How Often do you vaccinate your adults?

moorelabs said:

Wow, Karen, 100%...we vaccinate according to the vets schedule, rabies every three years, yearly booster for DHLP. Bordatella every six months. We learned that they do not necessarily have to be boarded to catch this. It swept through the California trial circuit a few springs ago. We do monthly heartworm protection and frontline, too. I wonder how "awesome labs" feels about those?

Click to expand...

ErinsEdge said:

Herbal spray I make up from my secret formula of essential oils. :wink:

I think that people make their vaccination choices depending on their own individual risk which is dependent on exposure. Certainly if you have just one dog that has a low risk you are going to handle things differently than if you board, care for or train dogs for others, compete, or travel to areas that have problems like Lepto. People operate a boarding kennel or work at one or a Vet clinic are going to have their facilities exposed to everything that comes in and dogs that have limited exposure coming into that environment better have good immune systems or vaccinations. Their own private pets will probably have pretty good immunity from constant natural exposure. I wonder though about those that do not believe in vaccinations or boosters what's going to happen when all those underexposed, undervaccinated, or unboostered dogs are exposed to a contageous pathogen at a show where there are many others doing the same. It will probably be someone else's fault for bringing that dog, even though those people probably were not aware their dog was incubating something.

Click to expand...