Until recently, Americans uniformly accepted the science behind vaccinating their dogs and cats against diseases like rabies that could potentially kill not only the pets themselves, but any of the people they bit or scratched.

That was before the Trump administration came along with its Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is known for his aggressively anti-science perspective on all this.

Here is the story in The New York Times, Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too, of a woman (pictured above), just four years out of vet school, who has a practice that is seriously threated by this kind of ignorance.  From the article: “I actually had someone scream and yell at us and storm out because we required rabies vaccines for her cats,” Dr. McGuire said, adding that the owner had accused her of trying to “kill her cats with vaccines.”

Anti-Vaxxers Are Now Denying Vaccinations to Their Pets