#1: -  

 Giving a pup rabies vacine at 8 weeks old is diabolical and should never be allowed.

Anyone who does this, dosen't have the animals true welfare at heart.

Needless to say, I wouldn't sign this petition.

#130: Margy - Re:  

 Margy, it's not the question we want to give rabiesvaccination at 8 weeks but just till last december we could bring puppies in europe to most of the countries before the age of 12 weeks without any rabiesvaccination  Now that is not possible anymore and the breeders have to keep their pups till 15/16 weeks when they are sold to owners in the neigboring countries. When you only have sold one or two puppies outside your own country it's not a big problem but their are breeders at the borderlines of their countries who sell almost all puppies to the country next to them and even if the new owner is only at 30 miles away he needs to stay with the breeder. And all this is not good for socializing a pup and as a owner you also want your pup around 9 weeks of age ! Hobby-breeders quite often take hollidays to raise a litter and they can not keep a puppy till 16 weeks so they have to cancel foreign demands for puppies so it's also not in the interest of the genepool in several breeds.