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Originally Posted by I Love Bailey  You have to give your dog the rabies vacine as well as bordatella (kennel cough) if you take your dog outside, to the groomers or even to dog training your dog can catch it, it is very contagious and hard to cure. It can be fatal.
When animal shelters have animals that have it, they have to put all the animals down because they can never get rid of it.
Your vet can break the shots up, and bordatella can be given inhaled through the nose instead of a shot. |
Actually, nobody has to give bordatella. Some places won't let you board without it or get your dogs groomed. Some vets also insist on it. I groom Ellie myself and she is so sensitive to shots that the vet lets us bypass it if we need to hospitalize her. Bordatella inself is not a huge deal. It is just a cold. The problem with it is it can turn to pneumonia which is very dangerous. It is also very contagious. But then again, how do we know the shot given 1-2 times yearly is not just as dangerous in the long run?