7 responses to “10 reasons to adopt an elderly dog”
jenny
always loved the oldies no hassle and ye easier to train i thnk the reason for most people is the vets bills as like us humanes when we get older more things start going wrong with the body so you need attention but with the animals its all pay and dont come cheap its out ragious here
jenny
as for long term ongoing probs with greys here some charities will let you have them on long term foster and pay the ongoing tratment for them all you have to pay is the food and the booster once a year and any basic things but in spain i know the charities suffer real bad cant keep them self going sometimes so dont suppose they could do them terms
Tunde
Hi Jenny I do not give booster each year to the dogs, because I think it is not healthy. Especially for older animals.
Tünde I in general do not reject vaccination with so many illegal transports of dogs from Southeastern European countries entering Germany, false documents never been vaccinated, espec. rabies most common in these countries among other serious deseases causes a real problem. I much rather be on the safe side should one of my dogs get in contact with these deseases. What do you do if your dogs show signs of rabies, the vet control office will take your dogs and pts. I do not want that Germany restricts or rejects dogs in need for a home just because some people ignore the fact that serious health hazzards to human beings and animals the results of ignorance. Every coin has two sides.
with Rabies vaccination I have no choice as it is mandatory. So I give the dogs the 3 years vaccine. But I am NOT happy with that, among other things because each kind of Rabies vaccine contains adjuvants and these are pretty aggressive stuff.
I am pretty sure that dogs that get rabid are ones that were NEVER vaccinated against the disease. Because some idiots never vaccinate their dogs. However I do NOT belong to this group of idiots.
As for the other vaccinations I do not want my dogs to become ill because some pharmacy companies want to get rich. Therefore I give the dogs the boosters every 4-5 years. And even this might be unnecessary…
In Canada it is already allowed to get antibody titres instead ob giving the Xth rabies booster full of some heavy metal adjuvants to the poor dog.
I wish it would be possible and accepted in Europe, too.
The other thing is, that we humans do not get all our vaccinations each year, do we? We get vaccinated maybe every 15-20 years and it is enough… (except from the influenza booster as that virus keeps mutating extremely quickly)
So the point is my dogs ARE perfectly safe even when they do not get the booster each year.
… and I definitely do NOT want them to get vaccinosis.
Further read on rabies vaccination & the real duration of immunity against the disease after one shot: http://www.rabieschallengefund.org/
The point is that selling vaccines is a good business for the manufacturing companies as well as for the vets. I heard this from a vet so no way I am mistaken.
Whereas the research on vaccinosis, an activity that points to the lessening of the vaccination business is not as well funded. You might guess why.
Fake papers are another thing but I have never faked any document and I am not intending to do so. I only try to be a responsible dog owner that is all.
Kathryn
Older dogs are great. We adopted our ex racing grey at the age of 9. He is 11 now, went to the vets for his vaccinations the other day and was pronounced as “fit as a fiddle”. We adopted Gracie galga when she was 7, which I suppose is more middle aged than elderly but she was fit and well up to the age of 14 when a lung tumour made her really ill and we lost her. Up until then she was never ill and loved walking and running about the park, even at 14. We have our dogs insured so that we don’t worry about vets bills. Anyone thinking about adopting an oldie should go for it. They are calmer, settled and often easier to look after.
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7 responses to “10 reasons to adopt an elderly dog”
always loved the oldies no hassle and ye easier to train i thnk the reason for most people is the vets bills as like us humanes when we get older more things start going wrong with the body so you need attention but with the animals its all pay and dont come cheap its out ragious here
as for long term ongoing probs with greys here some charities will let you have them on long term foster and pay the ongoing tratment for them all you have to pay is the food and the booster once a year and any basic things but in spain i know the charities suffer real bad cant keep them self going sometimes so dont suppose they could do them terms
Hi Jenny I do not give booster each year to the dogs, because I think it is not healthy. Especially for older animals.
sorry I forgot the weblink:
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/08/20/pets-over-vaccination-disease.aspx
We had a cat who died from kidney failure some days after a booster that contained an adjuvant. It was the FeLV yearly booster. It can cause skin cancer, too.
Tünde I in general do not reject vaccination with so many illegal transports of dogs from Southeastern European countries entering Germany, false documents never been vaccinated, espec. rabies most common in these countries among other serious deseases causes a real problem. I much rather be on the safe side should one of my dogs get in contact with these deseases. What do you do if your dogs show signs of rabies, the vet control office will take your dogs and pts. I do not want that Germany restricts or rejects dogs in need for a home just because some people ignore the fact that serious health hazzards to human beings and animals the results of ignorance. Every coin has two sides.
with Rabies vaccination I have no choice as it is mandatory. So I give the dogs the 3 years vaccine. But I am NOT happy with that, among other things because each kind of Rabies vaccine contains adjuvants and these are pretty aggressive stuff.
I am pretty sure that dogs that get rabid are ones that were NEVER vaccinated against the disease. Because some idiots never vaccinate their dogs. However I do NOT belong to this group of idiots.
As for the other vaccinations I do not want my dogs to become ill because some pharmacy companies want to get rich. Therefore I give the dogs the boosters every 4-5 years. And even this might be unnecessary…
In Canada it is already allowed to get antibody titres instead ob giving the Xth rabies booster full of some heavy metal adjuvants to the poor dog.
I wish it would be possible and accepted in Europe, too.
The other thing is, that we humans do not get all our vaccinations each year, do we? We get vaccinated maybe every 15-20 years and it is enough… (except from the influenza booster as that virus keeps mutating extremely quickly)
So the point is my dogs ARE perfectly safe even when they do not get the booster each year.
… and I definitely do NOT want them to get vaccinosis.
Further read on rabies vaccination & the real duration of immunity against the disease after one shot:
http://www.rabieschallengefund.org/
The point is that selling vaccines is a good business for the manufacturing companies as well as for the vets. I heard this from a vet so no way I am mistaken.
Whereas the research on vaccinosis, an activity that points to the lessening of the vaccination business is not as well funded. You might guess why.
Fake papers are another thing but I have never faked any document and I am not intending to do so. I only try to be a responsible dog owner that is all.
Older dogs are great. We adopted our ex racing grey at the age of 9. He is 11 now, went to the vets for his vaccinations the other day and was pronounced as “fit as a fiddle”. We adopted Gracie galga when she was 7, which I suppose is more middle aged than elderly but she was fit and well up to the age of 14 when a lung tumour made her really ill and we lost her. Up until then she was never ill and loved walking and running about the park, even at 14. We have our dogs insured so that we don’t worry about vets bills. Anyone thinking about adopting an oldie should go for it. They are calmer, settled and often easier to look after.