If you think your vet should follow the guidelines for treatment recommend by the AAHA and US veternarian medical schools, don't bring your dog here. For example, my new puppy received a combo vaccine here which included giardia. Well, the AAHA latest guidelines for vaccine recommendations says the giardia vaccine is not recommended (among others)! Why? because it doesn't prevent giardi according to published studies. Read here: http://www.aahanet.org/resources/guidelines_canine.aspx\r
They do this just to make a buck - they don't follow common sense or good practice when treating pets. There are other vaccines as well like leptospirosis- which they will talk you into and which is noncore or not required. No they won't tell you this, or explain this to you.\r
Further, my dog has come down with giardia twice since getting this vaccine from VCA which he didn't need and is not recommended.\r
I would use extreme caution when taking my pet to a vet who doesn't follow the latest guidelin
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