What vaccinations do your dog(s) get?

[lute]

My guys get their rabies every 3yrs. Charlie and Gracie both got their shots required by their breeders when they were puppies. Charlie actually just got his rabies the other day.

[Pom mommy]

My older girl Missy just gets rabies. The puppies got everything this year but next year will probably only get the rabies and distemper.

[cali]

1 parvo at 16 weeks, and thats it for life.

[Love That Collie]

Rabies every 2 years as required by state law. (But I would do it anyway)
DHPP every year. Lepto is rare around here.
NASAL Bordetella vaccine.
Corona virus vaccine.
And heartworm test yearly.

[Catlady711]

Good reasons to finish entire series of 'puppy/kitten shots' and keep up with boosters as your veterinarian recommends for your dog/cat which may vary depending on age of pet, risk factors, and the area you live in.

Shelters take in animals that are surrendered, and strays. If it's in the shelters, it's in the communities and vise versa. These links are just the most recent ones.


Distemper outbreak Washington

Parvo outbreak in Georgia

Parvo outbreak Pennsylvania

Parvo outbreak Nevada

Parvo outbreak California

Parvo outbreak Tennessee


Feline Panleukopenia outbreak Florida

Information about Distemper

Information on Rabies

Information about Parvo

Information on Lepto

[mike001]

Rabies every 4 yrs. Nothing else after puppy shots.

[borzoimom]

Rabies every 4 yrs. Nothing else after puppy shots.

If my dogs were not going to shows, I would do the same after the 1 year booster. My vet believes every two years for the boosters, verses the norm of yearly with an adult dog.
IMO Bordatella is a not only a waste of money- but doesnt even protect the dog for all the strains- and can even cause pnemonia as well.

[GreyhoundGirl]

The records say... (july 2006)

1 heartworm test
1yearly examination/booster
1 rabies tag #
1advantage multi 55

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Mine get their rabies shots every 3 years, because it's required by law.

[JenBKR]

I just realized that I forgot to answer my own question

I'm doing rabies every two years and heartworm tests. This is probably a stupid question, but what is a 6-in-1 or a 5-in-1?

[areias]

Oh yes..wanted to mention...I don't vaccinate against bordatella if I can help it. When I had the original 3..all were vaccinated against it. I was working at a boarding kennel then, and we had an outbreak of kennel cough (about 15 dogs caught it...all were vaccinated..). None of my dogs had had any contact with the kennel since about a month prior to the outbreak when they went in for baths. I guess I must have brought the virus home on my clothes, because all 3 of my dogs got it, and they were vaccinated (nasally). I no longer vaccinate for bordatella, its a waste of money.

[CathyBogart]

ITA about Bardatella being a waste of money, and so does my vet. Jasper got it a week after being vaccinated against it.

[Canis-Lupess]

In the UK, we don't have rabies anymore so dogs here don't need to be vaccinated against it. It must be a bummer having a disease like that lurking in the country you live in.

The main shots that dogs are supposed to get here are the usual puppy shots and then a booster for the same thing every year from then but I think the boosters are more a money making scam than anything else. I may have them get a booster for the first few years, say up to about 6 and then leave them. A vet told my dad that dogs don't really need a booster after that time, they build their own immunity. I also read an article somewhere that yearly boosters might actually be harmful to dogs but that the vaccine companies are still instructing vets to advise pet owners to get their pets done yearly and many vets themselves don't know any diffferent. It was a vet that wrote the article but I can't remember where I read it. Has anybody else heard about this?

Still, many kennels and shows, training clubs etc...require that you booster them every year for life and request to see the vaccination records in order to prove it.

The shots that my dogs had protected them against: distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, parvovirosis and parainfluenza. Those were the ones ticked in their vaccination records they recieve and the name of the vaccine was vanguard. The company that makes it I assume.

[Freedom]

Yes, Canis Lupess, we have that debate here as well, as to whether any or all of the shots are necessary, dangerous, side effects outweigh the benefits. I know folks who get no shots for their dogs, and some who don't even get the rabies shot; they have small house dogs, figure the dog is never going to get bitten by a rabid animal, and the heck with the laws.

The same applies to the cat side of things. I know my vet doesn't even recommend some of the cat vaccines which most folks get; so I don't get those on my cats, either. And my vet doesn't give my older cats (about 8 and over) the ones he gives the younger cats. Because my cats stay indoors, he and I agreed not to give something, can't recall what just now.

[tikeyas_mom]

Tikeya gets rabies done every 3ish years.. Im not sure what Shaun has had done to Ebony and Daisy... I dont do any other vaccinations to Tikeya, because I used to be uber perinoid about it, till she started getting warts from over vaccinating her.