Above is a picture of Mickey, my one and a half year old Dachshund a few hours after his distemper shot.  As we were driving home, red bumps started to appear on his nose.  Before my eyes, more bumps kept popping up and swelling until the bumps joined and his muzzle was double its size.  Both eyes swelled shut.   I thought he was going to die in my arms because it was happening so fast, and we were stuck in traffic on the highway between exits.  Plus it was a Saturday, and all the local vets offices would be closing soon.  Luckily, we got him to another vet on time. This picture was taken one hour after he was treated with Benadryl and steroid shots, and the swelling was coming down!

Help make vaccines safer.  We need you to become part of a movement to change vaccination laws across the country, starting in the State of Connecticut!  State representatives Pam Staneski and Fred Camillo have introduced a common sense bill to protect our pets from over vaccination.  This groundbreaking law will allow vets to vaccinate pets according to their weight and would require titers to determine immunity instead of yearly revaccinations.     

We have been lied to long enough.  The paradigm that we must vaccinate our dogs, cats, ferrets and farm animals yearly because it protects them from disease and because it is the law is killing our animals.  Did you know that a 180 lb. dog is injected with the same amount of vaccine that a 2 lb dog is injected with?  Does that even make sense?  Of course not.  An animal's age, health, weight, and breed all need to be taken into consideration before vaccinating.  Our beloved animals are dying and having immediate severe vaccination reactions to rabies and other shots, yet vaccine reactions are not required to be reported.  Ask yourself why?  Who benefits from the silence?  Cancer.  Thyroid disease.  Autoimmune disease.  Allergies.  These are running rampant as the lives and immune systems of our pets are being irreparably harmed from over vaccination, and we trustingly continue to deliver our fur babies into the hands of drug companies and corporate greed.  Veterinarians are bound by law to follow vaccine manufacturer guidelines or risk losing their license.  Let's untie their hands!  Let’s change the law!

It is extremely important to understand that giving our pet a vaccination does not guarantee our pet is immune from a disease.  Immunity is only an ASSUMPTION.  The only way to know if a vaccine worked is to do a titer, a blood test that will show if immunity was developed.  In many European countries, pets cannot be brought into the country until they have a rabies shot, and thirty days later a titer is done to prove that the rabies shot actually worked.  Common sense isn’t it?  Studies have proven that pets can be given a dose appropriate for their size, and they will develop the proper immunity to a disease.  It's 2017, and we have the science behind us!  If the law were changed to require titers in the U.S., we wouldn’t need to bring our pets back for continual revaccinations for rabies and other vaccinations because they would be immune for life.  AND we would know for certain that our pets and families were protected.  This is good, honest medicine that cares about our companion animals and our families’ health, not the pocketbook of big corporations. 

Please add your name to support the State of Connecticut to be the first state in the country to put its pets and families first.  If you had a pet or know of one that died from a vaccination or had a serious reaction, please write your story in the comments.  We are awaiting a date for a hearing in Hartford, CT.  We need as many people come to Hartford and speak out for our animals as possible.  As soon as that date is set, we will let you know.  Thank you for your support!