We Should Be Concerned With Pet Vaccine Injury

By Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at tucker@brownstone.org
September 11, 2025Updated: September 14, 2025

Commentary

A New York Times writer last week was appalled at growing questions about the vaccine regime for people and especially outraged that people are starting to ask questions about pets, too.

“A veterinarian recently told NBC News about people expressing their concerns to her about giving their pets vaccines out of fear that they will harm their pets, causing autism or other cognitive issues,” the writer wrote. “When people are afraid of dog autism, it’s going to take a lot more than some harsh words at a little-watched Senate hearing to get us back on track.”

Is this really so crazy? I happen to not think so. Farmers around the country frequently report on adverse consequences from animal treatments, usually forced. And it is the same with pets. People know and love their pets and follow their outlooks and behaviors carefully. States require all sorts of shots. But often following the shot, the pet’s behavior changes.

Yes, there is rampant fear of dog and cat autism. This is no laughing matter.

A survey in Science Direct reports an astonishing amount of public resistance to repeated and profligate use of vaccines on pets.

“A large minority of dog owners consider vaccines administered to dogs to be unsafe (37 percent), ineffective (22 percent), and/or unnecessary (30 percent). A slight majority of dog owners (53 percent) endorse at least one of these three positions,” the survey reads.

It has a technical name, if you can believe it: CVH, for “canine vaccine hesitancy.”

Such owners are treated with disdain by the pet-doctor industry. My own dog had a rabies shot and the state demanded another after a year. We had a titer test to check antibodies. It came in as showing already seven times the amount of rabies antibodies needed to ward off infection.

I figured that this would be enough to gain an exemption. It was not to be. I went from one veterinarian to another looking for someone to give me an exemption. None would. I was frequently told that the only conditions under which an exemption can be given is if the pet’s life is in danger.

How in the world can one prove that? One cannot.

Meanwhile the entire system is imposing these shots on dogs despite scientific evidence that they are unnecessary. This whole policy is radically anti-science.

You wondered why health officials were declining to recognize natural immunity in 2021? Well, they have long dismissed even vaccine-induced immunity in dogs. They give the shot and then later don’t even recognize the immunities created by the shot.

It’s not a stretch to say that this is all about selling products. In other words, veterinarians are increasingly behaving as human health clinics do. Our poor pets are jabbed to death in the context of “wellness visits,” denied care if they are not up on their shots, fed horrid food that is highly processed, and otherwise form-fitted into an industrial perception of what health is. No surprise that anecdotal evidence suggests they are living less long and are ever less healthy.

The industry gets rich off sickness. Therefore, they might as well make the pets sick. They have no incentive to make them well.

The idea of wellness visits for pets is entirely new. It came about when private equity started buying up all the clinics. It seems that some smart investors realized that people will spend lots of money on their pets. They have an inelastic demand curve for the service, i.e., pet owners are willing to pay whatever it takes.

As a result, the vultures descended on the veterinarian clinics and took over their management. This is why when you go, the doctor is forever pushing more and more and more inoculations for even fast-mutating viruses. If you ask about natural immunity from exposure, they will treat you like an anti-vaxer and deny you service.

If you don’t have a veterinarian and are not up-to-date on your shots, you cannot get them groomed or find a dog sitter to take them. They become outcasts. If your dog happens to bite someone or gets in a fight and someone calls animal control, they will take your pet and slaughter him or her without consequence.

This is how cruel and unscientific the system has become. It’s no wonder that more than half the people surveyed have expressed doubts about the vaccine regime for their lovable pets. Dog autism? Maybe. There is no reporting system for such a thing. We literally have no idea how common it is. We would be mentally and emotionally damaging pets daily and not even know it.

Making matters worse, if you express doubts about any feature of the regime, including processed and bagged diets, you are regarded as a crank and a fool, the same way they are treating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today.

To be sure, the first time I heard concern about this issue, I dismissed it as ridiculous. But that was before I acquired a puppy and faced the problem directly. I now resent the heck out of anyone who wants to jab him and poison him with untested meds, especially when there is absolutely no reason to think that these products are good for him.

Does anyone even care? Apparently, writers for The New York Times think this issue is stupid and obviously insane. But it is not. We love our pets. We don’t want them poisoned, jabbed, malnourished, or even chipped as the CDC now requires for leaving and entering the country. This is all abuse, and there is zero liability when things go wrong.

Dr. Robert Malone reports that there is no system in place at all to report livestock injury from vaccination. The manufacturer refers you elsewhere and elsewhere refers to elsewhere, too. You literally have no recourse at all. So it is no wonder that pet owners are looking for states where the mandates are as liberal as possible.

We are doing to our pets what we are doing to humans. I hope you understand that this is a serious problem. The lifespans of both pets and humans are declining, mostly for iatrogenic, or treatment-caused, reasons. We have eschewed natural solutions and the common sense of the ages in favor of potions, experts, and systems of control.

Plenty of people are making money but are we and our pets getting healthier? With growing dependency on veterinarian systems and drugs, even pet owners are losing the intelligence and discernment to do what is right for our kind friends.

It is not unreasonable to be concerned about dog autism or the adverse effect of jabs on horses and sheep. Where are the animal rights organizations when you need them? Our pets deserve more than sniffy dismissals written by urban elites.

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