Anti-vaxxers Now Refusing to Vaccinate Pets Due to Health Concerns

A number of anti-vaxxer pet owners are now refusing vaccinations for potentially deadly diseases.

Some pet owners, who are part of the anti-vaccination movement, are under the false impression that animals could develop autism if they were to be vaccinated.

The alarming new trend, derived from the UK, has now reached Australian shores and has seen increasing numbers of pet owners opt for alternative methods of medication.

‘It is increasingly worrying how many people are analysing and making decisions based on what they can get off YouTube and Google, rather than from peer-reviewed research or legitimate scientific journals,’ Sydney veterinarian Dr Sam Kovac told The Daily Telegraph.

‘Pet anti-vaxxers are adamant that vaccinations can cause deleterious effects as severe as autism, despite the fact there are no recorded cases of animals with the condition,’ he added.

Dr Kovac said the individuals who are refusing vital vaccine treatment for their canines, for diseases such as parvovirus, don’t deserve to have animals as pets.

The parvovirus infection is a viral illness that causes vomiting, bloody diarrhoea and weight loss in dogs.

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18 Comments

- - mom268263 said
  - 31 Oct 2020
    11:14 pm
It is a risk, and don’t understand if it helps your pet’s health.

- - mom93821 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    6:25 pm
Responsibility goes hand in hand with having a pet in the family and this includes vet care and vaccinations.

- - Blossom said
  - 04 Apr 2019
    3:23 pm
If you need to put your dog in kennels at all, they will not accept them unless they have been vaccinated, especially for kennel cough and had appropriate ones for other medical diseases etc.

- - becstalou said
  - 04 Apr 2019
    1:31 pm
Surely you would speak to your vet rather than just make assumptions.

- - rnash02 said
  - 03 Apr 2019
    4:40 pm
Seriously there are some irresponsible people out there.

- - mom90758 said
  - 03 Apr 2019
    3:29 pm
Putting so many dogs at risk by not vaccinating them? They shouldn’t become dog-owners then!!

- - Kim said
  - 03 Apr 2019
    2:22 pm
Ignorance. Would they just look at the effects of the diseases the vaccinations prevent?

- - mom265671 said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    10:58 pm
Oh wow lol so ridiculous

- - taynik46 said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    10:32 pm
um what???

I choose to keep my pets safe by giving them vaccinations so they don’t get kennel cough – which they can easily get from the vets if they have to go in for surgery etc.

Why do people think they are protecting children and now animals from things that the vaccines have been scientifically proven to not cause?

- - ashna9 said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    8:50 pm
There has been a lot of info lately about not vaccinating your pet yearly but stretching it out to every 2 years.

- - mom343701 said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    8:30 pm
mmm different views

- - DaffyD said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    7:35 pm
If your pet is a house pet, there isn’t a great need for vaccination

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    5:39 pm
I haven’t got the vaccinations for my dog, the dose is too large for my dog

- - BellaB said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    5:02 pm
How could you even tell if an animal had autism?

- - mom160421 said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    2:11 pm
I cannot understand the mind set of an anti-vaxxer.

- - Mum2archer said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    1:41 pm
wow. I can’t really say anything about this article other than wow lol Some people will believe anything

- - Ellen said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    1:23 pm
I’m sure that when my parents were children (they’re now in their eighties) dogs, cats and bunnies didn’t get vaccinations.

- - AmbieBambi said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    12:21 pm
How on earth would you know if your dog has autism?? Lol it’s funny how the dr says there’s no recorded condition in dogs.
I understand if they were worried about maybe the dog getting sick or something.