“I am on benefits, I breed dogs and make loadsamoney!!! What I do is, I drive a massive Range Rover, i'm not kidding and I drive down to the PDSA with my poorly animals and take up the precious time of the vets and vet nurse who are up against a system that allows spongers like me to use and abuse their services. I am on all the correct benefits to qualify, I sell my pups for lots of money. I would rather USE the PDSA and save loads of cash in vet fees, then go and do what i'm good at spending all that saved money down Witham! Really sorry to MOI of Hull, but the reason that your animal cant be fitted in right now is because me and all my fellow benefit dodgers are stretching the Charity run PDSA to the max...Oh and if I don't get seen on time i'll stamp my feet, because I'm used to getting everything laid on in this world!!! If you are a genuine individual who has a sick animal, then I DONT apologise because I've got loadsamoney and you haven't!”

“Im just hoping the owner of the dog that s**ts (at least twice a week) outside my house catches a good dose of parvo.”

“Phil

And had these adult dogs been given their initial vaccinations against parvo?

Billy - the other day you said that you lived near East Park and could hear the concert for free. That has got to mean Holderness Road, Summergangs Road or James Reckitt. Are you saying that dogs are chasing cars along those busy roads?”

“Walter, my comments regarding the booster shots was in relation to earlier discussion of booster jabs. I'm well aware that my own case is not related to this, however my own dog was treated at the Vets Now hospital (it shares the premises with the PDSA but is unrelated) and a number of the dogs being treated with similar symptoms were adult dogs.”

“I use the PDSA and know how difficult they are finding it coping with the influx of Parvo dogs. Anyone who has seen the photos of the poor puppy that had parvo will understand why they are asking pet owners to vaccinate their dogs. They have been fab with us and have always trusted their opinions.

I took in a rescue dog that had Parvo (didn't know until it was too late) and saw him suffer dreadfully with it, he was in excruciating pain and the vet nearly lost him on several occasions. He lived, just, but was a long time recovering from it...

Thankfully my own dogs didn't catch it as they were all vaccinated. I would NEVER chance putting a dog through such agony, especially when it can be prevented with a simple yearly booster.

I volunteer for a dog rescue and have also encountered dogs who have reacted to the vaccinations, so I do understand and respect both sides to the argument.

My dogs are going for their annual boosters tomorrow and I will do so with a balanced, researched knowledge that I am doing so with my dogs best interests at heart.”

“Paul Fielding - how can someone on benefits afford a full pedigree dog?

And if you're not on benefits, why are you using the PDSA?”

“Phil - your puppy having suspected parvo has nothing to do with booster jabs, yet in your first posting you say that the annual booster should be a legal requirement.

I am all for vaccinations, just not repeating them every year.

My dogs have had lots of vaccinations - in fact they both have a Pets' Passport so have been vaccinated against rabies, ticks and tapeworms as well as all the usual diseases.

As for my pets being healthy. I never said that. What I did say was that none of them had ever contracted a disease that they had been vaccinated against and that they never got booster jabs.”

“Walter, to suggest that all pets will be healthy because yours have been fortunate to be so is dangerous. Our puppy was suspected of having parvo recently, he was taken ill in the short period of time between us taking him home and his first set of jabs. His treatment involved several nights hospitalisation, a plasma transfusion, and was very nearly taken from us. I wouldn't wish anyone to go through what we did over that period of time and by not protecting their animals people are at risk of doing so.”

“OK Phil, you do what you want to as far as booster vaccinations for your pets go but don't try and force other people to do the same. Maybe reading some of the reports on the internet will give people with more open minds food for thought. Just because you don't agree with a report doesn't make it untrue.

(You obviously have anger management problems when people disagree with you.)

I have had dogs and cats for over 40 years. I have always given them their initial vaccinations and, at the advice of my vet (who wasn't out to make as much money as he could from his clients and has since retired,) never had booster vaccinations.

And guess what. None of them have ever caught any of the illnesses that they were initially vaccinated against.

If booster vaccinations are so important, why don't you get an annual vaccination against polio? Why is a once in a lifetime vaccination OK for us but not for our pets? Even a tetanus jab lasts for 10 years. Could it be something to do with our vaccinations being free and our animals' ones paid for?

Paul - you have learnt that not all vets know what they are talking about. One of my cats was given a week to live with kidney failure 5 years ago. I could have had her put to sleep as kidney failure is a horrible death but something didn't seem right and she is still alive and very well. I had her kidneys' tested a few months ago (at the cost of over £60) and they are fine.”

“That'll be a vet that you have to pay for Paul rather than a charity. It's strange that your questioning the vet for not knowing the breed of your dog when there doesn't appear to be such a breed, do you mean an Akita or a Japanese Akita Inu?

Regarding parvo, there is very little that anyone can do to treat it other than keep the dog well hydrated and hope that it's immune system kicks in before it is too late.”