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[Pasha838]

Here no one gets vaccinated by rabies unless exposed to a rabid animals. Apparently the multiple shots are given in the belly and quite painful.

I tried to find out on one Russian-language forum, they told me that specifically here (in Russia) there are some 4 vaccines, three local and one, it seems, from Germany. But, apparently, they are not made for everyone, but only for hunting workers, foresters, veterinarians and people involved in taxoderm (who make stuffed wild animals).
It seems (I didn’t find out for sure) early vaccination is not so painful, and many injections are given in cases of great urgency, if a person has been bitten by a rabid animal. And this is very dangerous, because vaccinations may not work if the person arrives too late (many days after the bite).
The village where I live is a rather provincial place in this regard, there is no clinic, school, kindergarten or even a grocery store, and the clinic with doctors is located 30 kilometers from here. I'm not sure I want to go there just to learn something, so I haven't made any decisions yet.
Tomorrow I will give my dog an anti-rabies injection (we do that every year), but there everything is simple - there is only one injection, it is given at the withers. They also give some other injection (the veterinarian), it is given in the thigh of the leg, but it is something else, it is not a rabies vaccine, it seems to be some kind of painkiller.
But these are veterinary vaccinations for dogs, they don’t have vaccinations for people )
In addition, this is a rather mediocre clinic with mediocre doctors (i speack about the clinic for the people, not veterinary clinic), it seems that it exists only to issue medical certificates to people if they want to take sick leave and not go to work, or some kind of certificate if, on the contrary, they get a job. Although vaccinations may well be done there.
The last time I got vaccinated was in Moscow, but that was about 10 years ago. And they definitely didn’t have rabies vaccines, these were some kind of vaccinations that are given to all employees of restaurants and food factories. True, I didn’t even think to ask which ones.
On the other hand, the weather is gradually deteriorating, it’s likely that snow may even fall soon, I’ll stop herding goats and going into the forest, maybe I don’t really need the vaccine anymore. I really don’t want to go to the city to find out about vaccination. It seems like it should be, but I have so much to do that I don’t know whether I want to go or not at all...

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[Beaker99]

 

[Ponypoor]

Here no one gets vaccinated by rabies unless exposed to a rabid animals. Apparently the multiple shots are given in the belly and quite painful.

The vaccine for post exposure to suspected rabid animal is now in the arm, no more painful than any other vaccine.

I have had pre-exposure vaccine for rabies as I cared for wildlife rehab and raising baby animals. It’s 3 shots in the arm 2 weeks apart if I remember correctly.

Here horses dogs and cats all are vaccinated for rabies. In fact I vaccinate for everything I can with the animals an ounce of prevention is worth $1500.00 Vet bill!

I asked my Vet about vaccines for the chooks and was told the only vaccines available are for those huge factory farms… hmmm seems our poor chooks always get short changed.

 

[Ponypoor]

In addition to the garden, I have several “wild” trees growing on my site - spruce, oak, pine and birch. I can't pinpoint exactly where these mice are, but they appear to be nesting in one of these trees.
The sounds they make are quite strange, at first I even decided that it was a fox that had caught a rat or some kind of bird. And only then did I realize that these were bats, because the sounds went on for a long time and constantly. They are quiet and do not interfere, but out of habit I am always on guard.
For some reason there are a lot of foxes here this year. All summer I go around locking the birds up at night and only letting them out in the morning, and it’s still easy for me, because the dog has the habit of guarding the birds, laying down not far from the pens.
Parents once went to the market and to a store in another village to buy halva, seasonings for canning cucumbers, salt and fresh watermelons, and along the way they met as many as three (!) foxes in different places.
I’m already thinking about whether I should go to the city and get vaccinated against rabies, just in case. I always vaccinate my dog (every year), but I myself go unvaccinated, walking in the forest with goats all summer and picking berries, mushrooms, and nuts. However, foxes are not like mad people - they run away at the sight of a person, and do not behave inappropriately. It’s just that there seem to be a lot of them.

Pre exposure vaccine is not required, BUT if you are ever bitten by any animal (wild or domesticated) wash the wounds for 20 min with soap and running water, then go to a medical clinic for a post exposure Rabis vaccine and a tetanus vaccine. Tetanus vaccines should be done every 10 yrs, or after any puncture wounds.

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[Pasha838]

The vaccine for post exposure to suspected rabid animal is now in the arm, no more painful than any other vaccine.

I have had pre-exposure vaccine for rabies as I cared for wildlife rehab and raising baby animals. It’s 3 shots in the arm 2 weeks apart if I remember correctly.

Here horses dogs and cats all are vaccinated for rabies. In fact I vaccinate for everything I can with the animals an ounce of prevention is worth $1500.00 Vet bill!

I asked my Vet about vaccines for the chooks and was told the only vaccines available are for those huge factory farms… hmmm seems our poor chooks always get short changed.

