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Summary: Advice on first shots. Learn when to give puppies their first shots and which vaccinations to give annually in this free video.
Sarah is a resident exotic animal health technician and has been working as a technician for seven years, but she began working with animals over 12 years ago at the Wildlife Care...read more
" Hi my name is Sarah and my name is Haley and we are two of the technicians here at Extra Care Animal Hospital and on behalf of Expert Village.com, we are going to speak with you today a little bit about the care of your dog. I am here to discuss vaccinating your dog. It is extremely important that you do continue to do vaccine your dog throughout their life. You generally start the vaccines when they are 6 to 8 weeks of age doing them every 2 to 4 weeks depending on veterinarian’s preference up until they are around 4 months of age. It is very important to get your dog vaccinated annually for rabies and distemper as certain areas of the country do have very high incidents of rabies; usually from foxes and raccoons so you definitely want your dog to be protected in the event that your dog escapes from your house. Other things such as canine distemper and parvo virus should be vaccinated annually as these are the disease that can be very easily spread to your dog. They can be spread when your dog comes into contact with another dog that has these diseases or they can be spread from encountering areas where dogs shedding the viruses have been present. If you are interested in getting more information about our animal hospital you can visit our website at www.extracareanimalhospital.net."
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deafdanemom said
on 8/2/2008 What a bunch of crap! Why would anyone want to overload a developing immune system with shots every 2 weeks? Also there is no need for yearly boosters. Once a animal is immune to something they aren't going to get any more immune or magically loose their immunity after a year. If you want more information about the dangers of over vaccinating do a search for vaccinosis. If you want to be sure the shots are still effective do a titer test, don't just pump them full of viruses.