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Stuffysays's avatar

As a lifelong dog owner I fully confirm this article as being absolutely correct! I would add that owning dogs also stops you getting sick from passing coughs, colds, upset stomachs whilst also keeping you active and forcing you to go out for a walk, regardless of the weather. Win/win situation really.

I reckon they should do an experiment to see how many dog owners died only from Covid!!!! (none would be my estimate)

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Crixcyon's avatar

..."Adolescents Who Lived With Dogs Had Fewer Mental and Behavioral Problems"...well then, I suggest we get every member of congress three dogs and two cats. Can't hurt, can it?

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Frances Lynch's avatar

I'd prefer we replace them with dogs and cats. I suggest we start tomorrow.

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Kathleen Serra's avatar

Great idea!

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

I am NOT administering this vaxx in my clinic. Likely never will. LNP tech being used.....The rabies vaxx induces production of Rabies Virus Glycoprotein, the EXACT inflammatory factor that causes rabies symptoms....and we all know that LNPs have the potential to cross the Blood Brain Barrier. IN SPITE of this, there is a group of militant vets(Likely paid by Merck) attacking anyone who doesn't go all in on these of being nutty conspiracy folks.....sound familiar? Oh and these vets are 'specialists' and 'experts.'

Any animal improves life!!

My favorite is horses...best quote "the outside of a horse, is good for the inside of a man"

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Kathleen Serra's avatar

Yes, the rabies shot is so unnecessary as most dogs don't freely roam in the woods cavorting with wild animals thereby risking rabies. They are domesticated animals! It is mandated that your dog get rabies vaccines in almost every state and that is because of Merck who manufactures the rabies vaccine. As per usual, it's always about money and not the health of the animal, be it human or animal! I refuse to vaccinate my dog for anything now after reading they are putting Mrna in vaccines for dogs. I am lucky in that I live in FL where I can get away with this, depending on the vet because it is also mandated here, but it also means no visits to the groomer or a place that boards dogs because you have to produce the vaccine record so NP, I learned to groom him myself and I save a ton of money in the process since it's now $100 per groom! I also save a ton of money by NOT vaccinating my dog and he is healthy and happy and perky at 12 yrs old. I am doing the right thing for him. When I need to go away, I am also lucky enough to have a neighbor who loves him and will keep him for me for a few days if need be. But trying to keep him safe is not easy from the Vet community sadly.

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Mary Makary's avatar

Zoetis manufactures about 65% of canine rabies vaccine (administered in US). Boehringer Ingelheim, about 12% and Merck about 10%.

Racoon run-ins are the major concern for rabies in dogs. The raccoon rabies reservoir extends through about 25 states - southeast, mid-Atlantic, northeast, New England. Skunks are the main reservoir in the Midwest and West, along with foxes, coyotes, and bats.

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

I absolutely recommend rabies vaccine, just not the new one, NXT. I recommend the older killed virus versions.

Rabies is endemic to this country. I have had rabies outbreaks within 5 miles of my house twice in the last year.

You can think it's all about the money and I understand your concern, given the current state of veterinary medicine. The private equity groups are trying to ruin vet med like they did human med. There are still good, honest vets out there. Some of them even work in corporate practices because they have too.

I am not concerned if people choose to not vaccinate for everything EXCEPT rabies. If you are wrong, it's a death sentence. No treatment.

I am vaccinated for rabies. It's the last vaccine I took and I'm 61. I was vaccinated in vet school in 1994. I am not a cheerleader for vaccination, but rabies is an absolute necessity. Oh, and bats---one of the reservoirs for the disease in this country, can and will get in your house.....and may bite your dog or cat without you even knowing it.......

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Mary Makary's avatar

Agree about private equity groups squeezing and ruining just about EVERYTHING they can. Acquiring and consolidating veterinary healthcare BIGLY. At least you're established and will be lucky enough to cash out (some). And kudos for not prominently hawking pricey "supplements" and gimmick diets at your website.

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Trump Dick Sucker's avatar

"The rabies vaxx induces production of Rabies Virus Glycoprotein, the EXACT inflammatory factor that causes rabies symptoms...."

Merck's mRNA rabies vaccine isn't even marketed in USA (yet). Why did you post this crazy misinformation? Drumming up business from wingnut pet owners?

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

The NXT vaccine....not traditional rabies. The NXT vaccine is the one referenced in the article. And this is EXACTLY what it does. LOOK IT UP.

I just finished having a discussion about this on VIN. I asked the 'experts' and that is what they told me.

Literally from Google:

"The NXT rabies vaccine (and most modern rabies vaccines) works by prompting your cells to produce the Rabies Virus Glycoprotein (RABV-G), the critical surface protein that the virus uses to enter cells, allowing your immune system to build antibodies against it without getting sick, leading to protection. This protein is the main target for neutralizing antibodies and is key for viral entry, making it the central component for effective immunity. "

The only part they got wrong is that 'most rabies vaccines' cause the body to produce this protein. THAT is not true. Most current vaccines cause the body to respond to a KILLED virus that contains that protein, NOT to produce it.

