Why do I need to vaccinate my puppy?

[Redford]

91. I'm a big believer of The rabies vaccine.

Last spring a skunk came up out of the creek on my property and chased me thru the pasture. I retrieved my .22 from the tack room just in time to see it bite one horse several times on the front legs and then turn and come after me again. It managed to bite another horse in the same fashion that got between me and the skunk.

I retreated into the barn with my trusty .22 and when it came running down the breezeway at me I shot it several times. I called the county and they picked up the carcass at my house and shipped off to Austin to be tested. It came back positive for rabies. Both horses had been vaccinated two months earlier but were still quarantined on my property for the next 45 days.

My vet uses me as the example to his other clients as to why vaccination is important and I will never let their vaccinations slide.