.
