Just a note first... Remember also that pets are considered property by the law so if your vet does some damage all they have to do is pay for the animal if push comes to shove. This is good for them if it is an adopted, found, or gift dog there is little they would have to reimburse no matter how much you loved this companion.  I always let the Vet I am seeing know that this is an expensive companion and if a show dog I tell them that. Sometimes also tell them how much they cost up front.

 

  *Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine is one of these. Their revised protocol statement says, "Our adoption of this routine vaccination program is based on the lack of scientific evidence to support the current practice of annual vaccination and increasing documentation showing that over vaccinating has been associated with harmful side effects. Since over-vaccinating can be a trigger for immune system problems, why vaccinate any more than necessary? (See "Dr. W. Jean Dodds' Revised Vaccination Protocol.

 

   Dr. Dodds and many vets now have the opinion, that vaccinating dogs annually against all the diseases that exist is too much. "While there will probably never be a study to definitively identify the effective length of vaccines because of the immense cost involved, a recent study we completed of 1200 dogs demonstrated that one to two years after the initial immunization, 94.4 percent of the dogs still had adequate immunities to parvovirus, and 97.3 percent were still protected against distemper. Some dogs were tested as long as six years after the vaccination, with similar results."