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Florida is a wonderful place apparently.

In MD, your dog would be headless before you could scream.

Many years ago due to a dog/rabid raccoons event, I had to get the series.

It was something like 5-7 years later that my doc had a titer run on me and I was “ still good”.

But every 3 years I HAVE to play rabies roulette with my dogs or else.

I do my best to hedge their bets with pre-vax antihistamines and only using no mercury/no mNrA vaccines

It costs a LOT more than the $5 shots offered by the spca clinics but whatever.

I don’t think medical exemptions are a thing in MD.
My ancient Portuguese Podengo Gypsy went without rabies shots for the last 7 years of her life.
She was prone to adverse reactions so I just kept her at home and never took my eyes off her when she was outside.

Sadly the neighbor feeds hordes of unvaxxed stray cats who hang out in my yard all the time, plus the inevitable raccoons who come for the food so I can’t do my other two dogs like I did with Gypsy.

As it stands, I have to run a pre-potty recon of the yard constantly to make sure no vectors are out there.

😢