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.