Yesterday I vaccinated my dog against rabies. He was not bitten, it was just a routine vaccination. This time the veterinarian said to give the injection to the thigh of the leg, and not to the withers. Why i do not know.
We don’t take our dog to the veterinarian, he is not accustomed to a car and generally does not go beyond the boundaries of the site (our site is not very small, there is room for a walk), the parents brought the vaccine from the veterinarian. I didn't think to ask how much it cost. However, this is probably not interesting - I live in Russia, this is a completely different state, and the prices here are completely different, usually much lower.
The veterinarian said that the vaccination can be done once every three years, but if there is a high risk of being bitten by rabid animals, then it should be done every year. Apparently, the effectiveness of vaccines decreases over time.
The vaccination is painful and in addition to it, a painkiller injection is given. However, today the dog is already running quite cheerfully.
To be honest, I haven’t even decided whether to get vaccinated next year or take a break.
In general, my parents brought the vaccine in a thermos with ice, I took it out and vaccinated the dog. The veterinarian can give an injection, but then the dog would have to be transported far by car.
There is also a traveling veterinarian who can come, but, unfortunately, he is an absolute charlatan. There's no point in working with him. He simply goes for money, imitating veterinary work, and prescribes diagnoses and treatments for animals completely randomly. And this, naturally, does not lead to anything good.
In this regard, the situation in Russia is generally strange. From my own experience, I can say the following - if the clinic is located in a cramped and cheap space, and the worker himself, that is, a veterinarian or a doctor (for people) is clearly poor, then this is a very good specialist. If a veterinarian drives around in an expensive car, the clinic itself is a very beautiful building in the center of a city or village - that’s all, this veterinarian will not treat, he will simply take money and invent non-existent diseases in order to take more money. And if you contact him with a small problem, he will deliberately make a big one with the wrong treatment in order to take even more money. In the end, the exhausted animal will have to be euthanized.
The same applies here to dental clinics for people. I treat my teeth in some basement (!) of a residential building, but there is a doctor there with more than 25 years of experience and he does everything very well and for a long time. When I went to expensive, elite clinics, a lot of money was spent, but I only had time to treat my teeth; something had to be redone there all the time. In cheap clinics (here) the approach is different - the doctor does everything as efficiently as possible so that the client leaves and never comes again and doesn’t bother him. Such specialists have a rather different approach; it happens that they are not interested in money at all, i.e. They will do the work, and they will only take money for the materials. But at the same time, they are often quite rude and unfriendly and can read a lot of strict lectures to the client about caring for the health of a person or animal
Such are the oddities of Russian reality. However, I apologize, it’s unlikely that this is interesting, I’m just a little emotional, sharing my impressions.

 

[Pasha838]

Tonight it was -7 C. I picked the last cabbage from the garden. This is a late variety, in addition, I planted it a little late, so the heads of cabbage turned out to be very small. (In truth, these were some very old seeds that I once forgot in the attic, and then in the spring I suddenly decided to plant, but the deadlines had already passed). But the cabbage turned out quite tasty. I mixed minced meat with boiled rice and chopped
onions, put it in cabbage and cooked it in tomato sauce with some sweet pepper.

 

[Beaker99]

 

[ChicksnMore]

Yesterday I vaccinated my dog against rabies. He was not bitten, it was just a routine vaccination. This time the veterinarian said to give the injection to the thigh of the leg, and not to the withers. Why i do not know.
We don’t take our dog to the veterinarian, he is not accustomed to a car and generally does not go beyond the boundaries of the site (our site is not very small, there is room for a walk), the parents brought the vaccine from the veterinarian. I didn't think to ask how much it cost. However, this is probably not interesting - I live in Russia, this is a completely different state, and the prices here are completely different, usually much lower.
The veterinarian said that the vaccination can be done once every three years, but if there is a high risk of being bitten by rabid animals, then it should be done every year. Apparently, the effectiveness of vaccines decreases over time.
The vaccination is painful and in addition to it, a painkiller injection is given. However, today the dog is already running quite cheerfully.
To be honest, I haven’t even decided whether to get vaccinated next year or take a break.
In general, my parents brought the vaccine in a thermos with ice, I took it out and vaccinated the dog. The veterinarian can give an injection, but then the dog would have to be transported far by car.
There is also a traveling veterinarian who can come, but, unfortunately, he is an absolute charlatan. There's no point in working with him. He simply goes for money, imitating veterinary work, and prescribes diagnoses and treatments for animals completely randomly. And this, naturally, does not lead to anything good.
In this regard, the situation in Russia is generally strange. From my own experience, I can say the following - if the clinic is located in a cramped and cheap space, and the worker himself, that is, a veterinarian or a doctor (for people) is clearly poor, then this is a very good specialist. If a veterinarian drives around in an expensive car, the clinic itself is a very beautiful building in the center of a city or village - that’s all, this veterinarian will not treat, he will simply take money and invent non-existent diseases in order to take more money. And if you contact him with a small problem, he will deliberately make a big one with the wrong treatment in order to take even more money. In the end, the exhausted animal will have to be euthanized.
The same applies here to dental clinics for people. I treat my teeth in some basement (!) of a residential building, but there is a doctor there with more than 25 years of experience and he does everything very well and for a long time. When I went to expensive, elite clinics, a lot of money was spent, but I only had time to treat my teeth; something had to be redone there all the time. In cheap clinics (here) the approach is different - the doctor does everything as efficiently as possible so that the client leaves and never comes again and doesn’t bother him. Such specialists have a rather different approach; it happens that they are not interested in money at all, i.e. They will do the work, and they will only take money for the materials. But at the same time, they are often quite rude and unfriendly and can read a lot of strict lectures to the client about caring for the health of a person or animal
Such are the oddities of Russian reality. However, I apologize, it’s unlikely that this is interesting, I’m just a little emotional, sharing my impressions.

I know what you're talking about on that. I've seen some of that here. I've been taking care of a pig for a bit and a pig sanctuary was paying the vet bills so they had the choice of which vet. They use a very fancy clinic that's a two hour round trip from my home. So four hours of driving each time I took him there. They treated him for two months but kept sending him home with an active, undrained abscess and no antibiotics. I never even got to speak to the actual vet, only the vet tech that carries the animal back for treatment. I finally cut him open myself, drained and cleaned out the abscess, gave him penicillin shots from my home supplies for a few days and one week later he was good as gold. The most frustrating experience I've ever had. But o they had a beautiful vet site! A huge TV screen on the wall with changing pictures telling you all about animals and the vets. Little dog beds next to chairs so your puppy can lay down all comfy while you wait. Fanciest vet office I've ever seen, with the most incompetent vets I've ever experienced.