Dog'ged Juniors

I have recently started giving my cats and dogs their vaccines myself.

Does anybody else do this also??

I considered it, but without proper training or certification to know what you're doing, you could potentionally send the vaccine into tissue that it shouldn't be, the vaccine could backfire or create a whole different problem.

BUT, if you have the proper training and such, go for it! I've known a few breeders who took a class from a breeder who is a Vet (he held a seminar in the area, kicking myself now that I didn't go) and said that it is wonderful, and a lot less stressful.

My mom's a vet so she does all of ours.

I haven't actually had any "training" for it. I had my sister who is a nurse and a friend who is also a nurse and does her own shots for all of her animals (horses, dogs, cats pretty much every farm animal that would ever need a shot. lol) teach me how to do it properly. 

Kate,

Your lucky! I wish my mom was a vet....

Well... the only problem with that is although we are all mammals, animals and people are extremely different. In a lot of cases diseases that are mild to us, can fatally affect them, and vice versa. Without actual instruction on how to properly give a dog/cat/whatever animal an injection- you really don't know what you're getting into.

Certain vaccines are given in the hip/rear area, in the back of the neck, or in the shoulder blade, among other areas for specific reasons. People vaccines and animal vaccines are so completely different, and how it is approached. Hence why Vets are Vets and Doctors are Doctors. Vet Techs and Nurses are no where near the same.

I don't mean to be on a soap-box, if that's how it sounds, but I can't stress how extremely horrible it could end up without proper training beforehand.