The NXT vaccine is also using self amplifying RNA......which, to me is even scarier than the modRNA in the COVID vaccine.

The very protein that makes rabies so inflammatory to the nervous system is the one that NXT is coding cells to produce. This is the same scenario as in the COVID mRNA shots that code the body to produce SPIKE, which is what makes COVID inflammatory reactions......They used the same playbook.

The scary part is the finality of rabies infections. There is no such thing as a mild case of Rabies. Once you are symptomatic, you are dead man walking. A very few individuals have survived, but it's in the 10s worldwide. Rabies is rampant in the Third World...people die of it all the time.

The very fact that an accidental self injection(have actually accidentally vaccinated myself with a cat vaccine years ago--cats are FUN) of this stuff is possible, is horrifying to me. I'm betting there wasn't all that much testing done for this vaccine and likely not tested in humans at all....for obvious reasons.

The ONLY rabies vaccines I will every administer are killed whole virus vaccines.

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Coprophilic Wellness's avatar

You aren't? Your website states otherwise (mybudgetvet). Thanks for showing pricing up-front.

Traditional rabies vaccines, the ones used for decades, are inactivated whole-virus vaccines, and DO NOT cause cells to manufacture rabies glycoprotein. Nor do recombinant viral-vector vaccines.

They present non-replicating viral antigens to the immune system.

Even in hypothetical or experimental platforms that express a viral antigen, expression of a single surface protein is NOTHING LIKE infection.

"The EXACT inflammatory factor that causes rabies symptoms”

Rabies symptoms are not caused by inflammation from glycoprotein alone.

Rabies is a neurotropic viral infection in which replicating live virus spreads via neurons, interferes with neurotransmission, and causes encephalitis with relatively little inflammation until late stages.

The glycoprotein is required for viral entry and immune recognition, but it does not reproduce rabies pathology by itself. No replication, no axonal transport, no synaptic dysfunction → no rabies.

“We all know that LNPs can cross the blood–brain barrier”

Rabies vaccines in current clinical use DO NOT USE LNPs at all, making this point irrelevant to real-world rabies vaccination.

But even if they did, your statement would be wildly misleading. Lipid nanoparticles do not freely or reliably cross the BBB. Brain exposure after peripheral injection is minimal, inconsistent, and orders of magnitude below toxic or infectious thresholds.

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

And cue the attack. The Merck NXT vaccines absolutely use LNPs. The call it an RNA platform and are very vague about it in their packaging and promotion, but they absolutely do use LNPs. Traditional rabies vaccines, the ones I administer don't use LNPs. They are killed virus vaccines.

I don't trust the LNPs. I think they are more of a problem than the sketchy RNA. And the RNA in the Merck products are being touted as self amplifying. Oh, and I am so suuuuuuuuuure they are totally safe and effective. Well, they won't be going in my patients. The older rabies tech is highly effective, cheap and pretty darn safe....and I know that from 30 yrs of practice experience.....but go ahead, jump on the Pharma bandwagon and attack me. I'm telling the truth.

And no, I don't have a single dose of NXT vaccine in my clinic....come and see if you like.

Asshloles like you are CLEARLY paid by Pharma or just mentally ill.

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Vatnik-Rapist's avatar

"I am NOT administering this vaxx in my clinic."

These wingnuts are ranting about rabies vaccine (mostly). And you're bizarrely incorrect sweeping statement statement was about "rabies vaccine," specifying nothing about Merck's NXT vaccines. And you're still making a wild claim about LNPs.

You're the one that sells this stuff, and stokes these lunatics. I'm sending screenshots and links to your nonsense to Georgia Board of Veterinary Medicine (if I can be bothered).

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

I am not administering NXT vaccines in my clinic. Period. Please come look around. Ask Merck if I have ever ordered the vaccine from them. And honey bun, try googling NXT and see if it doesn't ALSO say there are LNPs used in the vaccine platform. How is that a state Board violation.....and you have NO STANDING to complain about opinions I have about medications I do or do not choose to use. If you were my client, I MIGHT listen to you, but you are some random internet bully trying to scare me. Into doing what, I don't know.....you think I'm gonna retract it? I'm not. What I posted is 100% true. And shame on you....these are the COVID tactics.....'I'm gonna report you for blah blah blah' What are you gonna say? Misinformation, disinformation or the fav....malinformation, which is information that is TRUE, but might dissuade someone from doing some profitable medical treatment.

Go ahead, report me for telling the truth. If the State Board takes it up, they will have on helluva fight on their hands.....oh, and they KNOW how I fight firsthand.

How bout this--if you disagree, just leave it at that instead of trying to doxx me and harass me. Or take it one step further and I will find out who you are and report you to the proper authorities.

And, since reading comprehension is an issue for you, I was referring to the vaccines noted in the article....you know the pick of the NXT vaccines? Yeah, that one...the one using LNP technology.

Go bother someone else.....

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Mary Makary's avatar

"Her particular talent is surgical efficiency."

Hilarious!

It sure isn't middle school English composition.

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

Ya know what? Screw you.

Yes, I am surgically efficient AND proficient.

