Dog Vaccination How Often And Which Vaccination?
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It is important for every dog owner to ensure that the dog has the correct vaccinations. However, there is often a lot of uncertainty about vaccination, which is why we regularly receive the following questions:
What is vaccination and why do we do it?
Do I always have to vaccinate my dog?
How often should I get my dog vaccinated?
What vaccinations are there?
To create more clarity, we discuss all these questions in this article. In addition, we provide even more important information that you need to know. If you have questions about vaccination, you can of course always contact your vet, who can tell you more about it.
What is Vaccination?
If dogs need to be vaccinated or vaccinated, they get a shot with dead or harmless germs injected into the body. This ensures that the immune system will make a defense against these germs, without making the dog sick at that time.
As soon as the dog comes into contact with a disease for which it has been vaccinated, the antibodies (created by the vaccination) attack the disease. Unfortunately, there is not a vaccine for every disease.
Dog vaccination is one of the most important reasons for preventing diseases and parasites that affect your pet dog during its life stages.
Among the most important of these parasites are scabies, eye diseases, and ticks, and we have talked about them previously in many articles in MY pet twin that you can refer to
Why is it important to vaccinate a dog?
Why it is so important to vaccinate dogs is because vaccinated dogs have a better chance of survival against certain infectious diseases. The immune system becomes stronger and can therefore work against the pathogen to get it out of the body.
Examples include parvo and Rabies (rabies). It is therefore important to keep vaccinating the dog, especially when you go abroad. Rabies still occurs there.
This is a short video from the advanced animal care channel that explains everything about dog vaccinations such as puppy vaccination schedule, dog vaccination price, rabies vaccination and much more.
Standard vaccinations
Your dog can be vaccinated against various diseases. Some vaccinations are repeated every time and other vaccinations are given when you go on holiday abroad, take your dog to a dog show or bring your dog to stay in a boarding house or other places where many dogs come together.
1. Parvo
Parvo is also called the CP virus, the canine parvovirus and is almost identical to the feline distemper virus. Parvo is an infectious disease that is spread through feces and vomit. This virus is very resistant and difficult to treat. Every dog is susceptible to it, but Parvo is most commonly seen in puppies under 1 year old.
2. Weil's disease
Weil's disease, also called leptospirosis, is a transmissible infectious bacteria for both dogs and humans. Therefore, Weil's disease is a zoonosis. Dogs can get this disease from other animals, for example from wild rats, horses, cattle and pigs. The dogs can get the disease through eating dead animals, wounds, urine from animals infected with this bacteria and stagnant water.
3. Distemper
Carré disease or as we know it dog disease in a contagious virus that can cause inflammation in certain parts of the body, for example the intestines, stomach, respiratory tract, nose and lungs. This is what is most common what is less common is inflammation in the eyes or brain. The dogs can get this by coming into contact with urine, faeces and by coming into contact with other dogs that have the virus. If the dogs then sneeze or cough, the other dog can become infected.
4. Infectious Liver Disease: (HCC) Hepatitis Contagiosa Canis
The infectious liver disease is also called Hepatitis, it is an inflammation of the liver. It is an infectious virus that is related to distemper, every dog is sensitive to this, but young dogs under 1 year old are particularly sensitive to it. Dogs can get it by coming into contact with infected urine, feces, and saliva.
Vaccinations abroad
When you go abroad with your dog, you are obliged to get the vaccination(s) listed below.
Rabies
Rabies, also known as rabies, is rare in usa, which is why the chance of infection occurring in the United States is small. It is a different story abroad, because rabies is more common there. Rabies is a transmissible infectious virus (zoonosis), so people can also get it.
That is why dogs are vaccinated for rabies when they go abroad or come to usa from abroad. If the dog is not vaccinated or not vaccinated on time, it cannot enter or leave the country. This also applies to cats and ferrets. Rabies only occurs in the United States of America in bats, so watch out that your dog does not touch bats. That does not mean that every bat is infected or carrier of the rabies virus. Dogs can therefore contract rabies through an infected animal, biting, licking and scratching.
Obligation to report rabies
If an animal is suspected of rabies, there is a duty to report.
Vaccination for places where many dogs come together
These places include boarding houses, shows, walking services and dog training schools.
dog vaccination schedule
6 weeks:
Canine diseases
Parvo
9 weeks:
Parvo
Weil's disease
12 weeks:
Dog diseases
Weil diseases
Parvo
HCC
Years later:
Canine diseases
Weil diseases
Parvo
HCC
Vaccination schedule for dogs:
Annual:
Weil's disease
3-year vaccination:
Parvo
HCC
Canine diseases
What are the costs of a vaccination?
The costs of vaccinating a dog differ per vet, type of vaccination and size of the dog.
Deworm first and then vaccinate but why?
It is not only important that you keep a close eye on when the dog is vaccinated, but that it is also dewormed in time. For deworming, it is smart to deworm the dog two weeks before vaccination.
It has been found that worms have a certain inhibitory effect on the immune system, so that if you dewormed afterwards, the vaccine would have a lesser effect. By first deworming and then vaccinating, the body absorbs the vaccination well.
Titer determination
Nowadays, more and more veterinarians use a titer determination to determine how many antibodies a dog has against a certain disease. It is therefore possible that a dog does not need a new vaccination at all, because the body still has enough antibodies. How a titre determination works, and what the advantages are.