At-home Vaccinations

[shelly]

I have heard of getting meds mailed to your home, but I just got a catalog in the mail this week and just looked through it.... it was called "Doctors Foster and Smith".  While browsing through it - I saw dog vitamins (which coincidentally coincides to my last forum post) and "AT-HOME" vaccinations!  Anything from Parvovirus to Lymes to Bordetella which comes with a video on how to vaccinate at home.  I don't know... I think even with the high costs of vet visits, I'd rather go to the vet for her shots....

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

You need a prescription for that anyway, and I don't know any vets who would give it to just a private dog owner. I think it's more for breeders use, or maybe rescue shelters. Maybe people who live in remote areas, that kind of thing.
I do order Jack's heartworm meds from them, though. Much cheaper than the vet, and most vets will either give you a prescription or match their prices.

[April Cliber]

A prescription isn't needed. They also sell vaccines at TSC, which I don't care for. I worry about whether they are refrigerated properly and if they have been tampered with. They are right out where anyone has access to them.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

That's so strange to me that they don't require a prescription for vaccines, but they require one for Heartgard.
They insist that my vet fax one every year. We are talking about Foster & Smith, right?

[Adina P]

Isn't the RX required because heartworm preventatives require an annual blood test? At least that is my understanding (we don't have heartworm here so no personal experience with preventatives).

Whereas vaccines don't require any tests prior to administration. Cass has gotten vaccines at home bought at our local feed shop.

[shelly]

Wow - no heartworm... that's great! Do you have ticks??? Do you do the frontline? That's great that you do Cass' shots. Actually, during pregnancy, my husband gave me shots at home...but that's another story
:O)

[Adina P]

We do have ticks but we don't typically visit the tick ridden places around so I have never personally seen a tick (knock on wood) on my dogs.

We also don't presently give vaccs ourselves...this was mostly a few years ago when Clark was single. You know men and their love of seeing the doc...unless they are bleeding or on fire they tend to stay away :)

I do use Frontline Plus in all but winter.

[shelly]

Oh I hear you!!! (men tttt - gotta' love em')
Unfortunately, during some years, ticks are so bad here, you can get one just in your own back yard. Hopefully with the cold and extra snowy winter we've been having... ticks will be less this year. They freak me out! That's why I tend to shy away from the dog parks...
P.S. Hope you had a great trip!

[F, Calla & Luca]

We get ticks in the yard which is fenced so the deer can't get in. But the mice can and I guess that's how the ticks get inside the yard since the deer are all around and the mice are a secondary host.

[shelly]

Oo.. knock wood we don't have the deer tick (there are no deer in my area - out east more on the Island) as much as the regular dog tick, but Tori's so black that it would be hard to see.

[F, Calla & Luca]

When I moved here we didn't have deer either. They are spreading like rats, since they have no predators for the most part.

[Adina P]

I'm still on my trip. But gotta peek in here sometimes! =)

[shelly]

Always need the "comforts of home" Enjoy
:O)