Beyond the Fringe Dog Thread

[ELIAKIM]

Have any of you given your dogs the titre test? I just read on-line it can cost up to £130, and they still recommend they have the Kennel Cough. They also recommend that even if your dog is covered for five years there have been incidences after three years, so it is recommended having vaccinations after three years from having a good titre test. 

Also some insurance companies don't like Titre tests. 

I just phoned our new vets for a cost and they said that they will have to get a vet to get back to me has receptionist didn't have a cost for it. However, the titre test is mentioned on their website. 

[DaJavoo]

Have any of you given your dogs the titre test? I just read on-line it can cost up to £130, and they still recommend they have the Kennel Cough. They also recommend that even if your dog is covered for five years there have been incidences after three years, so it is recommended having vaccinations after three years from having a good titre test. 

Also some insurance companies don't like Titre tests. 

I just phoned our new vets for a cost and they said that they will have to get a vet to get back to me has receptionist didn't have a cost for it. However, the titre test is mentioned on their website. 

I know from posting, @SouthernBelle has her dogs checked thru titre testing ~ reports that subsequent vacs are not necessary.

The whole vax things are major profit makers for vets ~ they're not evil, but that's what they learned at school and so it continues ~ I'm sure Big Pharma makes plenty of grants to vet schools.  


In these days of vax education for peeps ~ it's bound to carry over to pet owners, and hopefully, vets as well.  I suspect it will take a generation or more to make a dent in the mindset.

Personally, I've decided AGAINST ever getting another vax and only the legally required rabies vax for my pets ~ the cost of titre testing will have to be weighed ~ I have 6 pets.

[ELIAKIM]

Have any of you given your dogs the titre test? I just read on-line it can cost up to £130, and they still recommend they have the Kennel Cough. They also recommend that even if your dog is covered for five years there have been incidences after three years, so it is recommended having vaccinations after three years from having a good titre test. 

Also some insurance companies don't like Titre tests. 

I just phoned our new vets for a cost and they said that they will have to get a vet to get back to me has receptionist didn't have a cost for it. However, the titre test is mentioned on their website. 

I know from posting, @SouthernBelle has her dogs checked thru titre testing ~ reports that subsequent vacs are not necessary.

The whole vax things are major profit makers for vets ~ they're not evil, but that's what they learned at school and so it continues ~ I'm sure Big Pharma makes plenty of grants to vet schools.  


In these days of vax education for peeps ~ it's bound to carry over to pet owners, and hopefully, vets as well.  I suspect it will take a generation or more to make a dent in the mindset.

Personally, I've decided AGAINST ever getting another vax and only the legally required rabies vax for my pets ~ the cost of titre testing will have to be weighed ~ I have 6 pets.

Thank you for your feedback @DaJavoo, the vet still hasn't got back to me, after doing some more research, some underwriters won't give insurance cover based on a titre, so phone my pet insurance company and they don't. So like it or not, if I would like him to have continued pet insurance than I have to vaccinate him. You are in a different situation to me, my dog is in a lot of urban area has well has fields and parks where other dogs go a lot. Hence, I have to be extra precautious.

So the issue is the insurance companies/underwriters of the policies. 

Now having a dispute with the vets over the three in one jab to include the Kennel Cough jab because when he was a young pup and had his first KC up his nose, he had stuff coming out of his eyes for three months and I also caught an oral infection.

They're saying they don't offer the 3 in 1, which would mean I'd have to go back to our original vets to get it for him. I've only just changed vet's because the new ones have hospital facilities and are open 7 days a week, 8am-8pm.  I said, it makes no sense to lose a client over a vaccination and that I'd like to talk to a vet.  

I got around to changing his microchip today too, he's now legally at this address and owner.   They charge £24.00, so they're getting double that when the breeder does the microchipping before they sell the puppy.

[FlyoverCountry]

[Pintaday]

I can relate. My wife said today we should have called our dog Jake, Shadow instead. He follows me everywhere and is usually within a few feet but never out of sight. We love each other.

[FlyoverCountry]

@Pintaday
They think we're in danger if they aren't around. Even when they're scared of everything

[Pintaday]

@Pintaday
They think we're in danger if they aren't around.  Even when they're scared of everything 

Unfortunately Jake is not scared of anything. He will go after any sound, movement or animal he sees even in the dark. The first time he saw horses and cows when he was a young pup he chased them and barked. The other day there was a huge male Great Dane he met at the dog park that went after him. Instead of running for his life he went on counter attack mode. He is the most friendly gentile dog you could find but he is not scared of anything. I just hope he never meets a bear or a moose because he would go for it.

[ELIAKIM]

@Pintaday
They think we're in danger if they aren't around.  Even when they're scared of everything 

On Sunday there was a friendly female German Shepherd at the dog park, a little female 16 week old labradoodle, (she wasn't scared at all) and my dog. He loves his treats so repeatedly went over to the German Shepherds mum for treats. Well the German Shepherd decided he'd had enough of my dog going to his mum for his treats, so started telling him off. 

When my dog ran to me for protection, I told him, it's alright, I'm here and gave him a treat. 

Then the owners of the labradoodle said that the German Shepherd was asking to play. 

He wasn't, his body movements were showing us that he was pushing my dog away from his owner, like a sheepdog pushing sheep into a pen. 

I know when my dog is getting scared because he runs to me for reassurance and safety. He doesn't like it if a dog keeps on barking at him telling him off and older dogs tend to do that.

The German Shepherd was five years old.