Your Dog – To vaccinate or not ?

Paul | blog | February 8, 2012

Blogging about dogs can in fact be quite easy. I think that after some more adult themed searches, dogs rank well up there in the more popular topics searched for on the www so information is easy to get your hands on.

An awful lot of dog blogs pander to the masses, and are often an online advertising site for the magazine behind it. Most of these dog magazines spew out the same old stuff month in month out and year in year out. They feature the latest dog products, whether it be a new training device, set of bowls or bedding for the active dog or pampered pooch.

On a blog I wrote back in September last year, after flicking through some old editions of a popular magazine that were given to me I wrote ” I am trawling through same at the moment to see if there is any good material that I can use for the blog, and at the moment can say, that not an awful lot has changed in the 7 years since these magazines were hot off the press.”

Well, I came across a blog recently, that is the online face for a published magazine, but I can safely say that it 100% doesn’t pander to the masses.

Here is an excerpt from a recent blog:

1. 28% of vaccinated puppies still get Parvo
2. Parvo kills more vaccinated puppies than unvaccinated

So here are your choices;

1. Vaccinate him. If you do, he may possibly be less likely to suffer from Parvo. If he does get it however, he is more likely to die from it and is more likely to suffer detrimental long-term health effects.

2. Don’t vaccinate him. If you don’t, he may be more likely to get Parvo, but he is also more likely to survive it – without expensive vet bills and with less risk of long-term consequences.

The rest of the article can be found here and I would love to have your feedback re same.