Originally Posted by
MikeLynn
Years ago I didn't know it could be a problem and with Lynn I was actually lucky because her vaccinations were set apart by about six months: combo in early summer (once a year), rabies before Christmas (initially every year and later we started getting three year rabies shots). Rabies is law here, so you can't avoid it. Now with Mel the timing is rather unfortunate as she's supposed to get her combo AND rabies shots all in September. Having read something here, thank you for sharing your knowledge guys, and still remembering Lynn's reaction to rabies vaccination (her last two shots actually): swollen itchy earlobes desperate head-shaking, she wasn't herself and there was probably more that I didn't know about. Even at that time, didn't know about this forum then, I did some research on the Internet and found some info about possible reactions to rabies vaccine and found it a bit unsettling. So this year when I was picking up vitamins for Mel, I talked to my vet and insisted on setting the combo and rabies apart at least by two, preferably three weeks. He was a bit surprised saying that they normally do it all at once to save the people time and money, but didn't argue and said that if I didn't mind having to travel to the office twice and spending more cash it can certainly be done my way.
Well, that's exactly what I'm gonna do and all that there's left is to fine-tune the vaccination schedule for our two separate visits in September.