List of surgeries I do commonly--fracture repair(today I repaired an avulsed tibial tuberosity in a 17 wk old puppy and changed the bandage on an external fixator I placed on a 5lb poodle on Christmas eve). I do splenectomies, GDVs, gastrotomies, enterotomies, resection and anastamosis, perineal urethrostomies, soft palate resections, stenotic nares widening, enucleations, entropion surgery, cleft palate repair, aural hematoma repair, amputations, etc, etc, etc. I have performed, personally over 7,000 spays and neuters on dogs and cats, I geld horses, alpacas and llamas. I have neutered a pet skunk, I do pot bellied pig spays and neuters, goat and cattle castration, rabbit spay and neuter and for some unknown reason, got roped into doing sugar glider surgery. So, yeah, honey bunny, I am proficient at surgery AND efficient at it which is why it's less expensive than your corporate practice around the corner that takes so, perhaps you tried to read proficient, which I am as well.

In any case, I'm sure you aren't even a vet and just want to pile on and be an asshole like your buddy above.

Any time I comment on something like this, to cockroaches come out of the cracks.

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Loretta's avatar

Thank you for being mindful of animals & humanity.

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Linda wallack's avatar

I am concerned about that, esp since I live in CA, and I think they pressure vaccination on the animal. I hope this doesn't rear-up at some get appt for when my cat needs care

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Maurine Meleck's avatar

What about CATS? MEOW!

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HexxeH's avatar

By the way, this doesn’t mean you should kiss your dog in the mouth.

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

I never initiate it, but I get face kissed by my dogs involuntarily all the time....still kicking.

Probably stimulates my immune system!!

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Crixcyon's avatar

I have kissed many a dog and cat. Is that why I now look like a tiger-wolf?

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Dr Monica's avatar

BRAVO for this outstanding article!

NO doubt animals help us in many ways, including the microbiota, helping us be a bit more DIRTY!, and having more bacteria on our bodies, teaching our immune system to fight or accommodate them, and so on. We are nature, and have to live within nature, surrounded by plants and animals.

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Loretta's avatar

Very well stated. Thank you.

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DaughteroftheKing's avatar

This information is also VERY ENCOURAGING and COMFORTING to my husband and me as we are 3 1/2 years into raising a Labrador Retriever that is STILL VERY PUPPY-MINDED! 😵‍💫

We LOVE the breed and she is our third and last Lab that we have raised from a pup. We chose to raise ONE MORE Lab from a pup since we believe it is SO important and beneficial for our teen Son to have a dog.

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mejbcart's avatar

This such 'a happy study' must have always a goal, get pets, for everyone, in particular your children. Only later you will find out that the best human friends all need to be 'vaccinated'!!!

I just wish to have an distribution experiment done, in which those animals injected with self-emplifying modmRNA genetic never to be degraded material, do leave that stuff even in their droppings??? If those victims poop into my garden veggies, do I need to worry??? If they pee on everything around, do we need to worry??? How many people until this day are affected by the shedding of even the FIRST GENERATION of the apparently NOT self-amplifying weapons????

Somebody REALLY WANTS US ALL DEAD, LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE SOUL.

signed: a skeptic.

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ArnoldF's avatar

they do want us dead. Its like the worst possible conspiracy pyschopathic thriller, but this is real life!

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Noel's avatar

So, after all the info about guilds, AMA, NIH, CDC, FDA and Big Pharma...what about the American Veterinary Medical Association which continues to likely get kick backs for supporting State laws about pet vaccines? No incident of domestic animal rabies, and likely immunity after first series and yet we cant even get an appointment unless shots are updated. They are killing and maiming our pets, likely by design. How do we begin to pressure them?

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LONG In The TRUTH's avatar

.....CATS, too - but ALSO, their PURRING produces SYMPATHETIC (to humans ESPECIALLY) biorhythms which SIGNIFICANTLY reduce cardiovascular, likely OTHER adverse health events.....

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Jay's avatar

I don't feel so bad about the dirt and hair from my collie now👍👍

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Ed.'s avatar

Since this is true about dogs, it must be twice as true for cats! MEOW already!

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earl's avatar

Just fascinating! And thanks for the heads up on the saRNA pet vax!

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InfoHog's avatar

Now enter cat owners... A certain subpopulation of cat owners are very similar to cats, attitude wise! The more cats owned, the worse it seems.

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LONG In The TRUTH's avatar

Ohhhhh, GET.....

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Mark peter's avatar

💯

Next do horses…

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Dick Atlee's avatar

On the other hand, as a cat owner, I've never forgotten a comment made by a parasite specialist during a presentation on parasites that humans inevitably end up with the same parasites that inhabit their pets. Maybe some of those are good, maybe not.

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Sounds Like Nonsense's avatar

My last dog I did the gold standard fecal tests through her life, she never once had a positive test so never had parasites. There’s a lot of hype to sell drugs so people think they are full of them.

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Loretta's avatar

eezy-peezy, detox parasites. Parasites are everywhere and in everything. FEAR is the enemy of humans. Don't let fear take your joy. Animal companionship is sheer joy.

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