We don't do any vaccines on any of our dogs ourselves...I used to do them and I had a puppy that I had to have euthanized because of a vaccine reaction at 12 weeks old...She was a perfect puppy who had nothing wrong with her...We had a necropsy done to determine the cause of death...When the drug company was questioned they would not guarantee the vaccines because they do not sell the vaccines to Revival (at least that is what the drug company told us)...Revival gets the vaccines from another party...So many change of hands that we decided that the best way was to let our vet do the vaccines...
We start vaccines somewhere between 8 & 10 weeks old...We space vaccines out by three weeks so 8, 11 & 14 weeks at the earliest...If a puppy is very small we would wait longer...We worm puppies twice with Panacur once before the first vaccine and 3 weeks after that...We do NOT do both at the same time...I feel it is too hard on their systems, after all you are injecting part of the disease you are vaccinating for into your pup and then the body has to fight it off to develop an immunity...
Rabies vaccines we wait until closer to a year old...We like to see them more mature and better able to handle the vaccine (since it is a high incidence of reaction drug)...
Everyone has to make a educated decision and go from there...This is just what is working for us'!
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