My personal experience with this vaccine is that it has a high reaction rate among dogs. I don't have any statistics or anything, just what I've noticed personally.
That's exactly what most of us here are afraid of. Several of us have had dogs or cats that had bad reactions to vaccines, and the rest of us have read/heard too much about the negative effects of having too many vaccines thrown at our pets (and children) constantly when they're young.
My mom was a public health nurse, and even she thinks that having so many vaccines given to children is crazy. Both of our granddaughters have been given modified vaccine schedules so they didn't get so many at once. My mom thinking it's crazy to give children so many vaccines at once is what made me start looking up pet vaccines. Before then, the ill effects of neutering (
See: http://www.caninesports.com/uploads/1/5/3/1/15319800/spay_neuter_considerations_2013.pdf~~2005 and http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/LongTermHealthEffectsOfSpayNeuterInDogs.pdf~~2007) and processed dog foods from companies that make dogs sick with their "healthy" formulas,
only to provide RX foods later when the pets get sick, had been my main areas of research.
Then Vlad's breeder started warning us about the dangers of too many vaccines before we got Vlad. I started doing a lot more research into that too. Barkly wasn't yet 1 yr old, so I think she's probably saved his immune system too--I found out that Corgis (Like Black Russians) have high incidences of reacting to some of the vaccines, and I HAD noticed him moping/dragging around after his puppy shots.
I worry so much about all these vaccines because I know what living with a compromised immune system is like. Food, neutering, and A LOT of vaccines are the only things I know about our past 3 dogs that has changed from all of our families' previous
VERY healthy dogs. It's GOT to be something from one of those factors. You just don't suddenly have 3 dogs in a row with cancer without reason--and 2 of them have the same kind.
We're also not automatically giving flea and tick products. I don't put it on them until I notice someone scratching. At the moment, they've not had any in 8 weeks. (
I suppose nothing's happening because we've had several chilly nights for the past 3 weeks.) I worry less about ticks than I used to, since I'm always brushing and massaging them (
and I've never seen a tick on our dogs in years and years). I just don't want fleas in the house. But I've decided that if it's still keeping fleas away, then it's most likely still working on the ticks as well.