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Old April 29th, 2012, 09:18 PM
Choochi Choochi is offline
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Its not always just for the money, they're not all that evil. Not that it's much consolation but some are just that uneducated and stick to what they have been doing for years just because that's what they have been doing for years.

Longblades, I think you threw me off when you said warranted. It's more of a rating as in the manufacturer does not warrant that your dog will not catch a disease after being vaccinated for it as this does happen.

If your vet attaches the stickers that came with your vaccine to your printout, that will state the vaccine expiry date but that's just a best before date for the use of the vaccine, not when the immunity wears off. As far as I know, rabies is the only vaccine which comes with a rating of being valid for 1 or 3 years and this is all for legal reasons since rabies is required by law. I've never seen a manufacturer state duration of immunity for any other vaccine.

If you look at Merial's web site and compare their info for their rabies vaccines:
http://www.merial.ca/dogs/imrab-1-3.asp
and the other vaccines they offer:
http://www.merial.ca/dogs/recombitek.asp
they only indicate on the rabies vaccines if it is said to protect the pet from rabies for a period of 1 or 3 years. No such term is given for any of the other vaccines.
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