Canine Antivaxxers

[Catherine]

It is crazy thinking. We worked for years to produce vaccines so we would not be at the mercy of every infectious disease.
We even produced vaccines to protect our pets. We are finally living free of the fear constant epidemics. WE are working to find vaccines for things like Ebola. 

Now when we are finally having some safety, a group of misinformed and misguided people have turned against vaccines and are trying to turn others against them. It is crazy thinking. If they only endangered themselves we could ignore them, but they put vulnerable people at risk and they put vulnerable pets at risk. Having grown up at the time when the polio vaccine was new and other vaccines did not exist I can't believe people are so ignorant about basic health matters. 

I remember the spread of distemper in dogs and the spread of Feline Leukemia. We lost a lot of beautiful cats because it spread and there was no vaccine. If there had been a vaccine our cats would have been protected. Why would anyone who loves their pet put it at such risk?