Vaccinate Every Year??

[BitsyNaceyDog]

My dogs get their Rabies shots evey 3 years as suggested by my vet. I don't get them their bordetella at all, except this year I did get Nacey a bordetella vaccination because she's in a training class, but normally I don't get them that. Their DHLPP I get about every 2 years. I don't vaccinate Buster at all any more as he is 10 years old and never goes anywhere anyway.

[pnance]

My dogs get vaccinated every 3 yrs for rabies (required by law) and yearly for the others. My vet recommends all puppy shots, then annual for about the first 2-3 years, at which point switch to about every other year unless the dog is around other dogs or goes where lots of other dogs go (a dog park for instance), if that's the case she recommends annually. Because they go a lot of places with me and are around other dogs a lot I figured I'd better keep them annual. My cats are another story...I only get them the FVRCP combo and that only because 1 of mine has feline herpes, which I'd rather prevent the others from getting. They don't go outside at all so I don't have to worry about that.

[Glacier]

Nope, I vaccinate when they first arrive if I don't know if they've been vaccinated. Repeat in a year. And that's it. I never vaccinate for kennel cough. I do rabies approximately every 3 years as the city requires that in order to keep my kennel liscense. I don't vaccinate dogs over 7 at all, unless they are new arrivals who's history I don't know. Then they get one series including rabies. I do all my own shots, except rabies. My vet comes to the house for those.

[areias]

My dogs are the family dogs as well, and my parents dictate what they get. Basically that means they haven't had their shots for several years, but I don't see a problem with it. The only thing they ever had was Casey and Boomer caught kennel cough, and with some cough syrup it cleared up in a week. Even dogs with the kennel cough vaccine can get it, its only a 50% coverage. I did get Sam's rabies done at the beginning of the summer, because the vet wouldn't see him otherwise (for a skin problem), I'm taking Casey to the vet soon and will probably get a rabies shot, because we have possums come in the yard and I also take her out to the state park. And Boomer got a 3 year rabies when we adopted him, so he's okay. We don't bother with DHLPP unless we are boarding them.

I do believe in giving puppies their shots, however. Parvo is not a fun thing.