06/16/2025
ALL veterinarians should be doing
TITER testing before ANY pokes. This is a good post for you all to read. Look for veterinarians who do in house titer testing. Titer testing is only expensive if they do not do it “in house” meaning they have to send out the tests. Titer testing “ in house” should not be more then $100. Knowledge is EVERYTHING when it comes to health. Always be willing to learn. Love you all🙌🏻🙏✨🐾
I talk a lot about titer testing.
Because it's important, and could literally save your pet's life!
Because I believe that titer testing before re-vaccination (I never, ever use the word 'booster' as it's inaccurate and manipulative) should be the gold standard of care right across the veterinary industry.
Because the well-being of animals is more important than profits! (When I stopped revaccinating blindly and started titer testing in my home visit vet practice many years ago, my income dropped by 20%.)
Because your beloved pets should NEVER be given any biological medicine (vaccination) that is unnecessary, especially when it can and does cause harm.
But I've had a lot of questions about titer testing. When should I titer test? How often?
C3 vaccines fo dogs and F3 vaccines for cats give a duration of immunity of AT LEAST 5-7 years. Often a lot longer. Sometimes life long, from a single vaccination given after 16 weeks of age.
Animals may be exposed to low levels of disease in the wild that cause more antibody production, too.
My recommendation is to titer test a month after the first vaccination - to make sure it has worked (after the final kitten/puppy vax). If the tirter is good, then retest in 3 years.
If you want to be super-safe (or if you need certification for kennels, competition, etc) then titer test every year after that.
However, you could test every two or three years.
Titer levels reduce slowly in some animals. They stay strong and don't wane in others. If you've done a few tests ina row and they are staying trong, not reducing, then maybe you can stretch out the time between tests.
But if there is a reduction in antibody levels between one test and the next, then a shorter interval to re-test is probably a wiser choice.
Even when antibodies wane, there will still be memory T-Cells that can make more antibodies in the face of ifection BUT if you want to be sure of preventing any disease symprtoms, keeping antibody levels high is the only way to go.
Love to hear how you approach this with your pets? Please let me know what you do int he chat, and what your pets' titer test results have been like?
I help animals all over the world heal and be well + happy with holistic veterinary care, kind training, and energy healing. If you want me to help your pets, message me! Zoom and in person appts available.
