What vaccinations do your dog(s) get?

[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?

[Freedom]

5 in 1 means 5 vaccines included in one shot.

The 5 in 1 is DHLPP. Often abbreviated a the "distemper/parvo 5 in 1." It covers: canine Distemper; Hepatitis; Leptospirosis; Parainfluenza; Parvovirus. All are very contagious.

The 6 in 1 is DHLPP-C. It covers the above PLUS Corona virus, also contagious.


Rabies is always a separate shot.

Bortadella (kennel cough) is also given separately.

The web site for the bichon club recommends getting the shots at different visits due the size of the dog. I'm still just getting up to speed on all of this for Sugar. Hmmm, I'll need to find out how my vet bills if I take her in at different times, just for a shot.

[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.

[luvofallhorses]

mine get distemper, parvo, and rabies (every 2 years for rabies here)

[areias]

Rabies once a year, most places here don't do 3 year. For the indoor cats...first set of vaccines then nothing. I haven't yet decided what I want to do as far as vaccines. We usually go away about once a year...the younger ones are going into boarding...so the "young" ones get yearly vaccines and the older ones don't go too far from here, so they only get their rabies. The older ones were fully vaccinated up until they were 4 years old each anyway.

You might want to check out k9krazee posts-at least one of her dogs got lepto from being in the woods. That makes me think twice about vaccines.

Heartguard year round and tested yearly.

[sparks19]

RAbies, Bordatella, and Lyme Disease.

[borzoimom]

canis- to not give rabies is asking for trouble. If your dog bites someone, there is only one way to insure the dog doesnt have it- KILL the dog.. Most people will not allow you to isolate your dog for the time period- and they will kill your dog..
I give rabies now every two years because where I live on this mountian, they do run into wild animals- its for their protection more than anything. However- when I lived in the city, it was every 3 years..

[Freedom]

Good point, Michelle, I should have stated that, too. I wasn't advocating NOT getting the rabies shot, by the way. Just showing how extensive some folks take the controversy.

[borzoimom]

Good point, Michelle, I should have stated that, too. I wasn't advocating NOT getting the rabies shot, by the way. Just showing how extensive some folks take the controversy.

So many of the Asian countries are having to euthenize their pets because of a sudden rabies outbreak.. All of us have heard the news.
Without the vaccine- if the dog or cats bites someone- they will kill the dog to test the brain.

[Canis-Lupess]

Borzoimom - We do not have Rabies in the UK. It does not exist here. Thats why dogs don't have to be vaccinated against it here. It doesn't even exist among the wild animal population.

Rabies shots are not offered because they are not needed.

The U.K is a rabies free country hence our quarantine laws.

[pitc9]

Rabies as often as required by law here in Ohio (every 5 years)
Lepto every year.
5/6 in 1 every three years.

[My Peanuts]

I give rabies and distemper yearly. Also they are on monthly heartworm protection from may-december. They get tested yearly for heartworm before they start the treatment.